A Course of Lectures on Dramatic Art and LiteratureBell & Daldy, 1871 - 535 pages |
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... Idea of Fate - Source of the Pleasure derived from Tragical Repre- sentations - Import of the Chorus - The materials of Greek Tragedy derived from Mythology - Comparison with the Plastic Arts LECTURE VI . Progress of the Tragic Art ...
... Idea of Fate - Source of the Pleasure derived from Tragical Repre- sentations - Import of the Chorus - The materials of Greek Tragedy derived from Mythology - Comparison with the Plastic Arts LECTURE VI . Progress of the Tragic Art ...
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... Idea of a National Roman Tragedy - Causes of the want of success of the Romans in Tragedy -Seneca LECTURE XVI . The Italians - Pastoral Dramas of Tisso and Guarini - Small progress in Tragedy - Metastasio and Alfieri - Character of both ...
... Idea of a National Roman Tragedy - Causes of the want of success of the Romans in Tragedy -Seneca LECTURE XVI . The Italians - Pastoral Dramas of Tisso and Guarini - Small progress in Tragedy - Metastasio and Alfieri - Character of both ...
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... Idea of Tragical Dignity - Observation of Conventional Rules- False System of Expositions LECTURE XIX . Use at first made of the Spanish Theatre by the French - General Character of Corneille , Racine , and Voltaire - Review of the prin ...
... Idea of Tragical Dignity - Observation of Conventional Rules- False System of Expositions LECTURE XIX . Use at first made of the Spanish Theatre by the French - General Character of Corneille , Racine , and Voltaire - Review of the prin ...
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... idea which we have been developing , of the universality of true criticism , to the history of poetry and the fine arts . This , like the so - called universal history , we generally limit ( even though beyond this range there may be ...
... idea which we have been developing , of the universality of true criticism , to the history of poetry and the fine arts . This , like the so - called universal history , we generally limit ( even though beyond this range there may be ...
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... idea we have perhaps discovered the true key to the ancient and modern history of poetry and the fine arts . Those who adopted it , gave to the peculiar spirit of modern art , as con- trasted with the antique or classical , the name of ...
... idea we have perhaps discovered the true key to the ancient and modern history of poetry and the fine arts . Those who adopted it , gave to the peculiar spirit of modern art , as con- trasted with the antique or classical , the name of ...
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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.