Shakespeare's Comedy of A Midsummer-night's DreamHarper, 1883 - 195 pages |
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Page 13
... present us with any of their tragedies , because we had enough of that in ernest ; and comedies , because the vices of the age were too lively and smartly represented ; then all that we could divert ourselves with were these humours and ...
... present us with any of their tragedies , because we had enough of that in ernest ; and comedies , because the vices of the age were too lively and smartly represented ; then all that we could divert ourselves with were these humours and ...
Page 14
... present century the play has seldom been put upon the stage , and it is not likely that the experiment will be often repeated . As Hazlitt has said , " the Midsummer- Night's Dream , when acted , is converted from a delightful fiction ...
... present century the play has seldom been put upon the stage , and it is not likely that the experiment will be often repeated . As Hazlitt has said , " the Midsummer- Night's Dream , when acted , is converted from a delightful fiction ...
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... present day said that he regarded him rather as a metaphysician than a poet . In the Midsummer - Night's Dream alone , we should imagine , there is more sweetness and beauty of description than in the whole range of French poetry put ...
... present day said that he regarded him rather as a metaphysician than a poet . In the Midsummer - Night's Dream alone , we should imagine , there is more sweetness and beauty of description than in the whole range of French poetry put ...
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... presents to the imagination as un- expected and as remote from each other , as those of the boldest lyric ; while it has also that highest perfection of the lyric art , the pervading unity of the poetic spirit - that con- tinued glow of ...
... presents to the imagination as un- expected and as remote from each other , as those of the boldest lyric ; while it has also that highest perfection of the lyric art , the pervading unity of the poetic spirit - that con- tinued glow of ...
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... present it . The critics have , indeed , been dis- posed to limit the praise of truth and nature , in this part of the play , to the portraiture of green - room jealousies or van- ity , such as the Poet might have observed in his own ...
... present it . The critics have , indeed , been dis- posed to limit the praise of truth and nature , in this part of the play , to the portraiture of green - room jealousies or van- ity , such as the Poet might have observed in his own ...
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