 | 1803 - 420 pàgines
...delightful than any little transient starts of joy and satisfaction. Accordingly we find, that move of our English tragedies have succeeded, in which...The best plays of this kind are the Orphan, Venice PreservVl, Alexander the Great, Theodosius, All for Love, Oedipus, Oroonoko, Othello, &c- King Lear... | |
 | 1803 - 434 pàgines
...thought, as is much more lasting and delightful than any little transient starts of joy and satisfaction. Accordingly we find, that more of our English tragedies...succeeded, in which the favourites of the audience bink under their calamities, than those in which they recover . themselves out of them. The best plays... | |
 | 1808 - 306 pàgines
...thought' Ba is much more lasting and delightful than any little transient starts of joy and satisfaction. Accordingly we find, that more of our English tragedies have succeeded, in which the favourites of the andience sink wider their calamities, than those in which they recover themselves out of them. The... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 394 pàgines
...little transient starts of joy and satisfaction. Accordingly we find, that more of our English tragedics have succeeded, in which the favourites of the audience...Preserved, Alexander the Great, Theodosius, All for Love, Oedipus, Oroonoko, Othelio, &c. King Lear is an admirable tragedy of the same kind, as Sh.tkspeare... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 412 pàgines
...tragedies nave succeeded, in which the favourites of the audience nink under their calamities, thun those in which they recover themselves out of them....the Orphan, Venice Preserved, Alexander the Great, Thcodosius, All for Love, Oedipus, Oroonoko, Othello, ¡ЧС. Кшц- Leur is an udmiruhle tragedy... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 pàgines
...thought, as is much more lasting and delightful than any little transient starts of joy and satisfaction. Accordingly, we find that more of our English tragedies...Lear is an admirable tragedy of the same kind, as Shakespear wrote it ; but as it is reformed according to the chimerical notion of poetical justice,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 508 pàgines
...thought, as is much more lasting and delightful than any little transient starts of joy and satisfaction. Accordingly, we find that more of our English tragedies...Lear is an admirable tragedy of the same kind, as Shakespear wrote it ; but as it is reformed according to the chimerical notion of poetical justice,... | |
 | Samuel Richardson - 1811 - 460 pàgines
...that more of our English trage. ' dies have succeeded, in which the favourites of ihe au. ' dience sink under their calamities, than those in which '...The best plays of this kind are The Orphan, Venice 1 Preserved, Alexander the Great, Theodosius, All for 1 Love, Oedipus, Oroonoko, Othillu. &c. ' King... | |
 | 1811 - 530 pàgines
...as is much more lasting and delightful than any little " transient starts of joy and satisfaction. Accordingly we find that " more of our English tragedies have succeeded, in which the fa" vourites of the audience sink under their calamities, than those " in which they recover themselves... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 422 pàgines
...gain with respect to poetical justice, he certainly loses as to pathos. It was Mr. Addison's opinion, that more of our English tragedies have succeeded in which the favourites of the audience sunk under their calamities, than those in which they recovered themselves out of them ; and he adds,... | |
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Terror and commiseration leave a pleasing anguish in the mind ; and fix the audience in such a serious composure of thought, as is much more lasting and delightful than any little transient starts of joy and satisfaction. Accordingly we find, that more... 
