Anecdotes of Polite Literature ...G. Burnet, 1764 |
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Pàgina 3
... manners , but we are happy or mifer- able by our actions . Tragedy then does not endeavour to imitate manners , but adds them by reafon of the actions ; fo that actions and fable are the end of tragedy * . An action is entire which hath ...
... manners , but we are happy or mifer- able by our actions . Tragedy then does not endeavour to imitate manners , but adds them by reafon of the actions ; fo that actions and fable are the end of tragedy * . An action is entire which hath ...
Pàgina 12
... manners fupplied by elaborate de- fcriptions ; and the quick and lively turns of paffion are loft in the detail , and pomp of declamation * . " This just ob- fervation is no where more apparent than in the French tragedies in general ...
... manners fupplied by elaborate de- fcriptions ; and the quick and lively turns of paffion are loft in the detail , and pomp of declamation * . " This just ob- fervation is no where more apparent than in the French tragedies in general ...
Pàgina 13
... manner by natural fentiments properly expreffed ? The truth is , fuch execution is too delicate for an ordinary genius ; and for that reason , the bulk of writers , inftead of expreffing a paffion like one honesty to expofe his ...
... manner by natural fentiments properly expreffed ? The truth is , fuch execution is too delicate for an ordinary genius ; and for that reason , the bulk of writers , inftead of expreffing a paffion like one honesty to expofe his ...
Pàgina 14
... manner , an action as paffing in his fight and hearing . In this figured fituation , he is led naturally to defcribe as a spectator , and at fecond - hand to entertain his readers with his own observations , with cool description and ...
... manner , an action as paffing in his fight and hearing . In this figured fituation , he is led naturally to defcribe as a spectator , and at fecond - hand to entertain his readers with his own observations , with cool description and ...
Pàgina 31
... kind is , in a manner , wholly abforbed in imagination and fentiment . Befides that , when the actors trefpafs a little up- en the unity of time , they have art enough not not to fix too precisely the inftant in which the ( 31 )
... kind is , in a manner , wholly abforbed in imagination and fentiment . Befides that , when the actors trefpafs a little up- en the unity of time , they have art enough not not to fix too precisely the inftant in which the ( 31 )
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abfurd action affecting againſt alfo almoft Alonzo alſo anfwer Arzaces audience Barbaroffa becauſe Carlos cataſtrophe Cato character compaffion compofed compofition Corneille Creon Criticifm death diſcover epifodes expreffed fable faid falfe fame fatire fays fcene fenti fentiments fhall fhews fhort fhould firſt fituation fome fometimes foul fpeaking fpectator fpeech French ftage ftrokes fubject fuch fuppofe furprize gedy genius greateſt Hamlet Henriade hiftory himſelf intereft juft Juliet king la Henriade laft language laſt lefs Leonora Macbeth manner ment moft Monf moſt muft murder muſt n'eft nature neceffary noble obferved occafion Othello paffages paffion pathetic perfon perfonages piece pity play pleaſure poet prefent Preferved prince of Condé profe Racine racter raiſed reafon refemblance refpect reprefentation reprefented Revenge rife Romeo Romeo and Juliet ſcene Semiramis Shakeſpear Sophocles ſpeak terror theatre thee thefe theſe thofe thoſe tion tragedy tranflation unities Voltaire whofe wrote Zanga Zara
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...