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... example , Attila , in the plot , bears a striking resemblance to Rodogune . In his own decisions , it is impossible not to be struck with the very unessential things on which he puts a stress , and that he should never once consider the ...
... example , Attila , in the plot , bears a striking resemblance to Rodogune . In his own decisions , it is impossible not to be struck with the very unessential things on which he puts a stress , and that he should never once consider the ...
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... example of which was given in Heraclius . - Thus , Orestes in his Electra first becomes known to himself towards the middle of the piece . The brother and sister , and a son and daughter of Ægisthus are nearly exclusively occupied with ...
... example of which was given in Heraclius . - Thus , Orestes in his Electra first becomes known to himself towards the middle of the piece . The brother and sister , and a son and daughter of Ægisthus are nearly exclusively occupied with ...
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... example of the revival of the Greek tragedy , an undertaking of so great difficulty , and so long announced with every kind of preparation . Its real merit is the exclusion of the traditional love scenes ( of which , however , Racine ...
... example of the revival of the Greek tragedy , an undertaking of so great difficulty , and so long announced with every kind of preparation . Its real merit is the exclusion of the traditional love scenes ( of which , however , Racine ...
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... example is lost . As the French are in general better acquainted with the Romans than the Greeks , we might expect the Roman pieces of Voltaire to be more consistent , in a political point of view , with historical truth , than his ...
... example is lost . As the French are in general better acquainted with the Romans than the Greeks , we might expect the Roman pieces of Voltaire to be more consistent , in a political point of view , with historical truth , than his ...
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... examples of fathers in Rome who condemned their own sons to death for crimes of state ; the law gave fathers an unlimited power of life and death over their children in their own houses . But the murder of a father , though under- taken ...
... examples of fathers in Rome who condemned their own sons to death for crimes of state ; the law gave fathers an unlimited power of life and death over their children in their own houses . But the murder of a father , though under- taken ...
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Página 207 - Tis two or three, my lord, that bring you word, Macduff is fled to England. Macb. Fled to England ? Len. Ay, my good lord. Macb. Time, thou anticipat'st my dread exploits : The flighty purpose never is o'ertook, Unless the deed go with it : from this moment, The very firstlings of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand.
Página 188 - By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Página 112 - One that was a woman, sir; but, rest her soul, she 's dead. Ham. How absolute the knave is ! we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us. By the Lord, Horatio, these three years I have taken note of it ; the age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe.— How long hast thou been a grave-maker? 1 Clo. Of all the days i' the year, I came to't that day that our last King Hamlet o'ercame Fortinbras.
Página 313 - Among the maxims examined and confuted is one that was cherished by the mercantilist economic writers of the last half of the seventeenth and the first half of the eighteenth centuries : that people are the riches of a nation. The passage in which this maxim is presented would seem to be the germ of A modest proposal...
Página 115 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Página 242 - Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts ; Into a thousand parts divide one man, And make imaginary puissance ; Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i...
Página 188 - Say there be ; Yet nature is made better by no mean But nature makes that mean : so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes.
Página 139 - ... spectacles, is one of much greater importance. He has never, in fact, varnished over wild and bloodthirsty passions with a pleasing exterior, — never clothed crime and want of principle with a false show of greatness of soul ; and in that respect he is every way deserving of praise. Twice he has...
Página 282 - And thus still doing, thus he pass'd along. DUCH. Alas, poor Richard! where rides he the whilst? YORK. As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-grac'd actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious : Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes Did scowl on Richard ; no man cried, God save him...
Página 192 - Whatever is most intoxicating in the odour of a southern spring, languishing in the song of the nightingale, or voluptuous in the first opening of the rose, is to be found in this poem.