Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 46W. Blackwood, 1839 |
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... principles in dramatic composition so firmly , that they soon became unalter- able rules , from which no dramatist could safely venture to deviate . Such were the invariable introduction of love as the moving principle of the drama ...
... principles in dramatic composition so firmly , that they soon became unalter- able rules , from which no dramatist could safely venture to deviate . Such were the invariable introduction of love as the moving principle of the drama ...
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... principle , besides an attack on the unities , was this , that the drama gained nothing by being written in verse ; and he illustrated his proposition by the production of an Edipus in prose and an Edipus in verse , which cer- tainly ...
... principle , besides an attack on the unities , was this , that the drama gained nothing by being written in verse ; and he illustrated his proposition by the production of an Edipus in prose and an Edipus in verse , which cer- tainly ...
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1839. ] Setting out with the principle that good poetry was only good prose , with the addition of measure and rhyme , he was frequently prosaic and negligent in his verses . He had few of those bold forms of expression , those origi ...
1839. ] Setting out with the principle that good poetry was only good prose , with the addition of measure and rhyme , he was frequently prosaic and negligent in his verses . He had few of those bold forms of expression , those origi ...
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... principle . He determined to compose a tragedy , as he says , in the English taste , ba- nishing not merely love intrigues , but almost all interference on the part of women ; though , where he found the authority for this novel kind of ...
... principle . He determined to compose a tragedy , as he says , in the English taste , ba- nishing not merely love intrigues , but almost all interference on the part of women ; though , where he found the authority for this novel kind of ...
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... principle of cer- tain molluscous animals , in whom the stomach and the whole body are only one and the same thing , how the devil do you think it could be other- wise ? The eating is soon , too soon , over - the things to be eaten are ...
... principle of cer- tain molluscous animals , in whom the stomach and the whole body are only one and the same thing , how the devil do you think it could be other- wise ? The eating is soon , too soon , over - the things to be eaten are ...
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