Anecdotes of Polite Literature ...G. Burnet, 1764 |
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Pàgina 4
... nature and the practice of the antients : that critic regarded Oedipus as the finest fubject for tragedy the wit of man ever thought of . Let us take a view of the fable . The scene opens with a sacrifice which a great number of Thebans ...
... nature and the practice of the antients : that critic regarded Oedipus as the finest fubject for tragedy the wit of man ever thought of . Let us take a view of the fable . The scene opens with a sacrifice which a great number of Thebans ...
Pàgina 17
... natural language , or fuffers the writer to diveft himself of the poet , and attend to the scene of action , but binds him conftantly down to the theatre and the audience . Hence the most critical fituations , the moft interefting ...
... natural language , or fuffers the writer to diveft himself of the poet , and attend to the scene of action , but binds him conftantly down to the theatre and the audience . Hence the most critical fituations , the moft interefting ...
Pàgina 18
... nature nor deception , but only wit and fentiments : he requires only to be di- verted , and cares not whether what he fees be a true or falfe reprefentation of nature . Nobody goes here to the theatre . for the pleasure of feeing the ...
... nature nor deception , but only wit and fentiments : he requires only to be di- verted , and cares not whether what he fees be a true or falfe reprefentation of nature . Nobody goes here to the theatre . for the pleasure of feeing the ...
Pàgina 24
... Nature only , which Efchylus in his views of Homer ftudied , could have made him perceive , that the specta . tors being placed in a pit , or in a circus ,. it was neceffary that the action , in order to make it carry the refemblance of ...
... Nature only , which Efchylus in his views of Homer ftudied , could have made him perceive , that the specta . tors being placed in a pit , or in a circus ,. it was neceffary that the action , in order to make it carry the refemblance of ...
Pàgina 25
... nature ? Certainly not . The spectator may help to deceive him- felf upon the duration of an action , be it more or lefs , provided that that action does not go beyond certain bounds , and that the intervals are dextrously ma- naged ...
... nature ? Certainly not . The spectator may help to deceive him- felf upon the duration of an action , be it more or lefs , provided that that action does not go beyond certain bounds , and that the intervals are dextrously ma- naged ...
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...