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... reader , whether a favourer or an enemy of the ancient Drama , not to pass his censure upon the authors or upon me , without a regular perusal of this whole work . For , though it seems to be com- posed of pieces of which each may ...
... reader , whether a favourer or an enemy of the ancient Drama , not to pass his censure upon the authors or upon me , without a regular perusal of this whole work . For , though it seems to be com- posed of pieces of which each may ...
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... reader to please himself by form- ing such conclusions as I supposed him like to dis- cover , as well as myself . I am not here attempting to prejudice the reader by an apology either for the ancients , or my own manner . I have not ...
... reader to please himself by form- ing such conclusions as I supposed him like to dis- cover , as well as myself . I am not here attempting to prejudice the reader by an apology either for the ancients , or my own manner . I have not ...
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... readers , and which ought to rest eternally in proper obscurity . Not every thing in this infancy of comedy was ... reader that of perusing . As for that small number of writers who delight in those delicacies , they give themselves ...
... readers , and which ought to rest eternally in proper obscurity . Not every thing in this infancy of comedy was ... reader that of perusing . As for that small number of writers who delight in those delicacies , they give themselves ...
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... readers a little by the judgments that had been passed upon him by the criticks of our own time , without forgetting one of the ancients that deserves great respect . Aristophanes VIII . " Aristophanes , " says father Rapin , 66 ...
... readers a little by the judgments that had been passed upon him by the criticks of our own time , without forgetting one of the ancients that deserves great respect . Aristophanes VIII . " Aristophanes , " says father Rapin , 66 ...
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... reader to see what that critick's opinion is of Lopes de Vega and Moliere . It will appear , that , with respect to Lopes de Vega , he is rather too profuse of praise : that in speaking of Moliere , he is too parsimonious . This piece ...
... reader to see what that critick's opinion is of Lopes de Vega and Moliere . It will appear , that , with respect to Lopes de Vega , he is rather too profuse of praise : that in speaking of Moliere , he is too parsimonious . This piece ...
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Página 366 - To live according to nature, is to act always with due regard to the fitness arising from the relations and qualities of causes and effects ; to concur with the great and unchangeable scheme of universal felicity ; to co-operate with the general disposition and tendency of the present system of things.
Página 320 - is much to be desired; but I am afraid that no man will be able to breathe in these regions of speculation and tranquillity.
Página 304 - ... frequented by every fowl whom nature has taught to dip the wing in water. This lake discharged its superfluities by a stream which entered a dark cleft of the mountain on the northern side, and fell with dreadful noise from precipice to precipice till it was heard no more.
Página 128 - Just in the gate and in the jaws of hell, Revengeful Cares and sullen Sorrows dwell, And pale Diseases, and repining Age, Want, Fear, and Famine's unresisted rage; Here Toils, and Death, and Death's half-brother, Sleep, Forms terrible to view, their sentry keep; With anxious Pleasures of a guilty mind, Deep Frauds before, and open Force behind; The Furies' iron beds; and Strife, that shakes Her hissing tresses and unfolds her snakes.
Página 311 - The old man was surprised at this new species of affliction, and knew not what to reply, yet was unwilling to be silent. "Sir," said he, "if you had seen the miseries of the world, you would know how to value your present state." "Now," said the prince, "you have given me something to desire; I shall long to see the miseries of the world, since the sight of them is necessary to happiness.
Página 385 - No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of the spring : no man can, at the same time, fill his cup from the source and from the mouth of the Nile.
Página 436 - No disease of the imagination,' answered Imlac, 'is so difficult of cure as that which is complicated with the dread of guilt: fancy and conscience then act interchangeably upon us, and so often shift their places that the illusions of one are not distinguished from the dictates of the other. If fancy presents images not moral or religious, the mind drives them away when they give it pain, but when...
Página 331 - Being now resolved to be a poet, I saw every thing with a new purpose ; my sphere of attention was suddenly magnified : no kind of knowledge was to be overlooked. I ranged mountains and deserts for images and resemblances, and pictured upon my mind every tree of the forest and flower of the valley.
Página 309 - With observations like these the prince amused himself as he returned, uttering them with a plaintive voice, yet with a look that discovered him to feel some complacence in his own perspicacity, and to receive some solace of the miseries of life, from consciousness of the delicacy with which he felt, and the eloquence with which he bewailed them.