A Course of Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 75
Page iv
... with pleasure and de- light to the beauty of life , to the sincerity of faith , and to all the brilliancy of those virtues which derive their colouring from the sun- shine of the soul . " I was at Vienna when W. SCHLEGEL gave his.
... with pleasure and de- light to the beauty of life , to the sincerity of faith , and to all the brilliancy of those virtues which derive their colouring from the sun- shine of the soul . " I was at Vienna when W. SCHLEGEL gave his.
Page 2
... light on the history of the dramatic art by the torch of criticism . In the course of this attempt it will be necessary to adopt many a proposition , without proof , from general theory ; but I hope that the manner in which this shall ...
... light on the history of the dramatic art by the torch of criticism . In the course of this attempt it will be necessary to adopt many a proposition , without proof , from general theory ; but I hope that the manner in which this shall ...
Page 22
... light entertainment , if we enter on a consideration of the works produced by the most distinguished nations in their most flourishing times , and institute an inquiry into the means of ennobling and perfecting an art of such high ...
... light entertainment , if we enter on a consideration of the works produced by the most distinguished nations in their most flourishing times , and institute an inquiry into the means of ennobling and perfecting an art of such high ...
Page 25
... light , and to admit no impres- sions calculated to , disturb or ruffle us . The imperfections of men , and the irregularities in their conduct to one another , be- come no longer an object of our dislike and compassion , but serve , by ...
... light , and to admit no impres- sions calculated to , disturb or ruffle us . The imperfections of men , and the irregularities in their conduct to one another , be- come no longer an object of our dislike and compassion , but serve , by ...
Page 28
... light of ludicrous pretension . In the theatre , we lay great stress on the infancy of the art ; and because their poets lived two thousand years before us , we con- clude that we must have carried it farther than they did . In this way ...
... light of ludicrous pretension . In the theatre , we lay great stress on the infancy of the art ; and because their poets lived two thousand years before us , we con- clude that we must have carried it farther than they did . In this way ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
acquainted action admiration Agamemnon allowed altogether ancient appears Aristophanes Aristotle beauty Ben Jonson Cæsar Calderon character chorus circumstances Clytemnestra comic writers composition considered Corneille critics death degree dignity Dikaiopolis display dramatic art effect Electra elevation endeavours English entertainment Eschylus Eumenides Euripides everything exhibited expression favour feeling foreign French tragedy give Grecian Greek tragedy Greeks Hence heroes heroic honour human idea imagination imitation intrigue invention Italian Julius Cæsar labour language Lope de Vega manner masks means Menander merely Metastasio mind modern Molière moral nations nature never noble object observe old comedy Orestes original passion peculiar persons picture pieces Plautus players plays poet poetical poetry possess principles produce Racine representation resemblance respect Roman scene Shakspeare Shakspeare's Sophocles Spanish Spanish poetry species spectators spirit stage taste theatre theatrical things tion tone tragic true truth unity verse Voltaire whole
Popular passages
Page 351 - Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts ; Into a thousand parts divide one man, And make imaginary puissance ; Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i...
Page 280 - How absolute the knave is ! we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us. By the Lord, Horatio, these three years I have taken note of it ; the age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe. How long hast thou been a grave-maker? First Clo. Of all the days i' the year, I came to 't that day that our last king Hamlet overcame Fortinbras.
Page 196 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Page 321 - Say, there be ; Yet nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean ; so, o'er that art Which, you say, adds to nature, is an art That nature makes.
Page 299 - This fellow is wise enough to play the fool; And to do that well craves a kind of wit. 60 He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye. This is a practice As full of labour as a wise man's art.
Page 292 - He paints, in a most inimitable manner, the gradual progress from the first origin ; " he gives," as Lessing says, "a living picture of all the most minute and secret artifices by which a feeling steals into our souls, of all the imperceptible advantages which it there gains, of all the stratagems by which every other passion is made subservient to it, till it becomes the sole tyrant of our desires and our aversions.
Page 282 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Page 296 - ... properties subsist in him peaceably together. The world of spirits and nature have laid all their treasures at his feet: in strength a demi-god, in profundity of view a prophet, in all-seeing wisdom a guardian spirit of a higher order, he lowers himself to mortals as if unconscious of his superiority, and is as open and unassuming as a child.
Page 323 - By the manner in which he has handled it, it has become a glorious song of praise on that inexpressible feeling which ennobles the soul and gives to it its highest sublimity, and which elevates even the senses themselves into soul...
Page 9 - Hence the poetry of the ancients was the poetry of enjoyment, and ours is that of desire : the former has its foundation in the scene which is present, while the latter hovers betwixt recollection and hope.