A Course of Lectures on Dramatic Art and LiteratureHogan & Thompson, 1833 - 442 ページ |
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... tone , even that of the most lively gladness ; but still it will always , in some shape or other , bear traces of the source from which it ori- ginated . The feeling of the moderns is , upon the whole , more intense , their fancy more ...
... tone , even that of the most lively gladness ; but still it will always , in some shape or other , bear traces of the source from which it ori- ginated . The feeling of the moderns is , upon the whole , more intense , their fancy more ...
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... tone and lan- guage . But the gaps , which these conversations still leave in the story , are filled up with a description of the accompanying circumstances , or other particulars , by the person who relates in his own name . The ...
... tone and lan- guage . But the gaps , which these conversations still leave in the story , are filled up with a description of the accompanying circumstances , or other particulars , by the person who relates in his own name . The ...
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... tones would be lost on the stage . The melting harmonica is not calculated to regulate the march of an army , and kindle its military enthusiasm . For this we must have piercing instruments , but above all a decided rhythmus , to ...
... tones would be lost on the stage . The melting harmonica is not calculated to regulate the march of an army , and kindle its military enthusiasm . For this we must have piercing instruments , but above all a decided rhythmus , to ...
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... tone of polished society . The orator and the dramatic poet find means to break down these barriers of conventional reserve . While they transport their hearers to such scenes of mental agitation , that their external signs break ...
... tone of polished society . The orator and the dramatic poet find means to break down these barriers of conventional reserve . While they transport their hearers to such scenes of mental agitation , that their external signs break ...
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... tone ; and when the mind dwells on the consideration of the possible , as an existing reality , when that tone is inspired by the most striking examples of violent revolutions in human destiny , either from dejection of soul , or after ...
... tone ; and when the mind dwells on the consideration of the possible , as an existing reality , when that tone is inspired by the most striking examples of violent revolutions in human destiny , either from dejection of soul , or after ...
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351 ページ - 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...
280 ページ - How absolute the knave is ! we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us. By the Lord, Horatio, these three years I have taken note of it ; the age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe. How long hast thou been a grave-maker? First Clo. Of all the days i' the year, I came to 't that day that our last king Hamlet overcame Fortinbras.
196 ページ - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
321 ページ - Say, there be ; Yet nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean ; so, o'er that art Which, you say, adds to nature, is an art That nature makes.
299 ページ - This fellow is wise enough to play the fool; And to do that well craves a kind of wit. 60 He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye. This is a practice As full of labour as a wise man's art.
292 ページ - He paints, in a most inimitable manner, the gradual progress from the first origin ; " he gives," as Lessing says, "a living picture of all the most minute and secret artifices by which a feeling steals into our souls, of all the imperceptible advantages which it there gains, of all the stratagems by which every other passion is made subservient to it, till it becomes the sole tyrant of our desires and our aversions.
282 ページ - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
296 ページ - ... properties subsist in him peaceably together. The world of spirits and nature have laid all their treasures at his feet: in strength a demi-god, in profundity of view a prophet, in all-seeing wisdom a guardian spirit of a higher order, he lowers himself to mortals as if unconscious of his superiority, and is as open and unassuming as a child.
323 ページ - By the manner in which he has handled it, it has become a glorious song of praise on that inexpressible feeling which ennobles the soul and gives to it its highest sublimity, and which elevates even the senses themselves into soul...
9 ページ - Hence the poetry of the ancients was the poetry of enjoyment, and ours is that of desire : the former has its foundation in the scene which is present, while the latter hovers betwixt recollection and hope.