A Course of Lectures on Dramatic Art and LiteratureBell & Daldy, 1871 - 535 pages |
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... mind . It was also during his residence at Jena that he published the first edition of his Poems , among which the ... minds of a kindred spirit , who gathered round Tieck and Novalis as their centre . His marriage with the daughter of ...
... mind . It was also during his residence at Jena that he published the first edition of his Poems , among which the ... minds of a kindred spirit , who gathered round Tieck and Novalis as their centre . His marriage with the daughter of ...
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... mind , and in 1813 he came forward as a political writer , when his powerful pen was not without its effect in rousing the German mind from the torpor into which it had sunk beneath the victorious military despotism of France . But he ...
... mind , and in 1813 he came forward as a political writer , when his powerful pen was not without its effect in rousing the German mind from the torpor into which it had sunk beneath the victorious military despotism of France . But he ...
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... mind , necessarily throws light upon the conditions which are indispensable to the creation of original and masterly works of art . Ordinarily , indeed , men entertain a very erroneous notion of criticism , and understand by it nothing ...
... mind , necessarily throws light upon the conditions which are indispensable to the creation of original and masterly works of art . Ordinarily , indeed , men entertain a very erroneous notion of criticism , and understand by it nothing ...
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... mind but from an imitation of antiquity , in the works of the moderns they only valued what resembled , or seemed to bear a resemblance to , those of the ancients . Everything 、 else they rejected as barbarous and unnatural . With the ...
... mind but from an imitation of antiquity , in the works of the moderns they only valued what resembled , or seemed to bear a resemblance to , those of the ancients . Everything 、 else they rejected as barbarous and unnatural . With the ...
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... mind at entering a Gothic cathedral . We feel , on the con- trary , a strong desire to investigate and to justify the source of this impression . A very slight attention will convince us , that the Gothic architecture displays not only ...
... mind at entering a Gothic cathedral . We feel , on the con- trary , a strong desire to investigate and to justify the source of this impression . A very slight attention will convince us , that the Gothic architecture displays not only ...
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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.