The Critical Works of John Dennis, 2. köideJohns Hopkins Press, 1943 |
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... Character is resembling : To that I answer , That the Poet either ought not to have brought that Character on the Stage , or to have sunk that Quality , or those Qualities in it which made the Manners inconvenient . As the Character of ...
... Character is resembling : To that I answer , That the Poet either ought not to have brought that Character on the Stage , or to have sunk that Quality , or those Qualities in it which made the Manners inconvenient . As the Character of ...
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... Character of his Poem , like all the rest of his Characters , and like the Poetical Action , at the bottom , Uni- versal and Allegorical , even after distinguishing it by a particular Name , by making this principal Character at the ...
... Character of his Poem , like all the rest of his Characters , and like the Poetical Action , at the bottom , Uni- versal and Allegorical , even after distinguishing it by a particular Name , by making this principal Character at the ...
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John Dennis Edward Niles Hooker. not a Mercer set up for the Character of being Judicious , in the nature and fashion of Stuffs and Silks , and Brocades ? Does not a Stock - Jobber , or an Exchange Broker set up for the Character of ...
John Dennis Edward Niles Hooker. not a Mercer set up for the Character of being Judicious , in the nature and fashion of Stuffs and Silks , and Brocades ? Does not a Stock - Jobber , or an Exchange Broker set up for the Character of ...
Contents
Introduction | vii |
An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Shakespear 1712 | 1 |
Appendix excerpts and miscellaneousContinued X From the Prologue to Gibraltar 1705 | 39 |
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