Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 46W. Blackwood., 1839 - England |
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... Voltaire , the struggle between his admirers and the opponents of his fame , was waged as fiercely and unre- lentingly as at the moment when he closed his career ; for he was still to both parties , not so much the drama- tist , the ...
... Voltaire , the struggle between his admirers and the opponents of his fame , was waged as fiercely and unre- lentingly as at the moment when he closed his career ; for he was still to both parties , not so much the drama- tist , the ...
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... Voltaire are the great representatives . His work , therefore , though written on more enlarged and liberal principles than that of La Harpe , certainly breathes more of the rationalizing spirit of the first half of the eighteenth ...
... Voltaire are the great representatives . His work , therefore , though written on more enlarged and liberal principles than that of La Harpe , certainly breathes more of the rationalizing spirit of the first half of the eighteenth ...
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... Voltaire , which even approaches to the character of genius ; and to which we are glad to see that justice is done by Villemain . He blames the first act as " ill - written , because without passion " -of which we are scarcely disposed ...
... Voltaire , which even approaches to the character of genius ; and to which we are glad to see that justice is done by Villemain . He blames the first act as " ill - written , because without passion " -of which we are scarcely disposed ...
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... Voltaire ( the third member of the French Dramatic Tri- umvirate ) as to the drama , changed greatly after his compulsory resi- dence in England . His first play , the Edipus , produced at the age of twenty - three , was in all respects ...
... Voltaire ( the third member of the French Dramatic Tri- umvirate ) as to the drama , changed greatly after his compulsory resi- dence in England . His first play , the Edipus , produced at the age of twenty - three , was in all respects ...
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... Voltaire even an equality with Cor- neille and Racine . Compare the im- pressions left on the mind by the pe- rusal of the works of the three great dramatists , and the inferiority of the third is at once perceptible . " Cor- neille ...
... Voltaire even an equality with Cor- neille and Racine . Compare the im- pressions left on the mind by the pe- rusal of the works of the three great dramatists , and the inferiority of the third is at once perceptible . " Cor- neille ...
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