The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Band 33R. Griffiths, 1765 |
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... fufficient ease and perfpicuity , and is rendered stiff by the formality of compound epithets . The speech of Venus we shall felect as a specimen , as well for the entertainment of our Readers , as be- cause that , in our opinion ...
... fufficient ease and perfpicuity , and is rendered stiff by the formality of compound epithets . The speech of Venus we shall felect as a specimen , as well for the entertainment of our Readers , as be- cause that , in our opinion ...
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... fufficient to entitle him to the largest reward offered by par- liament for the discovery of the longitude . The first who attempted making a time - piece for discovering the longitude at sea , was the celebrated M. Huygens of Zuli ...
... fufficient to entitle him to the largest reward offered by par- liament for the discovery of the longitude . The first who attempted making a time - piece for discovering the longitude at sea , was the celebrated M. Huygens of Zuli ...
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... fufficient degree of accuracy . It was now thought necessary to have recourse to experience , and accordingly Mr. Harrison's machine , in the year 1736 , was put on board a man of war , and by its exact measure of time , in the ship's ...
... fufficient degree of accuracy . It was now thought necessary to have recourse to experience , and accordingly Mr. Harrison's machine , in the year 1736 , was put on board a man of war , and by its exact measure of time , in the ship's ...
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... fufficient reason , on Mr. Pitt's declining to take any part in the present political manœuvres . • But these young gentlemen , who have never appeared on any flage before , in order to conciliate to themselves the good opinion of the ...
... fufficient reason , on Mr. Pitt's declining to take any part in the present political manœuvres . • But these young gentlemen , who have never appeared on any flage before , in order to conciliate to themselves the good opinion of the ...
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... fufficient to contain them . They poured , therefore , their increasing numbers into the neighbouring countries , and that with such rapidity , that , at the time of Christ's birth , there was scarcely a province in the empire , where ...
... fufficient to contain them . They poured , therefore , their increasing numbers into the neighbouring countries , and that with such rapidity , that , at the time of Christ's birth , there was scarcely a province in the empire , where ...
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Seite 286 - To bring a lover, a lady, and a rival into the fable; to entangle them in...
Seite 287 - It is objected that by this change of scenes the passions are interrupted in their progression, and that the principal event, being not advanced by a due gradation of preparatory incidents, wants at last the power to move which constitutes the perfection of dramatic poetry.
Seite 287 - A quibble is the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight that he was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world and was content to lose it.
Seite 377 - He has scenes of undoubted and perpetual excellence, but perhaps not one play, which, if it were now exhibited as the work of a contemporary writer, would be heard to the conclusion.
Seite 218 - Never was any of her sex born with better gifts of the mind, or who more improved them by reading and conversation. Yet her memory was not of the best, and was impaired in the latter years of her life. But I cannot call to mind that I ever once heard her make a wrong judgment of persons, books, or affairs. Her advice was always the best, and with the greatest freedom, mixed with the greatest decency. She had a gracefulness, somewhat more than human, in every motion, word, and action.
Seite 287 - Shakespeare, that his drama is the mirror of life; that he who has mazed his imagination, in following the phantoms which other writers raise up before him, may here be cured of his delirious ecstasies, by reading human sentiments in human language; by scenes from which a hermit may estimate the transactions of the world, and a confessor predict the progress of the passions.
Seite 286 - But love is only one of many passions, and as it has no great influence upon the sum of life, it has little operation in the dramas of a poet, who caught his ideas from the living world, and exhibited only what he saw before him. He knew, that any other passion, as it was regular or exorbitant, was a cause of happiness or calamity.
Seite 285 - 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 characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised by the rest of the world; by the peculiarities of studies or professions, which can operate but upon small numbers; or by the accidents of transient fashions or temporary opinions: they...
Seite 289 - He has not, indeed, an intrigue regularly perplexed and regularly unravelled ; he does not endeavour to hide his design only to discover it, for this is seldom the order of real events, and Shakespeare...
Seite 288 - ... how much his stores of knowledge could supply, he seldom escapes without the pity or resentment of his reader.