The Plays of William Shakespeare, Volumul 1A. Leathley, 1766 |
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Pagina ii
... mind contemplates genius through the shades of age , as the eye furveys the fun through artificial opacity . The great contention of criticism is to find the faults of the moderns , and the beauties of the ancients . While an authour is ...
... mind contemplates genius through the shades of age , as the eye furveys the fun through artificial opacity . The great contention of criticism is to find the faults of the moderns , and the beauties of the ancients . While an authour is ...
Pagina iv
... mind can only repofe on the ftability of truth . Shakespeare is above all writers , at least above all modern writers , the poet of nature ; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirrour of manners and of life . His ...
... mind can only repofe on the ftability of truth . Shakespeare is above all writers , at least above all modern writers , the poet of nature ; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirrour of manners and of life . His ...
Pagina viii
... mind but in one compo- fition . Almost all his plays are divided between serious and ludicrous characters , and , in the fucceffive evolu- tions of the defign , fometimes produce seriousness and forrow , and fometimes levity and ...
... mind but in one compo- fition . Almost all his plays are divided between serious and ludicrous characters , and , in the fucceffive evolu- tions of the defign , fometimes produce seriousness and forrow , and fometimes levity and ...
Pagina x
... mind is foftened at one time , and exhilarated at ano- ther . But whatever be his purpose , whether to gladden or deprefs , or to conduct the story , without vehemence or emotion , through tracts of eafy and familiar dia- logue , he ...
... mind is foftened at one time , and exhilarated at ano- ther . But whatever be his purpose , whether to gladden or deprefs , or to conduct the story , without vehemence or emotion , through tracts of eafy and familiar dia- logue , he ...
Pagina xv
... mind , are checked and blafted by fudden frigidity . A quibble is to Shakespeare , what luminous vapours are to the traveller ; he follows it at all adventures , it is fure to lead him out of his way , and fure to engulf him in the mire ...
... mind , are checked and blafted by fudden frigidity . A quibble is to Shakespeare , what luminous vapours are to the traveller ; he follows it at all adventures , it is fure to lead him out of his way , and fure to engulf him in the mire ...
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