Anecdotes of Polite Literature ...G. Burnet, 1764 |
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... genius to fill his piece with a single fact ; and if he employs two days , and takes in two towns for the scene of action , be affured it is because he had not the addrefs to confine it to the fpace of three hours , and within the li ...
... genius to fill his piece with a single fact ; and if he employs two days , and takes in two towns for the scene of action , be affured it is because he had not the addrefs to confine it to the fpace of three hours , and within the li ...
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... genius . Hence , his fentiments spring from motives exqui fitely fitted to produce them : to this they owe that original fpirit , that com- manding energy , which overcome the im probabilities of the fcene ; and tranf port the heart in ...
... genius . Hence , his fentiments spring from motives exqui fitely fitted to produce them : to this they owe that original fpirit , that com- manding energy , which overcome the im probabilities of the fcene ; and tranf port the heart in ...
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... , was a cool tame genius : in none of his pieces are we hurried away by the poetic fire ; no hafty ftrokes of Webb's Remarks on the Beauties of Poetry , Po 105 , true true paffion , which lay open the very foul ; ( 12 )
... , was a cool tame genius : in none of his pieces are we hurried away by the poetic fire ; no hafty ftrokes of Webb's Remarks on the Beauties of Poetry , Po 105 , true true paffion , which lay open the very foul ; ( 12 )
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... is , fuch execution is too delicate for an ordinary genius ; and for that reason , the bulk of writers , inftead of expreffing a paffion like one honesty to expofe his countrymen's ab- furdity with great fpirit ( 3 )
... is , fuch execution is too delicate for an ordinary genius ; and for that reason , the bulk of writers , inftead of expreffing a paffion like one honesty to expofe his countrymen's ab- furdity with great fpirit ( 3 )
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... genius , are no more than , talkers ; and their fucceffor is the first of all the French poets , who , in imitation of the English , has fometimes ventured to bring fcenes of action upon the ftage . In ་ In common , their plays confift ...
... genius , are no more than , talkers ; and their fucceffor is the first of all the French poets , who , in imitation of the English , has fometimes ventured to bring fcenes of action upon the ftage . In ་ In common , their plays confift ...
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