Lectures on Dramatic Literature: Or, The Employment of the Passions in Drama |
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... faults if they are ridiculous . The Theatre satisfies this senti- ment by the exhibitions of Comedy , which gratify our malig- nity , and those of Tragedy , which excite our pity ; not that we love the misfortunes of others , but we ...
... faults if they are ridiculous . The Theatre satisfies this senti- ment by the exhibitions of Comedy , which gratify our malig- nity , and those of Tragedy , which excite our pity ; not that we love the misfortunes of others , but we ...
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... faults , viz . monotony and exaggeration . Exceptions and bizarreries soon become monotonous . Odd people are only amusing ... fault of exceptions and singularities is , that they fall easily into exaggeration . When a dramatic au- thor ...
... faults , viz . monotony and exaggeration . Exceptions and bizarreries soon become monotonous . Odd people are only amusing ... fault of exceptions and singularities is , that they fall easily into exaggeration . When a dramatic au- thor ...
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... faults of Paris and Helen ? Why is Helen fatal to me ? If you will not be moved by my words , I pray you , give me a last look and kiss , so that I may at least have this farewell remem- brance of you before I die . My brothers , who ...
... faults of Paris and Helen ? Why is Helen fatal to me ? If you will not be moved by my words , I pray you , give me a last look and kiss , so that I may at least have this farewell remem- brance of you before I die . My brothers , who ...
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... fault . " Certainly the sentiments which Catarina expresses are true and natural . We feel in these words a horror of death and the love of life ; but we understand in this scene the cry of the body in agony , and not the cry of the ...
... fault . " Certainly the sentiments which Catarina expresses are true and natural . We feel in these words a horror of death and the love of life ; but we understand in this scene the cry of the body in agony , and not the cry of the ...
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... fault or by his imagination ; if he has given him sorrows instead of remorse and reveries ; if , in a word , he has given him a conscience firm and pure , an author may easily show how the idea of suicide may cross the mind of his hero ...
... fault or by his imagination ; if he has given him sorrows instead of remorse and reveries ; if , in a word , he has given him a conscience firm and pure , an author may easily show how the idea of suicide may cross the mind of his hero ...
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Page 141 - And my poor fool is hang'd ! No, no, no life ! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all?
Page 51 - Paul stood forth in the midst of them, and said, Sirs, ye should have hearkened unto me, and not have loosed from Crete, and to have gained this harm and loss. 22 And now I exhort you to be of good cheer: for there shall be no loss of any man's life among you, but of the ship.
Page 132 - Hear, Nature, hear ! dear goddess, hear ! Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend To make this creature fruitful ! Into her womb convey sterility ! Dry up in her the organs of increase, And from her derogate body never spring A babe to honour her...
Page 93 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Page 247 - A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE? CONTAINING THE PRONUNCIATION, ETYMOLOGY, AND EXPLANATION Of all words authorized by eminent writers; TO WHICH ARE ADDED, A VOCABULARY OF THE ROOTS OF ENGLISH WORDS, AND AN ACCENTED LIST OF GREEK, LATIN, AND SCRIPTURE PROPER NAMES BY ALEXANDER REID, AM, Rector of the Circus School, Edinburgh.
Page 134 - Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drench'd our steeples, drown'd the cocks ! You sulphurous and thought-executing fires, Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts, Singe my white head ! And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world ! Crack nature's moulds, all germens spill at once, That make ingrateful man!
Page 52 - And while the day was coming on, Paul besought them all to take meat, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye have tarried, and continued fasting, having taken nothing.
Page 247 - Critical Remarks, in which the various methods of pronouncing employed by different authors are investigated and compared with each other. The SECOND...
Page 27 - Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin?
Page 53 - God is our refuge and strength ; a very present help in trouble. Therefore will we not fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea ; Though the waters thereof roar aud be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof.