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The one gives fair - play to nature and his own genius , while the other trusts almost entirely to imitation and custom . Shakspeare takes his groundwork in individual character and the manners of his age , and raises from them a ...
The one gives fair - play to nature and his own genius , while the other trusts almost entirely to imitation and custom . Shakspeare takes his groundwork in individual character and the manners of his age , and raises from them a ...
Page 106
( We find there a close imitation of men and manners ; we see the very web and texture of society as it really exists , and as we meet with it when we come into the world . If poetry has something more divine in it , ' this savours more ...
( We find there a close imitation of men and manners ; we see the very web and texture of society as it really exists , and as we meet with it when we come into the world . If poetry has something more divine in it , ' this savours more ...
Page 258
The subsequent acts are confessedly Fletcher's , and the imitations of Shakespear which occur there ( not of Shakespear's manner as differing from his , but as it was congenial to his own spirit and feeling of nature ) are glorious in ...
The subsequent acts are confessedly Fletcher's , and the imitations of Shakespear which occur there ( not of Shakespear's manner as differing from his , but as it was congenial to his own spirit and feeling of nature ) are glorious in ...
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| Title | The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Volume 6 The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Percival Presland Howe |
| Author | William Hazlitt |
| Editors | Percival Presland Howe, Alfred Rayney Waller, Arnold Glover |
| Compiled by | James Thornton |
| Publisher | J. M. Dent and Sons, Limited, 1931 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 16 Jul 2007 |
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