Anecdotes of Polite Literature ...G. Burnet, 1764 |
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... just length ; the ftile of which is agreeable and diversified , and which , without the assist- ance of narration , by means of compaf- fion and terror perfectly refines in us all forts of paffions . The most important part of tragedy ...
... just length ; the ftile of which is agreeable and diversified , and which , without the assist- ance of narration , by means of compaf- fion and terror perfectly refines in us all forts of paffions . The most important part of tragedy ...
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... just ob- fervation is no where more apparent than in the French tragedies in general : the delicacy of their nation requires the fricteft adherence to the unities ; and it does not require any great fagacity to ob ferve , that in most ...
... just ob- fervation is no where more apparent than in the French tragedies in general : the delicacy of their nation requires the fricteft adherence to the unities ; and it does not require any great fagacity to ob ferve , that in most ...
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... just and precife idea of the agitations of a heart over which they tyrannize . Secondly , our heart must have very little inclination . to fuch paffions as we have been in- fenfible of , at twenty - five years of age . The heart attains ...
... just and precife idea of the agitations of a heart over which they tyrannize . Secondly , our heart must have very little inclination . to fuch paffions as we have been in- fenfible of , at twenty - five years of age . The heart attains ...
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... just at that inftant , recollects that he is poisoned , and turns from his wife This gives rife to one of the finest fcenes of diftrefs that ever was imagined : He talks of poifon ; fhe catches the word ; and , trembling , afks his ...
... just at that inftant , recollects that he is poisoned , and turns from his wife This gives rife to one of the finest fcenes of diftrefs that ever was imagined : He talks of poifon ; fhe catches the word ; and , trembling , afks his ...
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... just observations on the theatre : his remark on villains in tragedy is extremely juft . " On me dira que dans ces pieces le crime est toujours puni , & la vertu toujours récompensée . Je réponds que , quand cela feroit , la plû- part ...
... just observations on the theatre : his remark on villains in tragedy is extremely juft . " On me dira que dans ces pieces le crime est toujours puni , & la vertu toujours récompensée . Je réponds que , quand cela feroit , la plû- part ...
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Page 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!
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Page 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...
Page 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.
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