Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of WindsorC. Bathurst, 1773 |
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... criticism is to find the faults of the moderns , and the beauties of the ancients . While an author is yet living , we estimate his powers by his worst performance ; and when he is dead , we rate them by his best . [ A ] VOL . I. To To ...
... criticism is to find the faults of the moderns , and the beauties of the ancients . While an author is yet living , we estimate his powers by his worst performance ; and when he is dead , we rate them by his best . [ A ] VOL . I. To To ...
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... criticism to nature . The end of writing is to inftruct ; the end of poetry is to in- struct by pleasing . That the mingled drama may convey all the inftruction of tragedy or comedy can- not be denied , because it includes both in its ...
... criticism to nature . The end of writing is to inftruct ; the end of poetry is to in- struct by pleasing . That the mingled drama may convey all the inftruction of tragedy or comedy can- not be denied , because it includes both in its ...
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... criticism of that age was satisfied , whatever lighter pleasure it afforded in its progress . Hiftory was a series of actions , with no other than chronological fucceffion , independent on each other , and without any tendency to ...
... criticism of that age was satisfied , whatever lighter pleasure it afforded in its progress . Hiftory was a series of actions , with no other than chronological fucceffion , independent on each other , and without any tendency to ...
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... criticisms of Rhymer and Voltaire vanish away , The play of Hamlet is opened , without impropriety , by two centinels ; Iago bellows at Brabantio's window , without injury to the scheme of the play , though in terms which a modern ...
... criticisms of Rhymer and Voltaire vanish away , The play of Hamlet is opened , without impropriety , by two centinels ; Iago bellows at Brabantio's window , without injury to the scheme of the play , though in terms which a modern ...
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... to the minute and flender criticism of Voltaire : Non ufque adeo permifcuit imis Longus fumma dies , ut non , fi voce Metelli Serventur leges , malint a Cæfare tolli . Yet Yet when I speak thus flightly of dramatick rules , PRE F A C E.
... to the minute and flender criticism of Voltaire : Non ufque adeo permifcuit imis Longus fumma dies , ut non , fi voce Metelli Serventur leges , malint a Cæfare tolli . Yet Yet when I speak thus flightly of dramatick rules , PRE F A C E.
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