The Retrospective Review, Volume 1Charles and Henry Baldwyn, 1820 - Books |
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... death the law was about to inflict upon him . When his jealousy had wrought him up to a resolution of his taking revenge for the supposed injury , he sets Iago to the fighting part to kill Cassio , and chuses him- self to murder the ...
... death the law was about to inflict upon him . When his jealousy had wrought him up to a resolution of his taking revenge for the supposed injury , he sets Iago to the fighting part to kill Cassio , and chuses him- self to murder the ...
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... death than at her life . " Here ( he exclaims in an agony of passion ) a noble Venetian lady is to be murdered by our poet , in sober sadness , purely for being a fool . No Pagan poet but would have found some machine for her ...
... death than at her life . " Here ( he exclaims in an agony of passion ) a noble Venetian lady is to be murdered by our poet , in sober sadness , purely for being a fool . No Pagan poet but would have found some machine for her ...
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... death - respon- sible only to the critic for the administration of his powers . Mr. Rymer has his own stately notions of what is proper for tragedy . He is zealous for poetical justice ; and as he thinks that vice cannot be punished too ...
... death - respon- sible only to the critic for the administration of his powers . Mr. Rymer has his own stately notions of what is proper for tragedy . He is zealous for poetical justice ; and as he thinks that vice cannot be punished too ...
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... death for his regal domain of tragedy : " If I mistake not , in poetry no woman is to kill a man , except her quality gives her the advantage above him ; nor is a servant to kill the master , nor a private man , much less a subject to ...
... death for his regal domain of tragedy : " If I mistake not , in poetry no woman is to kill a man , except her quality gives her the advantage above him ; nor is a servant to kill the master , nor a private man , much less a subject to ...
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... death , many of them would retire - but not to the scene of horror . The reality of human suffering would come too closely home to their hearts , to permit their enjoyment of the fiction . How often , during the scenic exhibition of ...
... death , many of them would retire - but not to the scene of horror . The reality of human suffering would come too closely home to their hearts , to permit their enjoyment of the fiction . How often , during the scenic exhibition of ...
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Page 74 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Page 90 - ... it cannot be long before we lie down in darkness and have our light in ashes...
Page 312 - tis the soul of peace ; Of all the virtues 'tis nearest kin to heaven ; It makes men look like gods. The best of men That e'er wore earth about him was a sufferer, A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit, The first true gentleman that ever breath'd.
Page 90 - The number of the dead long exceedeth all that shall live. The night of time far surpasseth the day, and who knows when was the equinox?
Page 136 - I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Page 93 - Darkness and light divide the course of time, and oblivion shares with memory a great part even of our living beings; we slightly remember our felicities, and the smartest strokes of affliction leave but short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves.
Page 93 - To be ignorant of evils to come, and forgetful of evils past, is a merciful provision in nature, whereby we digest the mixture of our few and evil days ; and our delivered senses not relapsing into cutting remembrances, our sorrows are not kept raw by the edge of repetitions.
Page 18 - That day she was dressed in white silk, bordered with pearls of the size of beans, and over it a mantle of black silk, shot with silver threads ; her train was very long, the end of it borne by a marchioness ; instead of a chain she had an oblong collar of gold and jewels.
Page 90 - Oblivion is not to be hired. The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be found in the register of God, not in the record of man.
Page 91 - And therefore restless inquietude for the diuturnity of our memories unto present considerations, seems a vanity almost out of date, and superannuated piece of folly. We cannot hope to live so long in our names as some have done in their persons ; one face of Janus holds no proportion unto the other. It is too late to be ambitious.