An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespeare: Compared with the Greek and French Dramatic Poets; with Some Remarks Upon the Misrepresentations of Mons. de VoltaireHarding, 1810 - 296 من الصفحات |
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... , coarse in their style , and crowded with trivial anec- dotes . No Tacitus had investigated the obliquities of our statesmen , or , by diving into into the profound secrets of policy , had dragged into 46 ON THE HISTORICAL DRAMA .
... , coarse in their style , and crowded with trivial anec- dotes . No Tacitus had investigated the obliquities of our statesmen , or , by diving into into the profound secrets of policy , had dragged into 46 ON THE HISTORICAL DRAMA .
الصفحة 62
... Tacitus , who , in a few words , sets before us the insolence , the profligacy , and rapaciousness of a set of ministers , encouraged by the weakness of the prince to attempt whatever they wished , and incited by his age to snatch by ...
... Tacitus , who , in a few words , sets before us the insolence , the profligacy , and rapaciousness of a set of ministers , encouraged by the weakness of the prince to attempt whatever they wished , and incited by his age to snatch by ...
الصفحة 63
... Tacitus are ingrafted into the dia- logues , but , from a change of persons and circumstances , they lose much of their ori- ginal force and beauty . Galba addresses to his niece , who is in love with Otho , the fine speech which the ...
... Tacitus are ingrafted into the dia- logues , but , from a change of persons and circumstances , they lose much of their ori- ginal force and beauty . Galba addresses to his niece , who is in love with Otho , the fine speech which the ...
الصفحة 64
... Tacitus with- out imbibing one spark of his spirit ; to translate whole speeches , yet preserve no likeness in the characters ; is surely betray- ing a great deficiency of dramatic powers , and of the art of imitation . To represent the ...
... Tacitus with- out imbibing one spark of his spirit ; to translate whole speeches , yet preserve no likeness in the characters ; is surely betray- ing a great deficiency of dramatic powers , and of the art of imitation . To represent the ...
الصفحة 65
... characters borrowed from so great a portrait - painter as Tacitus , let us now see what Shakspeare has done , from those awkward originals , our old chro- nicles . F THE THE FIRST PART OF HENRY IV . F 2 THE ON THE HISTORICAL DRAMA . 65.
... characters borrowed from so great a portrait - painter as Tacitus , let us now see what Shakspeare has done , from those awkward originals , our old chro- nicles . F THE THE FIRST PART OF HENRY IV . F 2 THE ON THE HISTORICAL DRAMA . 65.
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