Anecdotes of Polite Literature ...G. Burnet, 1764 |
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... has been the cafe from Ariftotle to Voltaire ; and amongst fuch an infinity of critics , few have done any real fervice to the fubject of their enqui- VOL . III . B enquiries , Let us confider tragedy un- der those heads ANECDOTES ...
... has been the cafe from Ariftotle to Voltaire ; and amongst fuch an infinity of critics , few have done any real fervice to the fubject of their enqui- VOL . III . B enquiries , Let us confider tragedy un- der those heads ANECDOTES ...
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... critic defines tragedy to be an imitation of an action that is grave , entire , and hath a just length ; the ftile of which is agreeable and diversified , and which , without the assist- ance of narration , by means of compaf- fion and ...
... critic defines tragedy to be an imitation of an action that is grave , entire , and hath a just length ; the ftile of which is agreeable and diversified , and which , without the assist- ance of narration , by means of compaf- fion and ...
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... critic regarded Oedipus as the finest fubject for tragedy the wit of man ever thought of . Let us take a view of the fable . The scene opens with a sacrifice which a great number of Thebans are making in the court of Oedipus's palace ...
... critic regarded Oedipus as the finest fubject for tragedy the wit of man ever thought of . Let us take a view of the fable . The scene opens with a sacrifice which a great number of Thebans are making in the court of Oedipus's palace ...
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... critics are of fo many different opinions . The unity of time is alfo of great importance with fome cri- tics ; but this is not so perfectly settled The happiest of all fubjects for tragedy , if fuch a one could be invented , would be ...
... critics are of fo many different opinions . The unity of time is alfo of great importance with fome cri- tics ; but this is not so perfectly settled The happiest of all fubjects for tragedy , if fuch a one could be invented , would be ...
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... critics will allow . It has often been afferted that the time fhould not exceed the reprefentation and a faultless piece compofed by the exacteft rules of criticism will be formed on that plan ; but a thousand fertile and poetic ...
... critics will allow . It has often been afferted that the time fhould not exceed the reprefentation and a faultless piece compofed by the exacteft rules of criticism will be formed on that plan ; but a thousand fertile and poetic ...
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الصفحة 134 - That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth! Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month, Let me not think on't: Frailty, thy name is woman!
الصفحة 185 - Good heav'ns, is this, — is this the man who braves me? Who bids my age make way, drives me before him, To the world's ridge, and sweeps me off like rubbish?
الصفحة 135 - Let me not think on't; frailty, thy name is woman A little month, or ere those shoes were old With which she...
الصفحة 42 - James, in which this tragedy was written, many circumstances concurred to propagate and confirm this opinion. The king, who was much celebrated for his knowledge, had, before his arrival in England, not only examined in person a woman accused of witchcraft but had given a very formal account of the practices and...
الصفحة 135 - ... uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules: within a month, Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married.
الصفحة 40 - IN order to make a true estimate of the abilities and merit of a writer, it is always necessary to examine the genius of his age, and the opinions of his contemporaries.
الصفحة 43 - Shakespeare might be easily allowed to found a play, especially since he has followed with great exactness such histories as were then thought true ; nor can it be doubted that the scenes of enchantment, however they may now be ridiculed, were both by himself and his audience thought awful and affecting.
الصفحة 135 - But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two: So excellent a king; that was, to this, Hyperion to a...
الصفحة 85 - I arrest you in the name of mercy, And dare compel your stay: Is then one look, One word, one moment, a last moment too, When I stand tottering on the brink of death, A cruel ignominious death, too much For one that loves like me ? A length of years You may devote to my blest rival's arms, I ask but one short moment.
الصفحة 96 - Christian, thou mistak'st my character. Look on me. Who am I ? I know, thou say'st The Moor, a slave, an abject, beaten slave (Eternal woes to him that made me so!): But look again. Has six years cruel bondage...