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 oldal |
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x. oldal
... laws of drama would make a good tragedy , though it might prevent a poet more bold than judicious , from writing a very absurd one . A painter can define the just proportion of the human body , and the anato- mist knows what muscles ...
... laws of drama would make a good tragedy , though it might prevent a poet more bold than judicious , from writing a very absurd one . A painter can define the just proportion of the human body , and the anato- mist knows what muscles ...
xi. oldal
... laws of one country , who lived under those of another . -Heaven - born genius acts from something superior to rules , and antecedent to rules ; and has a right of ap- peal to nature herself . Great indulgence is due to the errors of ...
... laws of one country , who lived under those of another . -Heaven - born genius acts from something superior to rules , and antecedent to rules ; and has a right of ap- peal to nature herself . Great indulgence is due to the errors of ...
xv. oldal
... law of mechanics they were raised ? Like them , our Author's works will remain for ever the greatest monuments of ... laws ; nor is it more equitable to judge him entirely by the practice of any particular theatre . Yet some criterion ...
... law of mechanics they were raised ? Like them , our Author's works will remain for ever the greatest monuments of ... laws ; nor is it more equitable to judge him entirely by the practice of any particular theatre . Yet some criterion ...
xviii. oldal
... laws : happily for Shakspeare , Mr. Johnson , whose genius and learning render him superior to a servile awe of pedantic institutions , in his in genious preface to his edition of Shakspeare , has well obviated all that can be objected ...
... laws : happily for Shakspeare , Mr. Johnson , whose genius and learning render him superior to a servile awe of pedantic institutions , in his in genious preface to his edition of Shakspeare , has well obviated all that can be objected ...
48. oldal
... laws , She did corrupt frail nature with some bribe To shrink my arm like to a wither'd shrub ; To make an envious mountain on my back , Where sits deformity to mock my body ; To shape my legs of an uneven size ; To disproportion me in ...
... laws , She did corrupt frail nature with some bribe To shrink my arm like to a wither'd shrub ; To make an envious mountain on my back , Where sits deformity to mock my body ; To shape my legs of an uneven size ; To disproportion me in ...
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231. oldal - Would he were fatter ! But I fear him not : Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much ; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men...
238. oldal - Which, like dumb mouths, do ope their ruby lips, To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue — A curse shall light upon the limbs of men ; Domestic fury and fierce civil strife Shall cumber all the parts of Italy...
173. oldal - It will have blood, they say ; blood will have blood : Stones have been known to move, and trees to speak ; Augurs, and understood relations, have By magot-pies, and choughs, and rooks, brought forth The secret'st man of blood.
240. oldal - When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept. Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says, he was ambitious ; And Brutus is an honourable man. You all did see, that, on the Lupercal, I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse.
226. oldal - Many a time and oft Have you climb'd up to walls and battlements, To towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops, Your infants in your arms, and there have sat The live-long day, with patient expectation, To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome...
244. oldal - I tell you that which you yourselves do know; Show you sweet Caesar's wounds, poor poor dumb mouths, And bid them speak for me: but were I Brutus, And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony Would ruffle up your spirits and put a tongue In every wound of Caesar that should move The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.
148. oldal - I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul ; freeze thy young blood ; Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres ; Thy knotted and combined locks to part ; And each particular hair to stand an end. Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood.
237. oldal - He only, in a general honest thought, And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man!
239. oldal - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil, that men do, lives after them ; The good is oft interred with their bones : So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus Hath told you, Caesar was ambitious : If it were so, it was a grievous fault, And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it. Here, under leave of Brutus, and the rest, (For Brutus- is an honorable man ; So are they all, all honorable men) Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral.
240. oldal - Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest, For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men; Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral. He was my friend, faithful and just to me: But Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man.