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" Even where the agency is supernatural the dialogue is level with life. Other writers disguise the most natural passions and most frequent incidents; so that he who contemplates them in the book will not know them in the world... "
Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare - Page 103
edited by - 1903 - 358 pages
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Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose, Selected ...

Vicesimus Knox - 1790 - 1058 pages
...is level with life. Other writers difguife the mod natural parlions and molt frequent incidents; fo that he who contemplates them in the book will not know them in the world: Shakefpeare approximates the remote, and familiarizes the wonderful ; the event which he represents...
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The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections ...

William Shakespeare - 1793 - 860 pages
...level with life. Other writers difguife the moft natural paffions and moft frequent incidents ; fo that he who contemplates them in the book will not know them in the world: Shakfpeare approximates the remote, and familiarizes the wonderful ; the event which he reprefents...
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The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for ...

1793 - 620 pages
...level with life. Other writers difguife the moil natural paffions and moil frequent incidents ; io that he who contemplates them in the book, will not know them in the world : Shakefpeare approximates the remote, and familiarizes the wonderful ; the event which he represents...
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Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts ..., Volume 17, Part 1

Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 442 pages
...with life. Other writers difuuife the moil natuial paffions and molt frequent incidents ; fo thr.t he who contemplates them in the book will not know them in the w.or!d : Shakefpeare approximates the remote, and familiarizes the wonderful ; the event which he rcpvxlcnts...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 454 pages
...level with life. Other writers difguife the ' moft natural paffions and moft' frequent incidents ; fo that he who contemplates them in the book will not know them in the world: Shakefpeare approximates the remote, and familiarizes the wonderful; tlie event which he reprefents...
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Annual Register of World Events, Volume 8

1802 - 630 pages
...is level with life. Other writers difguife the mod natural pallions and mull frequent incidents; fo that he who contemplates them in the book, will not know them in the world: Shakefpeare approximates the remote, and familiarizes the wonderful; the event which he reprefenis...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1803 - 494 pages
...Shakspeare has no heroes ; his scenes are occupied only by men, who act and speak as the reader thinks that he should himself have spoken or acted on the same...contemplates them in the book will not know them in the world : Shakspeare approximates the remote, and familiarizes the wonderful; the event which he represents...
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The Plays of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Samuel Johnson - 1803 - 542 pages
...level with life. Other writers difguife the moft natural paffions and moft frequent incidents ; fo that he who contemplates them in the book will not know them in the world : Shakfpeare approximates the remote, and familiarizes the wonderful ; the event which he reprefents...
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The Dramatick Works of William Shakespeare: Printed Complete, with D. Samuel ...

William Shakespeare - 1802 - 422 pages
...level with life. Other writers difguife the moft natural paffions and moft frequent incidents ; fo that he who contemplates them in the book will not know them in the world : Shakefpeare approximates th« remote, and familiarizes the wonderful ; the event which he reprefents...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: With Notes of Various Commentators, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1806 - 394 pages
...Shakspeare has no heroes ; his scenes are occupied only by men who act and speak as the reader thinks that he should himself have spoken or acted on the same...contemplates them in the book will not know them in the world : Shakspeare approximates the remote, and familiarizes the wonderful ; the event which he represents...
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