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Page 44
... shew the Faults and Absurdities which are to be found in this Tragedy . Secondly , I shall attempt to expose the Artifices which made way for its great Success . First , I shall endeavour to shew its Faults and Absurdities , and here I ...
... shew the Faults and Absurdities which are to be found in this Tragedy . Secondly , I shall attempt to expose the Artifices which made way for its great Success . First , I shall endeavour to shew its Faults and Absurdities , and here I ...
Page 167
... shew the great Refinement of their Taste . If the general Taste were improv'd , two things would certainly follow , good Plays would be writ , and damn'd ones would not be endured . But Shake- spear's Plays you will say were crowded ...
... shew the great Refinement of their Taste . If the general Taste were improv'd , two things would certainly follow , good Plays would be writ , and damn'd ones would not be endured . But Shake- spear's Plays you will say were crowded ...
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... shew Horace's Sense exactly , yet shew my Lord Roscommon's ; which is of no small weight . Yet , after all , Sir John , to shew you that I am neither a Bigot , nor a Slave to the Rules , my Opinion is , That whereas the Rules are only ...
... shew Horace's Sense exactly , yet shew my Lord Roscommon's ; which is of no small weight . Yet , after all , Sir John , to shew you that I am neither a Bigot , nor a Slave to the Rules , my Opinion is , That whereas the Rules are only ...
Contents
Introduction | vii |
An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Shakespear 1712 | 1 |
To the Spectator on Poetical Justice 1712 | 18 |
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