 | 1810 - 1018 pages
...human breast — these are incontestable proofs that you possess the true theatric genius of Shakespear and Otway, refined from the unhappy barbarism of the one, and the licentiousness of the other. My enemies, you know, and, I own, even sometimes my friends, have reproached me with the love of paradoxes,... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 418 pages
...eulogium, he proceeded to declare, that the author possessed the true theatric genius ofjahakspeare and Otway, refined from the unhappy barbarism of the one, and the licentiousness of the other. Such extravagant praise requires no comment. The author was a Scotsman, and a clergyman of that church.... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 422 pages
...eulogium, he proceeded to declare, that the author possessed the true theatric genius of Shakspeare and Otway, refined from the unhappy barbarism of the one, and the licentiousness of the other. Such extravagant praise requires no comment. The author was a Scotsman, and a clergyman of that church.... | |
 | Society of ancient Scots - 1821 - 226 pages
...from David Hume, who dedicated to him his "Four Dissertations," and complimented him on possessing " the true theatric genius of Shakespeare and Otway,...refined from the unhappy barbarism of the one, and licentiousness of the other :" — An overstrained compliment certainly, yet saving that unhappiest... | |
 | Joseph Robertson, Society of Ancient Scots - 1821 - 414 pages
...who dedicated to him his "Four Dissertations," and complimented him on possessing " the true theatrjc genius of Shakespeare and Otway, refined from the unhappy barbarism of the one, and licentiousness of the other :" — An overstrained compliment certainly, yet saving that unhappiest... | |
 | Joseph Clinton Robertson - 1822 - 414 pages
...from David Hume, who dedicated to him his "Four Dissertations," and complimented him on possessing " the true theatric genius of Shakespeare and Otway,...refined from the unhappy barbarism of the one, and licentiousness of the other :"— An overstrained compliment certainly, yet saving that unhappiest... | |
 | Joseph Robertson, Society of Ancient Scots, London - 1822 - 458 pages
...from David Hume, who dedicated to him his "Four Dissertations," and complimented him on possessing " the true theatric genius of Shakespeare and Otway, refined from -the unhappy harharism of the one, and licentiousness of the other :" — An overstrained compliment certainly,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 534 pages
...with this, he proceeded to declare, that the author possessed the true theatric genius of Shakspeare and Otway, refined from the unhappy barbarism of the one and the licentiousness of the other. — See Hume's Dedication to ttis Four Dissertations, and Biog. Dram. vol. ip 174. " In a letter to... | |
 | Charles Churchill, William Tooke - 1844 - 400 pages
...own want of taste in his four dissertations addressed to Mr. Home, by complimenting him as possessing the true theatric genius of Shakespeare and Otway,...barbarism of the one, and the licentiousness of the other. Mr. Home was bred to the Ministry of the Kirk of Scotland ; but the heinous crime of writing plays... | |
 | 1853 - 772 pages
...and " The Fatal * " Four Dissertations," — of Hume, namely ; who complimented Home on possessing " the true theatric genius of Shakespeare and Otway,...refined from the unhappy barbarism of the one, and licentionsness of the other : " a judgment only paralleled in Newton's sightlessness to the sublimity... | |
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Not content with this, he proceeded to declare, that the author possessed the true theatric genius of Shakspeare and Otway, refined from the unhappy barbarism of the one and the licentiousness of the other. 
