Critical Observations on ShakespeareG. Hawkins, 1746 - 346 páginas |
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... story told of Alex- ander the cruel tyrant of Pherae in Theffaly , who seeing a famous tragedian act the Troades of Euripides , was fo fenfibly touch'd , that he left the theatre before the play was ended ; being afhamed , as he owned ...
... story told of Alex- ander the cruel tyrant of Pherae in Theffaly , who seeing a famous tragedian act the Troades of Euripides , was fo fenfibly touch'd , that he left the theatre before the play was ended ; being afhamed , as he owned ...
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... stories are finely calcu- lated to raise the tragical paffions , grief , pity , and terror . ' Tis fomewhat ftrange , at the first thought , that people fhould take any kind of delight to fee scenes of diftrefs : yet even fhipwrecks and ...
... stories are finely calcu- lated to raise the tragical paffions , grief , pity , and terror . ' Tis fomewhat ftrange , at the first thought , that people fhould take any kind of delight to fee scenes of diftrefs : yet even fhipwrecks and ...
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... fuppofed diurnal motion ] or to exceed it as little as may be : the epopaeia is unlimited as to time . Arif . περὶ ποιητ . κεφ . ε . The Book 1 . The story therefore ( which is the Sect . 9 . 73 on SHAKESPEARE . SECT. IX. ...
... fuppofed diurnal motion ] or to exceed it as little as may be : the epopaeia is unlimited as to time . Arif . περὶ ποιητ . κεφ . ε . The Book 1 . The story therefore ( which is the Sect . 9 . 73 on SHAKESPEARE . SECT. IX. ...
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John Upton. Book 1 . The story therefore ( which is the principal part , and as it were the very foul of tragedy ) being made a whole , with natural dependance and con- nexion ; the spectator feldom confiders the 2 length of time ...
John Upton. Book 1 . The story therefore ( which is the principal part , and as it were the very foul of tragedy ) being made a whole , with natural dependance and con- nexion ; the spectator feldom confiders the 2 length of time ...
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John Upton. pleases him , and carries on the thread of his story . This perpetual varying and shifting the Scene , is a conftant caufe of offence to many who set up for admirers of the ancients . 3 Johnson , who thought 3. In his ...
John Upton. pleases him , and carries on the thread of his story . This perpetual varying and shifting the Scene , is a conftant caufe of offence to many who set up for admirers of the ancients . 3 Johnson , who thought 3. In his ...
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Página 125 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No.- Doth he hear it? No. Is it insensible then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? No. Why? Detraction will not suffer it: — therefore I'll none of it: Honour is a mere scutcheon, and so ends my catechism.
Página 125 - tis no matter; Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on ? how then ? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound ? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is honour? A word. What is in that word, honour? What is that honour? Air. A trim reckoning ! — Who hath it? He that died o
Página 216 - Are brought ; and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce, From beds of raging fire to starve in ice...
Página 76 - ... then we are to blame if we accept it not for a rock. Upon the back of that comes out a hideous monster with fire and smoke, and then the miserable beholders are bound to take it for a cave. While in the meantime two armies fly in, represented with four swords and bucklers, and then what hard heart will not receive it for a pitched field?
Página 20 - ... apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another, not in the jingling sound of like endings, — a fault avoided by the learned ancients both in poetry and all good oratory.
Página 95 - His wit was in his own power; would the rule of it had been so too. Many times he fell into those things could not escape laughter; as when he said in the person of Caesar, one speaking to him, "Caesar, thou dost me wrong," he replied, "Caesar did never wrong but with just cause"; and such like, which were ridiculous.
Página 245 - Ay, now am I in Arden ; the more fool I : when I was at home, I was in a better place : but travellers must be content.
Página 138 - Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking-off...
Página 18 - And afterwards he came out of his concealment, and lived many years much visited by all strangers, and much admired by all at home, for the poems he wrote, though he was then blind, chiefly that of Paradise Lost, in which there is a nobleness both of contrivance and execution, that, though he affected to write in blank verse, without rhyme, and made many new and rough words...
Página 76 - ... not receive it for a pitched field? Now of time they are much more liberal ; for ordinary it is, that two young princes fall in love ; after many traverses she is got with child; delivered of a fair boy; he is lost, groweth a man, falleth in love, and is ready to get another child ; and all this in two hours...