The Quarterly Review, Volume 105William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1859 |
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... ancient Mysteries , but the national character favoured a form of drama that was in its prime little more than a simple drama of intrigue . Lope paid no more heed than Shakespeare to the unities of Aristotle ; but neither did he regard ...
... ancient Mysteries , but the national character favoured a form of drama that was in its prime little more than a simple drama of intrigue . Lope paid no more heed than Shakespeare to the unities of Aristotle ; but neither did he regard ...
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... ancient stage direction used to be , Introduce here as many and as strange animals as you can . ' Even at this day , we believe , Miracle plays are represented by puppets in the cellars of Berlin , as they were represented in Steele's ...
... ancient stage direction used to be , Introduce here as many and as strange animals as you can . ' Even at this day , we believe , Miracle plays are represented by puppets in the cellars of Berlin , as they were represented in Steele's ...
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... ancient text . The great dramatist , ' he said , ' had struggled into light so disguised and travestied , that no classic author , after having run ten secular stages through the blind blind cloisters of monks and canons , ever came out ...
... ancient text . The great dramatist , ' he said , ' had struggled into light so disguised and travestied , that no classic author , after having run ten secular stages through the blind blind cloisters of monks and canons , ever came out ...
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... ancient triumph - than the symbolical adinonition addressed to the Pope at his coronation . A light pile of flax is presented to him , and is suddenly ignited as the procession stops . The blaze flickers high for an instant , and then ...
... ancient triumph - than the symbolical adinonition addressed to the Pope at his coronation . A light pile of flax is presented to him , and is suddenly ignited as the procession stops . The blaze flickers high for an instant , and then ...
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... ancient order of things subsists they aggravate the ills of misgovernment , and , in fact , prevent all government but that of brute force . In the day of revo- lution Italy has found to her cost that by over - riding all governments ...
... ancient order of things subsists they aggravate the ills of misgovernment , and , in fact , prevent all government but that of brute force . In the day of revo- lution Italy has found to her cost that by over - riding all governments ...
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Página 227 - That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom...
Página 193 - Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help ? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary. and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
Página 20 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night ; and let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days,
Página 220 - Sir, a man has no more right to say an uncivil thing, than to act one; no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down.
Página 178 - I saved appearances tolerably well; but I took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it.
Página 49 - As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for Comedy and Tragedy among the Latins, so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage...
Página 234 - And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them ; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat.
Página 43 - O my love! my wife! Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty: Thou art not conquer'd; beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death's pale flag is not advanced there.
Página 190 - Dear Bathurst (said he to me one day) was a man to my very heart's content : he hated a fool, and he hated a rogue, and he hated a whig; he was a very good hater...
Página 20 - And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament, from the waters which were above the firmament : and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.