The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Volume 6J. M. Dent and Sons, Limited, 1931 |
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Page 89
... Stage , frightened the poets , and did all he could to spoil the stage , by pretending to reform it ; that is , by making it an echo of the pulpit , instead of a reflection of the manners of the world . He complains bitterly of the ...
... Stage , frightened the poets , and did all he could to spoil the stage , by pretending to reform it ; that is , by making it an echo of the pulpit , instead of a reflection of the manners of the world . He complains bitterly of the ...
Page 90
... stage shews vice its own image , scorn its own feature , ' unless they are damned at the same instant , and carried off ( like Don Juan ) by real devils to the infernal regions , before the faces of the spectators . It seems that the ...
... stage shews vice its own image , scorn its own feature , ' unless they are damned at the same instant , and carried off ( like Don Juan ) by real devils to the infernal regions , before the faces of the spectators . It seems that the ...
Page 246
... stage by some buskined hero or tragedy - queen . In this respect , indeed , some of his more obscure contemporaries have the advantage over Shakespear himself , inasmuch as we have never seen their works represented on the stage ; and ...
... stage by some buskined hero or tragedy - queen . In this respect , indeed , some of his more obscure contemporaries have the advantage over Shakespear himself , inasmuch as we have never seen their works represented on the stage ; and ...
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