Shakespeare. Ben Jonson. Beaumont and Fletcher: Notes and LecturesE. Howell, 1874 - 318 páginas |
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... truth ; the proper and immediate object of poetry is the communication of immediate plea- sure . This definition is useful ; but as it would include novels and other works of fiction , which yet we do not call poems , there must be some ...
... truth ; the proper and immediate object of poetry is the communication of immediate plea- sure . This definition is useful ; but as it would include novels and other works of fiction , which yet we do not call poems , there must be some ...
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... truths of nature and of the human heart , united with a constant activity modifying and correcting these truths by that sort of pleasur- able emotion , which the exertion of all our facul- ties gives in a certain degree ; but which can ...
... truths of nature and of the human heart , united with a constant activity modifying and correcting these truths by that sort of pleasur- able emotion , which the exertion of all our facul- ties gives in a certain degree ; but which can ...
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... truth of character , not so far indeed as that a bona fide individual should be described or imagined , but yet so that the features which give interest and perma- nence to the class should be individualized . The old tragedy moved in ...
... truth of character , not so far indeed as that a bona fide individual should be described or imagined , but yet so that the features which give interest and perma- nence to the class should be individualized . The old tragedy moved in ...
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... truth they were ) the ideal representatives of the real audience , and of the poet himself in his own character , assuming the supposed impressions made by the drama , in order to direct and rule them . But when the chorus itself formed ...
... truth they were ) the ideal representatives of the real audience , and of the poet himself in his own character , assuming the supposed impressions made by the drama , in order to direct and rule them . But when the chorus itself formed ...
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... truth , and permitting a larger field of moral instruction , a more ample exhibition of the recesses of the human heart , under all the trials and circumstances that most concern us , than was known or guessed at by Eschylus , Sophocles ...
... truth , and permitting a larger field of moral instruction , a more ample exhibition of the recesses of the human heart , under all the trials and circumstances that most concern us , than was known or guessed at by Eschylus , Sophocles ...
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Página 162 - This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea...
Página 125 - Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks ; her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive of her body.
Página 150 - tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door ; but 'tis enough, 'twill «erve : ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered, I warrant, for this world : — A plague o...
Página 221 - I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: — the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Página 239 - 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 34 - So that if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth the most remote regions in participation of their fruits, how much more are letters to be magnified, which as ships pass through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other?
Página 96 - From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire ; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world...
Página 4 - ... while it blends and harmonizes the natural and the artificial, still subordinates art to nature; the manner to the matter; and our admiration of the poet to our sympathy with the poetry.
Página 46 - Lo, here the gentle lark, weary of rest, From his moist cabinet mounts up on high, And wakes the morning, from whose silver breast The sun ariseth in his majesty; Who doth the world so gloriously behold, That cedar-tops and hills seem burnish'd gold.
Página 196 - This is some fellow, Who, having been praised for bluntness, doth affect A saucy roughness ; and constrains the garb Quite from his nature : ,he cannot flatter, he ! — An honest mind and plain, — he must speak truth ! An they will take it, so ; if not, he's plain.