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Old Plays; Being a Continuation of Dodsley's Collection, Vol. 1 of 6: With Notes, Critical and Explanatory (Classic Reprint)

Old Plays; Being a Continuation of Dodsley's Collection, Vol. 1 of 6: With Notes, Critical and Explanatory (Classic Reprint)

Charles Wentworth Dilke
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Excerpt from Old Plays; Being a Continuation of Dodsley's Collection, Vol. 1 of 6: With Notes, Critical and Explanatory

While the dramatic writers of other nations, {nodelling themselves on excellence that had received the applauding testimony of ages, sunk into cold formality, tricked up in stately diction and wordy sentiment, the vigorous and unrestrained genius of our own, opened a rich and unexplored mine in the depths of human passion and human feeling the heart was the subject of their examination, and its strange and inward workings the ma chinery which they delighted to employ: they removed the film that obscures our nature, and penetrated at once into the secret recesses of the bosom thus intimate with the springs of action, they never laboured to depict the pro gress of the passion; they struck at once the chord which vibrated to the heart, and left the rest to imagination and feeling. They were phi losophers, too, and that of the highest order: philosophy was with them what Milton de scribes it.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Pages
402
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Paperback
Publisher
Forgotten Books
Release
December 22, 2018
ISBN
1330448219
ISBN 13
9781330448212

Old Plays; Being a Continuation of Dodsley's Collection, Vol. 1 of 6: With Notes, Critical and Explanatory (Classic Reprint)

Charles Wentworth Dilke
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Excerpt from Old Plays; Being a Continuation of Dodsley's Collection, Vol. 1 of 6: With Notes, Critical and Explanatory

While the dramatic writers of other nations, {nodelling themselves on excellence that had received the applauding testimony of ages, sunk into cold formality, tricked up in stately diction and wordy sentiment, the vigorous and unrestrained genius of our own, opened a rich and unexplored mine in the depths of human passion and human feeling the heart was the subject of their examination, and its strange and inward workings the ma chinery which they delighted to employ: they removed the film that obscures our nature, and penetrated at once into the secret recesses of the bosom thus intimate with the springs of action, they never laboured to depict the pro gress of the passion; they struck at once the chord which vibrated to the heart, and left the rest to imagination and feeling. They were phi losophers, too, and that of the highest order: philosophy was with them what Milton de scribes it.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Pages
402
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Forgotten Books
Release
December 22, 2018
ISBN
1330448219
ISBN 13
9781330448212

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