Anecdotes of Polite Literature ...G. Burnet, 1764 |
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Pàgina 20
... confi . der how many excellent tragedies , in which our terror and compaffion are * Letters prefixed to Elfrida . raised to the greatest degree , have been composed on raifed ( 20 ) Neither the unities of action, of time, ...
... confi . der how many excellent tragedies , in which our terror and compaffion are * Letters prefixed to Elfrida . raised to the greatest degree , have been composed on raifed ( 20 ) Neither the unities of action, of time, ...
Pàgina 51
... excellent modern tragedies are concluded by drinking and brawling , if a bowl of poifon and a rapier are to be called by thofe titles ? I fear moft of those of Sophocles muft alfo be damned imme- diately , according to Voltaire's ...
... excellent modern tragedies are concluded by drinking and brawling , if a bowl of poifon and a rapier are to be called by thofe titles ? I fear moft of those of Sophocles muft alfo be damned imme- diately , according to Voltaire's ...
Pàgina 68
... excellent fable is pathetic to the highest degree . Shakespear founded feveral tragedies on love - plots ; one of them perhaps is the most affecting fubject that the wit of man ever thought of . Romeo and Juliet is one of the best and ...
... excellent fable is pathetic to the highest degree . Shakespear founded feveral tragedies on love - plots ; one of them perhaps is the most affecting fubject that the wit of man ever thought of . Romeo and Juliet is one of the best and ...
Pàgina 100
... excellent , and finely adapted to raise the pity and terror of an audience . Semiramis , queen of the Eaft , in con- junction with Affur , a prince of the royal family , murders her husband king Ninus ; and Affur , to open his way to ...
... excellent , and finely adapted to raise the pity and terror of an audience . Semiramis , queen of the Eaft , in con- junction with Affur , a prince of the royal family , murders her husband king Ninus ; and Affur , to open his way to ...
Pàgina 111
... excellent , and raises more terror in the minds both of readers and fpecta- tors . Barbaroffa ufurps the throne of Algiers against the right of young Selim ; and , to secure his authority , endeavours to wed the murdered king's widow ...
... excellent , and raises more terror in the minds both of readers and fpecta- tors . Barbaroffa ufurps the throne of Algiers against the right of young Selim ; and , to secure his authority , endeavours to wed the murdered king's widow ...
Frases i termes més freqüents
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 134 - That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth! Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month, Let me not think on't: Frailty, thy name is woman!
Pàgina 185 - Good heav'ns, is this, — is this the man who braves me? Who bids my age make way, drives me before him, To the world's ridge, and sweeps me off like rubbish?
Pàgina 135 - Let me not think on't; frailty, thy name is woman A little month, or ere those shoes were old With which she...
Pàgina 42 - James, in which this tragedy was written, many circumstances concurred to propagate and confirm this opinion. The king, who was much celebrated for his knowledge, had, before his arrival in England, not only examined in person a woman accused of witchcraft but had given a very formal account of the practices and...
Pàgina 135 - ... uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules: within a month, Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married.
Pàgina 40 - IN order to make a true estimate of the abilities and merit of a writer, it is always necessary to examine the genius of his age, and the opinions of his contemporaries.
Pàgina 43 - Shakespeare might be easily allowed to found a play, especially since he has followed with great exactness such histories as were then thought true ; nor can it be doubted that the scenes of enchantment, however they may now be ridiculed, were both by himself and his audience thought awful and affecting.
Pàgina 135 - But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two: So excellent a king; that was, to this, Hyperion to a...
Pàgina 85 - I arrest you in the name of mercy, And dare compel your stay: Is then one look, One word, one moment, a last moment too, When I stand tottering on the brink of death, A cruel ignominious death, too much For one that loves like me ? A length of years You may devote to my blest rival's arms, I ask but one short moment.
Pàgina 96 - Christian, thou mistak'st my character. Look on me. Who am I ? I know, thou say'st The Moor, a slave, an abject, beaten slave (Eternal woes to him that made me so!): But look again. Has six years cruel bondage...