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... tone . In the time of Louis the Fourteenth , the traditionary belief respecting the most important con- cerns of humanity remained undisturbed ; and in poetry , the object was not so much to enrich the mind , as to form it by means of a ...
... tone . In the time of Louis the Fourteenth , the traditionary belief respecting the most important con- cerns of humanity remained undisturbed ; and in poetry , the object was not so much to enrich the mind , as to form it by means of a ...
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... tone and the situations , in the first acts , incline very much to comedy , as has already been observed by Voltaire . A female , who has married against her inclinations from obedience to her father , who declares both to her lover ...
... tone and the situations , in the first acts , incline very much to comedy , as has already been observed by Voltaire . A female , who has married against her inclinations from obedience to her father , who declares both to her lover ...
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... tone which runs throughout the speeches of the hero . This is nearly all that now appears of Corneille on the stage . His later works are , throughout , merely treatises in a pompous dialogical form , on reasons of state in certain ...
... tone which runs throughout the speeches of the hero . This is nearly all that now appears of Corneille on the stage . His later works are , throughout , merely treatises in a pompous dialogical form , on reasons of state in certain ...
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... tone of the whole , and the impression which it is intended to produce . All the interest is centred in Monime : she is one of the amiable creations of Racine , and excites in us a tender commiseration . On no work of this poet will the ...
... tone of the whole , and the impression which it is intended to produce . All the interest is centred in Monime : she is one of the amiable creations of Racine , and excites in us a tender commiseration . On no work of this poet will the ...
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... tone harmonizes with the manners which are depicted . Still less am I disposed to agree with La Harpe , when he says that Tullia ought to display proud and heroic sentiments , like Emilia in Cinna , to serve as a counterpoise to the ...
... tone harmonizes with the manners which are depicted . Still less am I disposed to agree with La Harpe , when he says that Tullia ought to display proud and heroic sentiments , like Emilia in Cinna , to serve as a counterpoise to the ...
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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.