The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Volume 41811 A drama is appended to each number of v. 1-2 |
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... RACINE to per- fect . JEAN RACINE was born at Ferte - Milon , December , 1639 . At what age he went to school historians are not agreed upon ; but one should suppose he was not very young , for it is said that he made a progress in ...
... RACINE to per- fect . JEAN RACINE was born at Ferte - Milon , December , 1639 . At what age he went to school historians are not agreed upon ; but one should suppose he was not very young , for it is said that he made a progress in ...
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... RACINE found means to get a second copy , which shared the same fate . He then bought a third , and having taken a short time to examine it , took it to his master , and told him he might also burn that , for he had got it by heart ...
... RACINE found means to get a second copy , which shared the same fate . He then bought a third , and having taken a short time to examine it , took it to his master , and told him he might also burn that , for he had got it by heart ...
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... RACINE had a very indifferent opinion , so won him that he fell violently in love with her ; and MONTFLEURY , in ... RACINE's only attempt at comedy . A domestic circumstance is said to have given rise to the story ; and the characters ...
... RACINE had a very indifferent opinion , so won him that he fell violently in love with her ; and MONTFLEURY , in ... RACINE's only attempt at comedy . A domestic circumstance is said to have given rise to the story ; and the characters ...
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... RACINE into considerable fame ; he brought out Mithridate when this great man , who had perfected every species of dramatic entertainment in FRANCE , was ungrate- fully shunned and neglected . He might have said with POMPEY , " Dost ...
... RACINE into considerable fame ; he brought out Mithridate when this great man , who had perfected every species of dramatic entertainment in FRANCE , was ungrate- fully shunned and neglected . He might have said with POMPEY , " Dost ...
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... Racine , and the other circum- stances that intervened between the retirement of Corneille and his return to the dramatic poetry . We will now take him up where we left him , and employ the short remainder of this volume to speak of him ...
... Racine , and the other circum- stances that intervened between the retirement of Corneille and his return to the dramatic poetry . We will now take him up where we left him , and employ the short remainder of this volume to speak of him ...
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Page 117 - O, reason not the need : our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous: Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's: thou art a lady; If only to go warm were gorgeous, Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st, Which scarcely keeps thee warm.
Page 47 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve; the censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
Page 389 - Hath seal'd thee for herself; for thou hast been As one, in suffering all, that suffers nothing, A man that fortune's buffets and rewards Hast ta'en with equal thanks...
Page 391 - Why, this is hire and salary, not revenge. He took my father grossly, full of bread ; With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May j And, how his audit stands, who knows, save heaven?
Page 55 - ... the real state of sublunary nature, which partakes of good and evil, joy and sorrow, mingled with endless variety of proportion and innumerable modes of combination; and expressing the course of the world, in which the loss of one is the gain of another; in which, at the same time, the reveller is hasting to his wine, and the mourner burying his friend; in which the malignity of one is sometimes defeated by the frolic of another; and many mischiefs and many benefits are done and hindered without...
Page 118 - Stain my man's cheeks ! — No, you unnatural hags, I will have such revenges on you both, That all the world shall — I will do such things, — What they are, yet I know not ; but they shall be The terrors of the earth. You think I'll weep ; No, I'll not weep.
Page 389 - There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave, To tell us this. Ham. Why, right; you are in the right ; And so, without more circumstance at all, I hold it fit, that we shake hands, and part: You, as your business, and desire, shall point you; — For every man...
Page 388 - Who calls me villain ? breaks my pate across? Plucks off my beard, and blows it in my face ? Tweaks me by the nose ? gives me the lie i' the throat, As deep as to the lungs ? Who does me this ? Ha!
Page 59 - I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: — the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Page 52 - I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another: you jig, you amble, and you lisp, and nickname God's creatures, and make your wantonness your ignorance.