A Course of Lectures on Dramatic Art and LiteratureBell & Daldy, 1871 - 535 pages |
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... altogether untenable . Genius is the almost unconscious choice of the highest degree of excellence , and , consequently , it is taste in its highest activity . " In this state , nearly , matters continued till a period not far back ...
... altogether untenable . Genius is the almost unconscious choice of the highest degree of excellence , and , consequently , it is taste in its highest activity . " In this state , nearly , matters continued till a period not far back ...
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... altogether turn aside his thoughts from infinity , and some obscure recollections will always remind him of the home he has lost ; but we are now speak- ing of the predominant tendency of his endeavours . Religion is the root of human ...
... altogether turn aside his thoughts from infinity , and some obscure recollections will always remind him of the home he has lost ; but we are now speak- ing of the predominant tendency of his endeavours . Religion is the root of human ...
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... altogether a nation of artists , and the Romans a practical people . Among the latter the fine arts were introduced as a corrupting article of luxury , both betokening and accelerating the degeneracy of the times . They carried this ...
... altogether a nation of artists , and the Romans a practical people . Among the latter the fine arts were introduced as a corrupting article of luxury , both betokening and accelerating the degeneracy of the times . They carried this ...
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... altogether prosaic and empirical , that is to say , patched together by the under- standing out of the observations it has gathered from literal reality . But how does a dramatic work become theatrical , or fitted to appear with ...
... altogether prosaic and empirical , that is to say , patched together by the under- standing out of the observations it has gathered from literal reality . But how does a dramatic work become theatrical , or fitted to appear with ...
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... altogether fruitless . I , for my part , am disposed to believe that poetry , as the fervid expression of our whole being , must assume new and peculiar forms in different ages . Nevertheless , I cherish an enthusiastic veneration for ...
... altogether fruitless . I , for my part , am disposed to believe that poetry , as the fervid expression of our whole being , must assume new and peculiar forms in different ages . Nevertheless , I cherish an enthusiastic veneration for ...
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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.