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Life of Edmond Malone, Editor of Shakespeare: With Selections from His ... - Page 169
by Sir James Prior - 1860 - 476 pages
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Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review, Volume 83, Part 1

Early English newspapers - 1813 - 778 pages
...periods to the taste and disposition of mankind. The Stage indeed may be considered as tbe republick of active literature, and its history as the history...history, when not combined with the same helps towards tbe study of the manners and characters of men, must be a study of an inferior nature. " You have taken...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 578 pages
...eulogists terms, " a most elegant comedy, the Whore of Babylon8." " It is of all things (says Burke) the most instructive, to see not only the reflection...Literature, and its history as the history of that state." Under these impressions the Editor has committed two of these singular productions to the press; in...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 580 pages
...periods to the taste and disposition of mankind. The stage indeed may be considered as the repuhlic of active Literature, and its history as the history of that state." Under these impressions the Editor has committed two of these singular productions to the press; in...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 12

Books - 1825 - 368 pages
...of all things the most instructive, to see, not only the reflections of manners, and characters of several periods, but the modes of making their reflection,...literature, and its history, as the history of that state. In our own times, we find how closely it is connected with the prevailing taste and fashion, and there...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 12

Books - 1825 - 368 pages
...of all things the most instructive, to see, not only the reflections of manners, and characters of several periods, but the modes of making their reflection,...literature, and its history, as the history of that state. In our own times, we find how closely it is connected with the prevailing taste and fashion, and there...
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The Retrospective Review, and Historical and Antiquarian Magazine, Volume 12

1825 - 364 pages
...of all things the most instructive, to see, not only the reflections of manners, and characters of several periods, but the modes of making their reflection,...literature, and its history, as the history of that state. In our own times, we find how closely it is connected with the prevailing taste and fashion, and there...
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A Defence of the Stage: Or An Enquiry Into the Real Qualities of Theatrical ...

John William Cole - Theater - 1839 - 194 pages
...reflection, and the manner of adapting it at those periods to the taste and disposition of mankind. The Stage may be considered as the republic of active literature, and its history as the history of that state." LORD KAMES, in his "Elements of Criticism," says, in speaking of tragic writing, " Many are the good...
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A defence of the stage, or An inquiry into the real qualities of theatrical ...

John William Cole - 1839 - 192 pages
...reflection, and the manner of adapting it at those periods to the taste and disposition of mankind. The Stage may be considered as the republic of active literature, and its history as the history of that state." LORD KAMES, in his "Elements of Criticism," says, in speaking of tragic writing, " Many are the good...
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The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal, Volume 55

1860 - 910 pages
...overrule my curiosity, nor to prevent me from going through almost the whole of your able. ежас1, and interesting history of the stage. " A history...combined with the same helps towards the study of the manntrs and characters i оба] [April, the water wap and the waves wanne.' ' Ah, traitor, untrue...
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Biography of Sir Thomas Stucley. The famous history of the life and death of ...

Richard Simpson - 1878 - 470 pages
...connection must exist when, congratulating Malone on his history of the stage, he wrote : " The stage may be considered as the republic of active literature,...characters of men, must be a study of an inferior nature." It cannot however be granted that Malone, or his successor Mr (Jollier, has succeeded in raising the...
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