A Course of Lectures on Dramatic Art and LiteratureBell & Daldy, 1871 - 535 pages |
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... 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 romantic ...
... 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 romantic ...
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... perhaps too much of sculptors , and the mo- dern sculptors too much of painters . This is the exact point of difference ; for , as I shall distinctly show in the sequel , the spirit of ancient art and poetry is plastic , but that of the ...
... perhaps too much of sculptors , and the mo- dern sculptors too much of painters . This is the exact point of difference ; for , as I shall distinctly show in the sequel , the spirit of ancient art and poetry is plastic , but that of the ...
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... perhaps in every sense of the word ; and I do not doubt , that in the establish- ment of arbitrary rules , and the delicate observance of insig- nificant conventionalities , they leave the most correct Euro- peans very far behind them ...
... perhaps in every sense of the word ; and I do not doubt , that in the establish- ment of arbitrary rules , and the delicate observance of insig- nificant conventionalities , they leave the most correct Euro- peans very far behind them ...
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... perhaps more perfect than the so - called Commedia dell ' Arte , in which , the parts being fixed and invariable , the dialogue is extemporised by masked actors . In the ancient Saturnalia we have probably the germ of the present ...
... perhaps more perfect than the so - called Commedia dell ' Arte , in which , the parts being fixed and invariable , the dialogue is extemporised by masked actors . In the ancient Saturnalia we have probably the germ of the present ...
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... perhaps be accomplished : I know of no trauslation of a Greek tragedian deserving of unqualified praise . But even suppos- ing the translation as perfect as possible , and deviating very slightly from the original , the reader who is ...
... perhaps be accomplished : I know of no trauslation of a Greek tragedian deserving of unqualified praise . But even suppos- ing the translation as perfect as possible , and deviating very slightly from the original , the reader who is ...
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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.