Periods of European Literature, Volume 7C. Scribner's sons, 1906 |
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Página 61
... eloquent , although dramatically irrelevant , closing prophecy of the liberation of Holland , the rise of the House of Nassau , the daring of Dutch navigators , and the greatness of Amsterdam . Baeto dramatises a mythical story of the ...
... eloquent , although dramatically irrelevant , closing prophecy of the liberation of Holland , the rise of the House of Nassau , the daring of Dutch navigators , and the greatness of Amsterdam . Baeto dramatises a mythical story of the ...
Página 64
... eloquence . The best popular plays are the farces , often unspeakably coarse . The scholarly drama , on the other hand , passed from Hooft to Vondel , a great lyrical poet certainly , but not - the man to do what Shakespeare effected ...
... eloquence . The best popular plays are the farces , often unspeakably coarse . The scholarly drama , on the other hand , passed from Hooft to Vondel , a great lyrical poet certainly , but not - the man to do what Shakespeare effected ...
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... eloquence . Even the choral odes are not undramatic excrescences . The chorus of angels takes an active part in the debates , and their songs are evoked naturally and directly by the events of the moment . The faults of the tragedy are ...
... eloquence . Even the choral odes are not undramatic excrescences . The chorus of angels takes an active part in the debates , and their songs are evoked naturally and directly by the events of the moment . The faults of the tragedy are ...
Página 107
... eloquent commenda- tion bestowed on them by Hazlitt . They are like a drawing in which the lines are very few but intensely significant . " It is as if there were some fine art to chisel thought and to embody the inmost ENGLISH DRAMA . 107.
... eloquent commenda- tion bestowed on them by Hazlitt . They are like a drawing in which the lines are very few but intensely significant . " It is as if there were some fine art to chisel thought and to embody the inmost ENGLISH DRAMA . 107.
Página 110
... eloquent morality are surrounded by others of gay but coarse buffoonery . The scenes in Middleton's tragedy The Changeling ( 1623 , published 1653 ) -in which he collaborated with William Rowley - that lead up to and include the crisis ...
... eloquent morality are surrounded by others of gay but coarse buffoonery . The scenes in Middleton's tragedy The Changeling ( 1623 , published 1653 ) -in which he collaborated with William Rowley - that lead up to and include the crisis ...
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