Biographia Literaria; Or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 2Fenner, 1817 - 309 pages |
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Page 135
... scene , at the same time that he almost always raises and impassions the style of the recitative immediately preceding . Even in real life , the difference is great and evident between words used as the arbitrary marks of thought , our ...
... scene , at the same time that he almost always raises and impassions the style of the recitative immediately preceding . Even in real life , the difference is great and evident between words used as the arbitrary marks of thought , our ...
Page 201
... scene the more deeply from the circumstance of having just quitted them . For the Prussian had during the whole of the evening displayed all his talents to captivate the Dane , who had admitted him into the train of his dependents . The ...
... scene the more deeply from the circumstance of having just quitted them . For the Prussian had during the whole of the evening displayed all his talents to captivate the Dane , who had admitted him into the train of his dependents . The ...
Page 221
... scenes and in comes Prince somebody pardons the Count , and the wife is still frantic , only with joy ; that was all ! 1 O dear lady ! this is one of the cases , in which laughter is followed by melancholy : for such is the kind of ...
... scenes and in comes Prince somebody pardons the Count , and the wife is still frantic , only with joy ; that was all ! 1 O dear lady ! this is one of the cases , in which laughter is followed by melancholy : for such is the kind of ...
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge. more respectable than the maudlin tears of drunkenness . Their tragic scenes were meart to affect us indeed , but within the bounds of pleasure , and in union with the activity both of our understanding and ...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. more respectable than the maudlin tears of drunkenness . Their tragic scenes were meart to affect us indeed , but within the bounds of pleasure , and in union with the activity both of our understanding and ...
Page 229
... scene was quite astonishing ! P. But how can you connect with such men and such actions that dependance of thousands on the fate of one , which gives so lofty an interest to the personages of Shakespeare , and the Greek Tragedians ? How ...
... scene was quite astonishing ! P. But how can you connect with such men and such actions that dependance of thousands on the fate of one , which gives so lofty an interest to the personages of Shakespeare , and the Greek Tragedians ? How ...
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