There is no scene which does not contribute to the aggravation of the distress or conduct of the action, and scarce a line which does not conduce to the progress of the scene. So powerful is the current of the poet's imagination that the mind which once... Biographia Dramatica: Names of the dramas: A-L - Page 360by David Erskine Baker - 1812Full view - About this book
| William Shakespeare - 1765 - 652 pages
...oppofiticn of contrary characters, the fudden changes of fortune, and the quick fucceffion of events, fill the mind with a perpetual tumult of indignation, pity, and hope. There is no fcene which docs not contribute to the aggravation of the diftrcfs or condaft of the aftion, and fcarcc... | |
| William Shakespeare, George Colman, Nahum Tate - Aging parents - 1768 - 98 pages
...of contrary characters, " the fudden changes of fortune, and the " quick fucceffion of events, fill the mind " with a perpetual tumult of indignation, " pity, and hope. There is no fcene which " does not contribute to the aggravation of *' the diftrefs, or conduct of the action ;... | |
| George Colman - 1777 - 340 pages
...of contrary characters, the fudden " changes of fortune, and the quick fuccefiion of " events, -fill the mind with a perpetual tumult of" indignation, pity, and hope. There is no fcene n which does not contribute to the aggravation of " the diftrefs,.or conduit of the aftion ;... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1780 - 336 pages
...oppofition of contrary characters, the fudden changes of fortune, and the quick fuccefiion of events, fill the mind with a perpetual tumult of indignation, pity, and hope. There is no fcene which does not contribute to the aggravation of the diftrefs or conduct of the action, and fcarce... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1785 - 632 pages
...oppofition of contrary characters, the fuddcn changes of fortune, and the quick fucceffion of events, fill the mind with a perpetual tumult of indignation, pity, and hope. There is no fcene which does not contribute to the aggravation of the diilrcfs or conduit of the aftion, and fcarce... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1790 - 722 pages
...oppofition of contrary characters, the fudden changes of fortune, and the quick fucceflion of events, fill the mind with a perpetual tumult of indignation, pity, and hope. There is no fcene which does not contribute to the aggravation of the diftrefs or conduct of the action, and fcarce... | |
| 1792 - 530 pages
...oppofitio'n of contrary characters, J:he fudden changes of fortune, and the quick fnccelïion of events, fill the mind with a perpetual tumult of indignation, pity, and hope. There is no fcene which does not contribute to the aggravation of the diftrefs or conduft of the anión, and fcarce... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1798 - 446 pages
...oppofition of contrary characters, the fudden changes of fortune, and the quick fucceflion of events, fill the mind with a perpetual tumult of indignation, pity and hope. There is no fcene which does not contribute to the aggravation of the diftrefs or conduct of the action, and icarce... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1800 - 396 pages
...opposition of contrary characters, the sudden changes of fortune, and the quick succession of events, fill the mind with a perpetual tumult of indignation, pity,...conduce to the progress of the scene. So powerful is the current of the poet's imagination, that the mind, which once : ventures within it, is hurried irresistibly... | |
| Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 454 pages
...oppofition of contrary characters, the fudden changes of fortune, and the quick fucccffion of events, fill the mind with a perpetual tumult of indignation, pity, and hope. There is no fcene which does not contribute to the aggravation of the diflreis or conduct of the action, and fcarce... | |
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