A Course of Lectures on Dramatic Art and LiteratureBell & Daldy, 1871 - 535 pages |
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... Action ? -Unity of Time - Was it observed by the Greeks ? - Unity of Place as connected with it LECTURE XVIII . Mischief resulting to the French Stage from too narrow Interpreta- tion of the Rules of Unity - Influence of these rules on ...
... Action ? -Unity of Time - Was it observed by the Greeks ? - Unity of Place as connected with it LECTURE XVIII . Mischief resulting to the French Stage from too narrow Interpreta- tion of the Rules of Unity - Influence of these rules on ...
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... action , which like the articles of faith , were elevated far beyond the investigation of a casuistical reasoning . Chivalry , love , and honour , together with religion itself , And this 1 teaching has bugs the vam arine with.
... action , which like the articles of faith , were elevated far beyond the investigation of a casuistical reasoning . Chivalry , love , and honour , together with religion itself , And this 1 teaching has bugs the vam arine with.
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... Action is the true enjoyment of life , nay , life itself . Mere passive enjoyments may lull us into a state of listless complacency , but even then , if pos- sessed of the least internal activity , we cannot avoid being soon wearied ...
... Action is the true enjoyment of life , nay , life itself . Mere passive enjoyments may lull us into a state of listless complacency , but even then , if pos- sessed of the least internal activity , we cannot avoid being soon wearied ...
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... action and gesture ; and that those external circumstances should be added which are necessary to give the hearers a clear idea of what is going forward . Moreover , these representatives of the creatures of his imagination must appear ...
... action and gesture ; and that those external circumstances should be added which are necessary to give the hearers a clear idea of what is going forward . Moreover , these representatives of the creatures of his imagination must appear ...
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... action . When this has once been effected , the poet may all the sooner halt in his rapid career , and indulge the bent of his own genius . There are points , when the most elaborate and polished style , the most enthusiastic lyrics ...
... action . When this has once been effected , the poet may all the sooner halt in his rapid career , and indulge the bent of his own genius . There are points , when the most elaborate and polished style , the most enthusiastic lyrics ...
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Page 350 - 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.
Page 251 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Page 398 - Say, there be ; Yet nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean ; so, o'er that art Which, you say, adds to nature, is an art That nature makes.
Page 372 - This fellow is wise enough to play the fool; And to do that well craves a kind of wit. 60 He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye. This is a practice As full of labour as a wise man's art.