The plays of William Shakespeare, Band 1J. Johnson, 1805 |
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... drama of which he had set the example , and may be considered as the founder . If we wonder why we know so much less of Shakspeare than of his contemporaries , let us recollect that his genius , however highly and justly we now rate it ...
... drama of which he had set the example , and may be considered as the founder . If we wonder why we know so much less of Shakspeare than of his contemporaries , let us recollect that his genius , however highly and justly we now rate it ...
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... drama , " in which almost every original beauty is either aukwardly disguised , or arbitrarily omitted . " * In fifty years after his death , Dryden mentions that he was then become " a little obsolete . " In the beginning of the last ...
... drama , " in which almost every original beauty is either aukwardly disguised , or arbitrarily omitted . " * In fifty years after his death , Dryden mentions that he was then become " a little obsolete . " In the beginning of the last ...
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... drama is the mirror of life ; that he who has mazed his imagination , in following the phantoms which other writers raise up be- fore him , may here be cured of his delirious ecstasies , by reading human sentiments in human language ...
... drama is the mirror of life ; that he who has mazed his imagination , in following the phantoms which other writers raise up be- fore him , may here be cured of his delirious ecstasies , by reading human sentiments in human language ...
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... end of writing is to instruct ; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing . That the mingled drama may convey all the instruction of tragedy or comedy cannot be denied , because it includes both in 6 DR . JOHNSON'S PREFACE .
... end of writing is to instruct ; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing . That the mingled drama may convey all the instruction of tragedy or comedy cannot be denied , because it includes both in 6 DR . JOHNSON'S PREFACE .
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... the history of Richard the Second . But a history might be continued through many plays ; as it had no plan , it had no limits . Through all these denominations of the drama , Shakspeare's mode DR . JOHNSON'S PREFACE . 7.
... the history of Richard the Second . But a history might be continued through many plays ; as it had no plan , it had no limits . Through all these denominations of the drama , Shakspeare's mode DR . JOHNSON'S PREFACE . 7.
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