 | 700 pages
...the finest picture of the shipwreck of moral nature, when the storm of life surpasses its strength. It may be a question, whether the theatre of republican...a question which I propose to discuss after having spoken of the tragedies of Racine and Voltaire. I shall also examine, in the second part of this work,... | |
 | Joseph Dennie, John Elihu Hall - Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1801 - 674 pages
...the finest picture of the shipwreck of moral nature, when the storm of life surpasses its strength. It may be a question, whether the theatre of republican...inconclusiveness, and common circumstances connected wkh elevated situations? In short, will the tragic characters be taken from recollection, from human... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1813 - 706 pages
...the finest picture of the shipwreck of moral nature, when the storm of life surpasses its strength. It may be a question, whether the theatre of republican...painted with all their foibles, the virtues with their inconelusiveness, and common circumstances connected with elevated situations? In short, will the tragic... | |
 | 1813 - 558 pages
...finest picture of the shipwreck of moral nature, when the storm of life surpasses its strength. It ma\ be a question whether the theatre of republican France,...a question which I propose to discuss after having spoken of the tragedies of Racine and Voltaire. I shall also examine, in the aecond part of this work,... | |
 | 1813 - 562 pages
...finest picture of the shipwreck of moral nature, when the storm of life surpasses its strength. It max be a question whether the theatre of republican France,...painted with all their foibles, the virtues with their inconclusiveoess, and common circumstances connected with elevated situations? In short, will the tragic... | |
 | Madame de Staël (Anne-Louise-Germaine) - Literature and morals - 1835 - 122 pages
...the finest picture of the shipwreck of moral nature, when the storm of life surpasses its strength. It may be a question, whether the theatre of republican...theatre, will now admit of their heroes being painted withwll their foibles, the virtues with their inconclusiveness, and common circumstances connected... | |
 | George Combe - Phrenology - 1845 - 498 pages
...the finest picture of the shipwreck of moral nature, whcu the storm of life surpasses its strength. ) spoken of the tragedies of Racine and Voltaire. I shall also examine, in the second part of this work,... | |
 | George Combe - Phrenology - 1850 - 452 pages
...the finest picture of the shipwreck of moral nature, when the storm of life surpasses its strength. It may be a question, whether the theatre of republican...recollection, from human life, or from the beautiful ideal 1 — This is a question which I propose to discuss after having spoken of the tragedies of Racine... | |
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It may be a question, whether the theatre of republican France, like the English theatre, will now admit of their heroes being painted with all their foibles, the virtues with their inconclusiveness, and common circumstances connected with elevated situations?... 