Critical Essays on Dramatic PoetryRobert Urie, 1761 - 195 pàgines |
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Pàgina 20
... mention love in a tragedy which bears the title of Junius Brutus , and to mix this paf- fion with the austere virtue of a Roman fenate , and the politics of an ambassador ? * Let every thing you write be fo natural that it will be ...
... mention love in a tragedy which bears the title of Junius Brutus , and to mix this paf- fion with the austere virtue of a Roman fenate , and the politics of an ambassador ? * Let every thing you write be fo natural that it will be ...
Pàgina 21
... mention my opinion on this fubject ? To infist on having love in every tragedy seems to me to be an effeminate taste : To banish it from all , would be , I think , a very unreafon able piece of ill - humour . The The theatre , either ...
... mention my opinion on this fubject ? To infist on having love in every tragedy seems to me to be an effeminate taste : To banish it from all , would be , I think , a very unreafon able piece of ill - humour . The The theatre , either ...
Pàgina 34
... mention it here ) , are not of a longer duration . If other plots require a greater length of time for their execution , it is a license only pardonable in favour of very great beauties , and the farther this licenfe is extended , the ...
... mention it here ) , are not of a longer duration . If other plots require a greater length of time for their execution , it is a license only pardonable in favour of very great beauties , and the farther this licenfe is extended , the ...
Pàgina 36
... mentioned it , that the unity of action consists in the unity of intrigue and in the unity of danger . " Let the reader perufe this part of Corneille's works , and he will foon determine between Mr. de la Motte and me ; and though I ...
... mentioned it , that the unity of action consists in the unity of intrigue and in the unity of danger . " Let the reader perufe this part of Corneille's works , and he will foon determine between Mr. de la Motte and me ; and though I ...
Pàgina 52
... I fhall not enter into any particular criti- cifms upon the play now published ; my readers will do it fufficiently without my help . But I cannot avoid mentioning a general criticism that has been made on the choice of the subject . [ 52 ]
... I fhall not enter into any particular criti- cifms upon the play now published ; my readers will do it fufficiently without my help . But I cannot avoid mentioning a general criticism that has been made on the choice of the subject . [ 52 ]
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Frases i termes més freqüents
Æneid againſt alfo almoſt alſo Alzira anſwered antient Athens beauties becauſe beſt Boileau Brutus Caefar cardinal Richelieu cauſe Chineſe Cinna comedy Corneille cuſtom defire English eſteem Euripides expreffed expreffion faid fame fatire fatisfied faults fcene feems fentiments fhall fhew fhould fimple fimplicity fince firft firſt fome fometimes fpeak fpectators France French ftage ftill fubject fuccefs fuch fuperior genius greateſt Greeks Guife hiftory himſelf honour intereſting itſelf knowlege laſt leaſt lefs madam manner Mariamne maſters Merope moft Moliere monfieur moſt Motte muft muſt myſelf nation nature neceffary notwithſtanding Oedipus paffion Paris perfons Phaedra philofopher piece play pleafing pleaſe pleaſure poet poetry prefent profe publiſhed Racine racter raiſe reaſon refpects repreſentation repreſented ſay ſcene ſeeing ſeems Semiramis ſeveral ſome Sophocles ſpeak ſtage ſtill tafte taſte theatre thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe tragedy tragic tranflated uſe verfe verſes Virgil Voltaire whofe whoſe write wrote Zara
Passatges populars
Pàgina 11 - Had you rather Caesar were living and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live all free men? As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was valiant, I honour him : but, as he was ambitious, I slew him. There is tears for his love; joy for his fortune; honour for his valour; and death for his ambition.
Pàgina 12 - Here comes his body, mourned by Mark Antony : who, though he had no hand in his death, shall receive the benefit of his dying, a place in the commonwealth ; as which of you shall not ? With this I depart, — that, as I slew my best lover for the good of Rome, I have the same dagger for myself, when it shall please my country to need my death.
Pàgina 12 - Capitol; his glory not extenuated, wherein he was worthy, nor his offences enforced, for which he suffered death. Enter ANTONY and others, with CESAR'S Body. Here comes his body, mourned by Mark Antony : who, though he had no hand in his death, shall receive the benefit of his dying, a place in the commonwealth ; as which of you shall not...
Pàgina 8 - How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue ! Who would not be that youth ? what pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country...
Pàgina 8 - CATO; Alas ! my friends ! Why mourn you thus ? let not a private loss Afflict your hearts. 'Tis Rome requires our tears. The mistress of the world, the seat of empire, The nurse of heroes, the delight of gods, That humbled the proud tyrants of the earth, And set the nations free, Rome is no more. O liberty! O virtue ! O my country!
Pàgina 10 - I am inclined to think, this opinion proceeded originally from the zeal of the partizans of our author and Ben Jonson ; as they endeavoured to exalt the one at the expence of the other. It is ever the nature of parties to be in extremes ; and nothing is so probable, as that because Ben...
Pàgina 73 - Come to me, come, my soldier, to my arms! You've been too long away from my embraces; But, when I have you fast, and all my own, With broken murmurs, and with amorous sighs, I'll say, you were unkind, and punish you, And mark you red with many an eager kiss.
Pàgina 73 - As all your bus'ness were to count my passion. One day past by and nothing saw but love ; Another came, and still 'twas only love: The suns were weary'd out with looking on, And I untir'd with loving.
Pàgina 83 - On the calm, peaceful, flourishing head of it; Whence we may view, deep, wondrous deep below, How poor mistaken mortals wandering go...
Pàgina 11 - ... fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was valiant, I honour him : but, as he was ambitious, I flew him: There are tears, for his love; joy, for his fortune; honour, for his valour; and death, for his ambition.