Elements of Criticism, Volumen2Scott and Seguine, 1819 |
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Página 126
... tragedies ; the tone of the mind is sensi- bly varied by them , from anguish , distress , or me- lancholy , to some degree of ease and alacrity . For the truth of this observation , I appeal to the speech of Jane Shore in the fourth act ...
... tragedies ; the tone of the mind is sensi- bly varied by them , from anguish , distress , or me- lancholy , to some degree of ease and alacrity . For the truth of this observation , I appeal to the speech of Jane Shore in the fourth act ...
Página 128
... tragedy , and may be proper even in French comedy . Voltairet assigns that * Spectator , No. 285 . + Preface to his Oedipus , and in his discourse upon tragedy , prefixed to the tragedy of Brutus . very reason for adhering to rhyme in ...
... tragedy , and may be proper even in French comedy . Voltairet assigns that * Spectator , No. 285 . + Preface to his Oedipus , and in his discourse upon tragedy , prefixed to the tragedy of Brutus . very reason for adhering to rhyme in ...
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... tragedies of his country are little better than conversation - pieces ; which seems to infer , that the French language is weak , and an improper dress for any grand subject . Vol- taire was sensible of the imperfection ; and yet ...
... tragedies of his country are little better than conversation - pieces ; which seems to infer , that the French language is weak , and an improper dress for any grand subject . Vol- taire was sensible of the imperfection ; and yet ...
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... tragedy . In a work where the subject is serious though not elevated , rhyme has not a good effect because the airiness of the melody agrees not with the gravity of the subject : the Essay on Man , which treats a subject great and ...
... tragedy . In a work where the subject is serious though not elevated , rhyme has not a good effect because the airiness of the melody agrees not with the gravity of the subject : the Essay on Man , which treats a subject great and ...
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... tragedy make a better appearance ; the situation there represented being too dispiriting for a simile . A simile is improper for one who dreads the discovery of a secret machination ; Zara . The mute not yet return'd ! Ha ! ' twas the ...
... tragedy make a better appearance ; the situation there represented being too dispiriting for a simile . A simile is improper for one who dreads the discovery of a secret machination ; Zara . The mute not yet return'd ! Ha ! ' twas the ...
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Página 171 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast, Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge. And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deaf ning clamours in the slippery clouds...
Página 235 - There are a sort of men, whose visages Do cream and mantle, like a standing pond...
Página 242 - But whate'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time ; If ever you have look'd on better days, If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church, If ever sat at any good man's feast, If ever from your eyelids wiped a tear And know what 'tis to pity and be pitied, Let gentleness my strong enforcement be : In the which hope I blush, and hide my sword.
Página 142 - He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore ; his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Página 201 - For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant; and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
Página 148 - Give me my Romeo, and when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine, That all the world will be in love with night, And pay no worship to the garish Sun.
Página 233 - One cried, God bless us ! and, Amen, the other ; As they had seen me, with these hangman's hands, Listening their fear. I could not say, amen, When they did say, God bless us.
Página 140 - In these two princely boys! They are as gentle As zephyrs, blowing below the violet, Not wagging his sweet head: and yet as rough, Their royal blood enchafd, as the rud'st wind, That by the top doth take the mountain pine, And make him stoop to the vale.
Página 242 - With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Página 201 - My well-beloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: and he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: And he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.