Critical Essays on Dramatic PoetryL. Davis and C. Reymers, 1761 - 274 pàgines |
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Pàgina 10
... piece ; and the actors cannot pass from one apartment to another before the fpectators , as the Greeks and Romans used to do , in order to preserve , at the fame time , unity of place and probability . How could we dare , for example ...
... piece ; and the actors cannot pass from one apartment to another before the fpectators , as the Greeks and Romans used to do , in order to preserve , at the fame time , unity of place and probability . How could we dare , for example ...
Pàgina 12
... piece of history , equal perhaps to Salluft , is much fuperior either to your Otway or to our Manlius . In the first place , you'll take notice of the prejudice which obliged our french poet to difguife under roman names a known fact ...
... piece of history , equal perhaps to Salluft , is much fuperior either to your Otway or to our Manlius . In the first place , you'll take notice of the prejudice which obliged our french poet to difguife under roman names a known fact ...
Pàgina 21
... too many events in the fame play , the reason of this conduct ? If he is fincere , he will tell you , he wanted genius to fill his piece with a fingle fact , and if he employs two days days and takes in two towns for the scene of [ 21 ]
... too many events in the fame play , the reason of this conduct ? If he is fincere , he will tell you , he wanted genius to fill his piece with a fingle fact , and if he employs two days days and takes in two towns for the scene of [ 21 ]
Pàgina 23
... piece . An infant appears on the throne , his nurse stands by him , and he is surrounded by priests ; a queen gives or- ders to her foldiers to put this child to death , and armed Levites run to his de- fence . All this action is ...
... piece . An infant appears on the throne , his nurse stands by him , and he is surrounded by priests ; a queen gives or- ders to her foldiers to put this child to death , and armed Levites run to his de- fence . All this action is ...
Pàgina 27
Voltaire ? divided ; " but above all , faid they , let your piece be fimple ; imitate that excel- lency of the Greeks ; be affured that a multiplicity of events , and a complica- tion of interefts is only the resource of barren minds ...
Voltaire ? divided ; " but above all , faid they , let your piece be fimple ; imitate that excel- lency of the Greeks ; be affured that a multiplicity of events , and a complica- tion of interefts is only the resource of barren minds ...
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