A Course of Lectures on Dramatic Art and LiteratureBell & Daldy, 1871 - 535 pages |
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... Attempts - The Heroic Opera : Quinault - Operettes and Vaudevilles - Diderot's attempted Change of the Theatre - The Weeping Drama - Beaumarchais- Melo - Dramas - Merits and Defects of the Histrionic Art . LECTURE XXII . Comparison of ...
... Attempts - The Heroic Opera : Quinault - Operettes and Vaudevilles - Diderot's attempted Change of the Theatre - The Weeping Drama - Beaumarchais- Melo - Dramas - Merits and Defects of the Histrionic Art . LECTURE XXII . Comparison of ...
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... attempt to naturalize the Italian sonnet in Germany . Towards the end of his university career he combined his own studies with the private instruction of a rich young Englishman , born in the East Indies , and at the close of it ...
... attempt to naturalize the Italian sonnet in Germany . Towards the end of his university career he combined his own studies with the private instruction of a rich young Englishman , born in the East Indies , and at the close of it ...
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... attempt to realize those laws . For this purpose , certain scientific investigations are indispensable to the artist , although they have but little attraction for those whose admiration of art is confined to the enjoyment of the actual ...
... attempt to realize those laws . For this purpose , certain scientific investigations are indispensable to the artist , although they have but little attraction for those whose admiration of art is confined to the enjoyment of the actual ...
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... attempting . We will quarrel with no man for his pre- dilection either for the Grecian or the Gothic . The world is wide , and affords room for a great diversity of objects . Nar- row and blindly adopted prepossessions will never ...
... attempting . We will quarrel with no man for his pre- dilection either for the Grecian or the Gothic . The world is wide , and affords room for a great diversity of objects . Nar- row and blindly adopted prepossessions will never ...
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... attempts of the same kind , more or less earnest , have at times , especially of late , been made in tragedy ; for in comedy , the form under which it appears in Plautus and Terence has certainly been more generally prevalent . Of all ...
... attempts of the same kind , more or less earnest , have at times , especially of late , been made in tragedy ; for in comedy , the form under which it appears in Plautus and Terence has certainly been more generally prevalent . Of all ...
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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.
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