Critical worksT. Cadell and W. Davies, strand., 1811 |
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... look for , and can con- template , with pleasure , the very same cha- racter , set forth by a different course of action , or displayed in some other person . 4. Comedy succeeds best when the scene is laid at home , tragedy for the most ...
... look for , and can con- template , with pleasure , the very same cha- racter , set forth by a different course of action , or displayed in some other person . 4. Comedy succeeds best when the scene is laid at home , tragedy for the most ...
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... have apparently shewn a more accurate knowledge of human life : and , by opening these new and untryed veins of humour , have exceedingly enriched the comedy of our times . But , though we are not to look for the 60 ON THE PROVINCES OF.
... have apparently shewn a more accurate knowledge of human life : and , by opening these new and untryed veins of humour , have exceedingly enriched the comedy of our times . But , though we are not to look for the 60 ON THE PROVINCES OF.
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Richard Hurd. But , though we are not to look for the two species of humour , before - mentioned , in the same perfection on the simpler stages of Greece and Rome , as in our improved Theatres , yet the first of them was clearly seen and ...
Richard Hurd. But , though we are not to look for the two species of humour , before - mentioned , in the same perfection on the simpler stages of Greece and Rome , as in our improved Theatres , yet the first of them was clearly seen and ...
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... look for every sort of pleasure from tragedy [ or comedy ] but that which is peculiarly proper to eacho . " Human life , this writer says , " can be considered but as high or low ; " and " a representation of it " can please only as it ...
... look for every sort of pleasure from tragedy [ or comedy ] but that which is peculiarly proper to eacho . " Human life , this writer says , " can be considered but as high or low ; " and " a representation of it " can please only as it ...
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... look for in dramatic characters . Inferior personages , acting with less reserve and caution , afford the fittest oc- casion to the poet of expressing their genuine tempers and dispositions . Or , if a picture of the manners be expected ...
... look for in dramatic characters . Inferior personages , acting with less reserve and caution , afford the fittest oc- casion to the poet of expressing their genuine tempers and dispositions . Or , if a picture of the manners be expected ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
action admiration Aelian Aeneis affections allusion ancient appear Aristotle beauty cerned character chuses circumstances comedy comic common conclusion copied critic degree delight disposition doth drama end of poetry entertainment epic Essay Euripides expression fable fancy FARCE genius ginal give GONDIBERT Greece Greek hath Homer human humour idea imagery imagination imita instance invention Italian Jonson kind language Latin learned least Ludlow Castle manners MARKS OF IMITATION mean Milton mind modern moral nature nihil numbers object observation occasion original paganism particular passion peculiar perhaps periphrasis persons picture plagiarism Plato Plautus pleasure poem poet poet's poetic Pope proper province racter reader reason reflexions religion repre representation resemblance rhyme ridicule rience scene sense sentiment Shakespear shew similar sion sort speak species Statius taken taste Theophrastus things thought tion tragedy true truth turn verse Virgil VOLPONE WILLIAM JEPHSON words καὶ
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 256 - Begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, 460 The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turns it by degrees to the soul's essence, Till all be made immortal ; but when lust By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies, and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being.
Seite 255 - His honour and the greatness of his name Shall be, and make new nations ; he shall flourish, And, like a mountain cedar, reach his branches To all the plains about him ; our children's children Shall see this and bless heaven.
Seite 256 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become • A kneaded clod...
Seite 133 - Tout est dit : et l'on vient trop tard depuis plus de sept mille ans qu'il ya des hommes, et qui pensent.
Seite 256 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Seite 286 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Seite 256 - When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
Seite 256 - Sirens' harmony, That sit upon the nine infolded spheres, And sing to those that hold the vital shears, And turn the adamantine spindle round On which the fate of gods and men is wound.
Seite 278 - Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.
Seite 256 - Superior beings, when of late they saw A mortal man unfold all nature's law, Admir'd such wisdom in an earthly shape, And shew'da Newton as we shew an ape.