Dissertation on Greek comedy fr. Brumoy. Observations on Macbeth. Adventurer. RasselasNichols and Son, 1801 |
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... greater change will be made in jocularities ? The truth is , that they are fo much changed by the courfe of time , that pleafantry and ridicule become dull and flat much more eafily than the pathetick becomes ridiculous . That which is ...
... greater change will be made in jocularities ? The truth is , that they are fo much changed by the courfe of time , that pleafantry and ridicule become dull and flat much more eafily than the pathetick becomes ridiculous . That which is ...
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... greater licentioufnefs ; nor of thofe which were called Palliates , from the Greek , a cloak , in which the Greek characters were dreffed upon the Roman ftage , because that habit only distinguished the nation , not the dignity or ...
... greater licentioufnefs ; nor of thofe which were called Palliates , from the Greek , a cloak , in which the Greek characters were dreffed upon the Roman ftage , because that habit only distinguished the nation , not the dignity or ...
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... greater genius for comedy " than Lopes de Vega the Spaniard . He had a fertility " of wit , joined with great beauty of conception , and " a wonderful readinefs of compofition ; for he has " written more than three hundred comedies ...
... greater genius for comedy " than Lopes de Vega the Spaniard . He had a fertility " of wit , joined with great beauty of conception , and " a wonderful readinefs of compofition ; for he has " written more than three hundred comedies ...
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Samuel Johnson. In truth , Aristophanes and Plautus united buffoonery and delicacy in a greater degree than Moliere ; and for this they may be blamed . That which then pleased at Athens , and at Rome , was a tranfitory beauty , which had ...
Samuel Johnson. In truth , Aristophanes and Plautus united buffoonery and delicacy in a greater degree than Moliere ; and for this they may be blamed . That which then pleased at Athens , and at Rome , was a tranfitory beauty , which had ...
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... greater or lefs degree ; but as they are men alike , the heart is moved by the fame touches . They both love likewife to fend their thoughts abroad , and to expand themfelves in merri- ment ; but the fprings which muft be touched for ...
... greater or lefs degree ; but as they are men alike , the heart is moved by the fame touches . They both love likewife to fend their thoughts abroad , and to expand themfelves in merri- ment ; but the fprings which muft be touched for ...
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Página 317 - But what would be the security of the good if the bad could at pleasure invade them from the sky? Against an army sailing through the clouds, neither walls nor mountains nor seas could afford any security. A flight of northern savages might hover in the wind and light at once with irresistible violence upon the capital of a fruitful region that was rolling under them.
Página 329 - The business of a poet," said Imlac, "is to examine not the individual but the species, to remark general properties and large appearances; he does not number the streaks of the tulip or describe the different shades in the verdure of the forest.
Página 316 - Nile through all his passage; pass over to distant regions, and examine the face of nature from one extremity of the earth to the other!
Página 305 - Man surely has some latent sense for which this place affords no gratification, or he has some desires distinct from sense which must be satisfied before he can be happy.
Página 389 - Whoever thou art that, not content with a moderate condition, imaginest happiness in royal magnificence, and dreamest that command or riches can feed the appetite of novelty with perpetual gratifications, survey the Pyramids, and confess thy folly!
Página 95 - Implored your highness' pardon and set forth A deep repentance: nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it; he died As one that had been studied in his death, To throw away the dearest thing he owed As 'twere a careless trifle.
Página 378 - ... after conformity of opinions, similarity of manners, rectitude of judgment, or purity of sentiment?
Página 89 - Tiger: But in a sieve I'll thither sail, And, like a rat without a tail, I'll do, I'll do, and I'll do.
Página 441 - ... to found a college of learned women, in which she would preside, that by conversing with the old, and educating the young, she might divide her time between the acquisition and communication of wisdom, and raise up for the next age models of prudence, and patterns of piety.
Página 415 - I have possessed for five years the regulation of the weather, and the distribution of the seasons ; the sun has listened to my dictates, and passed from tropic to tropic by my direction ; the clouds, at my call, have poured their waters, and the Nile has overflowed at my command ; I have restrained the rage of the dog-star, and mitigated the fervours of the crab.