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A Course of Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature - Page xxvi
by August Wilhelm von Schlegel - 1840
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Comedies. Two gentlemen of Verona

William Shakespeare - 1847 - 760 pages
...demand any thing from the spectators which their previous habits had not fitted them to understand. Shakespeare concentering the interest on itself, but used merely as an induction or tuning for what is to follow....
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Shakespeare's Plays: With His Life, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1847 - 726 pages
...demand any thing from the spectators which their previous habits had not fitted them to understand. rdon, sir ; error : he is not quantity enough for...audience? he shall present Hercules in minority : concentering the interest on itself, but used merely as an induction or tuning for what is to follow....
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Notes and Lectures Upon Shakespeare and Some of the Old Poets and ..., Volume 1

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1849 - 398 pages
...demand any thing1 from the spectators, which their previous habits had not fitted them to understand. It is the bustle of a tempest, from which the real...often alluded) — and is purposely restrained from concentering the interest on itself, but used merely as an induction or tuning for what is to follow....
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Notes and Lectures Upon Shakespeare and Some of the Old Poets and ..., Volume 1

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1849 - 398 pages
...demand any thing from the spectators, which their previous habits had not fitted them to understand. It is the bustle of a tempest, from which the real horrors arc abstracted ; — therefore it is poetical, though not in strictness natural — (the distinction...
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The Works of Shakespeare: the Text Carefully Restored According to the First ...

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 500 pages
...admirably appropriate to the kind of drama, and giving, as it were, the key-note to the whole harmony. It is the bustle of a tempest, from which the real...often alluded) — and is purposely restrained from concentering the interest on itself, but is used merely as an induction or tuning for what is to follow."...
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The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an ..., Volume 4

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 556 pages
...demand any thing from the spectators, which their previous habits had not fitted them to understand. It is the bustle of a tempest, from which the real...often alluded) — and is purposely restrained from concentering the interest on itself, but used merely as an induction or tuning for what is to follow....
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The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an ..., Volume 4

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 494 pages
...withdraw the mind from the proper and only legitimate interest which is intended to spring from within. strictness natural — (the distinction to which I...often alluded) — and is purposely restrained from concentering the interest on itself, but used merely as an induction or tuning for what is to follow....
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The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an ..., Volume 4

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 502 pages
...demand any thing from the spectators, which their previous habits had not fitted them to understand. It is the bustle of a tempest, from which the real...often alluded) — and is purposely restrained from concentering the interest on itself, but used merely as an induction or tuning for what is to follow....
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The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an ..., Volume 4

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1858 - 508 pages
...withdraw the mind from the proper and only legitimate interest which is intended to spring from within. strictness natural — (the distinction to which I...often alluded) — and is purposely restrained from concentering the interest on itself, but used merely as an induction or tuning for what is to follow....
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Religious and Moral Sentences Culled from the Works of Shakespeare, Compared ...

Sir Frederick Beilby Watson - 1859 - 254 pages
...admirably appropriate to the kind of drama, and giving, as it were, the key-note to the whole harmony. It is the bustle of a tempest, from which the real horrors arc abstracted ; — therefore it is poetical, though not in strictness natural — (the distinction...
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