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Page 342
... passion in Shakespeare , or in Fletcher : for love - scenes , you will find few among them ; their tragic poets dealt not with that soft passion , but with lust , cruelty , revenge , ambition , and those bloody actions they produced ...
... passion in Shakespeare , or in Fletcher : for love - scenes , you will find few among them ; their tragic poets dealt not with that soft passion , but with lust , cruelty , revenge , ambition , and those bloody actions they produced ...
Page 357
... passions , I wish any example he could bring from them would make it good ; for I confess their verses are to me the coldest I have ever read . Neither , indeed , is it possible for them , in the way they take , so to express passion ...
... passions , I wish any example he could bring from them would make it good ; for I confess their verses are to me the coldest I have ever read . Neither , indeed , is it possible for them , in the way they take , so to express passion ...
Page 396
... passion like Narcissus ? Would he think of inopem me copia fecit [ Plenty made me poor ] , and a dozen more of such ... passions always to be shunned , because passions are serious , and will admit no playing . The French have a high ...
... passion like Narcissus ? Would he think of inopem me copia fecit [ Plenty made me poor ] , and a dozen more of such ... passions always to be shunned , because passions are serious , and will admit no playing . The French have a high ...
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