The Dramatic Works With Notes Critical, Volume 1John Murray, 1827 |
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Page xxxvi
... language ; yet this was apparently the last of his dramatic labours , and here he suddenly disap- pears from view . Much as has been said of the dramatic poets of Elizabeth and James's days , full justice has never yet been rendered to ...
... language ; yet this was apparently the last of his dramatic labours , and here he suddenly disap- pears from view . Much as has been said of the dramatic poets of Elizabeth and James's days , full justice has never yet been rendered to ...
Page xxxviii
... language ; frequently , too , after perversely labouring with a remote idea till he has confused his meaning , instead of throwing it aside , he obtrudes it upon the reader involved in inextricable obscurity . Its excellencies , however ...
... language ; frequently , too , after perversely labouring with a remote idea till he has confused his meaning , instead of throwing it aside , he obtrudes it upon the reader involved in inextricable obscurity . Its excellencies , however ...
Page xxxix
... language - for in this he is equalled by his contemporaries , and , by some of them , sur- passed ; nor is it from any classical or mytholo- gical allusions happily recollected and skilfully applied , for of these he seldom avails ...
... language - for in this he is equalled by his contemporaries , and , by some of them , sur- passed ; nor is it from any classical or mytholo- gical allusions happily recollected and skilfully applied , for of these he seldom avails ...
Page xl
... we are indebted for the in- trusion of those ill - timed underplots , and those prurient snatches of language , which debase and pollute several of his best dramas . It saddens the heart to see a man , from whom nature xl INTRODUCTION .
... we are indebted for the in- trusion of those ill - timed underplots , and those prurient snatches of language , which debase and pollute several of his best dramas . It saddens the heart to see a man , from whom nature xl INTRODUCTION .
Page xlvi
... language of the stage - opposition is expe- rienced by every dramatic writer worth criticism , and has nothing in common with ordinary hostility . In truth , with the exception of an allusion to the " voluminous " and rancorous Prynne ...
... language of the stage - opposition is expe- rienced by every dramatic writer worth criticism , and has nothing in common with ordinary hostility . In truth , with the exception of an allusion to the " voluminous " and rancorous Prynne ...
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