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... criticism ; since our curiosity being completely forestalled , we may have felt a diminished interest in the latter , from a cause not imputable to want of merit . The avowed model upon which Mr. Rose has framed his Amadis , is the ...
... criticism ; since our curiosity being completely forestalled , we may have felt a diminished interest in the latter , from a cause not imputable to want of merit . The avowed model upon which Mr. Rose has framed his Amadis , is the ...
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... criticism , evinced a fineness and correctness of judgment , which never descended to the populace of any other nation . To this general account of the Grecian stage , it is proper to add some remarks on those peculiar circumstances ...
... criticism , evinced a fineness and correctness of judgment , which never descended to the populace of any other nation . To this general account of the Grecian stage , it is proper to add some remarks on those peculiar circumstances ...
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... critics , to have been long gratified with mere extravagance . But these grotesque scenes were made the medium for throwing the most bold and daring ridicule upon the measures of the stage , upon the opinions of individuals , and upon ...
... critics , to have been long gratified with mere extravagance . But these grotesque scenes were made the medium for throwing the most bold and daring ridicule upon the measures of the stage , upon the opinions of individuals , and upon ...
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... critics have said to the contrary , and particularly the ingenious Schlegel , the new tone which comedy thus assumed , seems more congenial to true taste as well as to public de- corum , and even to the peace and security of the ...
... critics have said to the contrary , and particularly the ingenious Schlegel , the new tone which comedy thus assumed , seems more congenial to true taste as well as to public de- corum , and even to the peace and security of the ...
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... , after having been subjected to the alembic of modern criticism . That which survives the investigation , however , is of a solid and valuable character . If these Dramas do not entertain 154 ESSAY ON THE DRAMA BY SIR W. SCOTT .
... , after having been subjected to the alembic of modern criticism . That which survives the investigation , however , is of a solid and valuable character . If these Dramas do not entertain 154 ESSAY ON THE DRAMA BY SIR W. SCOTT .
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Page 272 - The other shape, If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb ; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either : black it stood as night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seemed his head, The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Page 271 - This opinion, which, perhaps, prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth: those that never heard of one another would not have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience can make credible. That it is doubted by single cavillers can very little weaken the general evidence, and some who deny it with their tongues, confess it by their fears.
Page 301 - Some say no evil thing that walks by night, In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost, That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin or swart faery of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity.
Page 202 - 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' the receiving earth : — For 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings; Carry them here and there ; jumping o'er times, Turning the accomplishment of many years Into an hour-glass...
Page 272 - It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, ""Shall mortal man be more just than God?
Page 272 - What might this be ? A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of. calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses.
Page 201 - Are now confined two mighty monarchies, Whose high upreared and abutting fronts The perilous narrow ocean parts asunder: 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 205 - I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played, but now the old plays began to disgust this refined age, since his Majesties being so long abroad.
Page 167 - And let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them: for there be of them that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, though in the meantime some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villanous and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Page 182 - Time is of all modes of existence most obsequious to the imagination; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours. In contemplation we easily contract the time of real actions and therefore willingly permit it to be contracted when we only see their imitation.