An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakspeare, Compared with the Greek and French Dramatic Poets: With Some Remarks Upon the Misrepresentations of Mons. de Voltaire ...Harding and Wright, 1810 - 296 páginas |
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... representation of a really existing character . But it must be acknowledged , that , when this objection is obviated , there will yet remain another cause of censure ; for though our Author , from want of delicacy , or from a desire to ...
... representation of a really existing character . But it must be acknowledged , that , when this objection is obviated , there will yet remain another cause of censure ; for though our Author , from want of delicacy , or from a desire to ...
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... representations of an action . It will hardly be allowed to those who fail in the most essential part of an art , to set up their performances as models . Can they who have robbed the Tragic Muse of all her virtue , and divested her of ...
... representations of an action . It will hardly be allowed to those who fail in the most essential part of an art , to set up their performances as models . Can they who have robbed the Tragic Muse of all her virtue , and divested her of ...
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... representation . Segniùs irritant anímos demissa per aurem , Quàm quæ sunt oculis subjecta fidelibus , et quæ Ipse sibi tradit spectator . The business of the Drama is to excite sympathy ; and its effect on the spectator depends on such ...
... representation . Segniùs irritant anímos demissa per aurem , Quàm quæ sunt oculis subjecta fidelibus , et quæ Ipse sibi tradit spectator . The business of the Drama is to excite sympathy ; and its effect on the spectator depends on such ...
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... representation falls in- tirely short of the intention of the Drama : and indeed many plays are little more than poems rehearsed ; and the theatrical deco- rations are used rather to improve the spectacle , than to assist the drama , of ...
... representation falls in- tirely short of the intention of the Drama : and indeed many plays are little more than poems rehearsed ; and the theatrical deco- rations are used rather to improve the spectacle , than to assist the drama , of ...
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... representations made use of a diction , which united the harmony of verse to the easy and natural air of prose , and was suited to the movement and bustle of action , be- ing considered only as subservient to the fable , and not as the ...
... representations made use of a diction , which united the harmony of verse to the easy and natural air of prose , and was suited to the movement and bustle of action , be- ing considered only as subservient to the fable , and not as the ...
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absurd action admired Æschylus affected allegory ambition ancient ANTONY appears Aristotle Atossa Augustus battle of Shrewsbury blank-verse blood Brutus Cassius character CHARON Cinna conspiracy conspirators Corneille critic crown dæmons danger danger death dialogue drama Edipus ELPINICE Emilia Euripides Eurystheus excite fable Falstaffe fear French friends genius ghost give glory grace Grecian Greek hath heart heav'n Henry Hercules heroes honour human imagination imitation judgment Julius Cæsar kind king lady learned lover Macbeth manners means ment mind moral murder muse nature Nervii never noble passions perfect person piece play PLEBEIAN PLUTARCH poet poetry Prince racters rendered representation ridicule Roman Rome says scene secret sentiments Shak Shakspeare Shakspeare's shew sion soliloquy Sophocles soul speak spectator speech spirit stage sublime superstition Tacitus taste tell temper terror thee Theseus thing thou tion tragedians tragedy translation virtue Voltaire vulgar witches words writers
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Página 233 - Would he were fatter ! But I fear him not : Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much ; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men...
Página 240 - Which, like dumb mouths, do ope their ruby lips, To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue — A curse shall light upon the limbs of men ; Domestic fury and fierce civil strife Shall cumber all the parts of Italy...
Página 175 - It will have blood, they say ; blood will have blood : Stones have been known to move, and trees to speak ; Augurs, and understood relations, have By magot-pies, and choughs, and rooks, brought forth The secret'st man of blood.
Página 242 - When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept. Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says, he was ambitious ; And Brutus is an honourable man. You all did see, that, on the Lupercal, I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse.
Página 228 - Many a time and oft Have you climb'd up to walls and battlements, To towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops, Your infants in your arms, and there have sat The live-long day, with patient expectation, To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome...
Página 246 - I tell you that which you yourselves do know; Show you sweet Caesar's wounds, poor poor dumb mouths, And bid them speak for me: but were I Brutus, And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony Would ruffle up your spirits and put a tongue In every wound of Caesar that should move The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.
Página 150 - I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul ; freeze thy young blood ; Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres ; Thy knotted and combined locks to part ; And each particular hair to stand an end. Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood.
Página 239 - He only, in a general honest thought, And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man!
Página 241 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil, that men do, lives after them ; The good is oft interred with their bones : So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus Hath told you, Caesar was ambitious : If it were so, it was a grievous fault, And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it. Here, under leave of Brutus, and the rest, (For Brutus- is an honorable man ; So are they all, all honorable men) Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral.
Página 242 - Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest, For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men; Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral. He was my friend, faithful and just to me: But Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man.