Lectures on Dramatic Literature: Or, The Employment of the Passions in DramaD. Appleton, 1849 - 245 pages |
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... expression that the literary critic writes , without designing it , the history of the world . The love of life is the strongest and most universal sen- timent of the human heart . " Better be a peasant alive than an emperor dead ...
... expression that the literary critic writes , without designing it , the history of the world . The love of life is the strongest and most universal sen- timent of the human heart . " Better be a peasant alive than an emperor dead ...
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... expressions of the sentiments of the love of life from the days of the Greeks to our own times ; and in order to accomplish this purpose to best advantage , we will select a few of the characters of the ancient and mo- dern drama ...
... expressions of the sentiments of the love of life from the days of the Greeks to our own times ; and in order to accomplish this purpose to best advantage , we will select a few of the characters of the ancient and mo- dern drama ...
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... expression of regret . This reserve is more virtuous , but it is less dramatic . Besides the difference of feelings there is also a striking difference between the ideas of the Iphigenia of Racine , and the Iphigenia of Euripides . The ...
... expression of regret . This reserve is more virtuous , but it is less dramatic . Besides the difference of feelings there is also a striking difference between the ideas of the Iphigenia of Racine , and the Iphigenia of Euripides . The ...
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... expression ; and this mixture of opposite sentiments shows how the two poets understood dramatic effect . They knew that one sentiment alone , an exclusive sentiment , was not sufficient to produce emotion . It may produce a scene , but ...
... expression ; and this mixture of opposite sentiments shows how the two poets understood dramatic effect . They knew that one sentiment alone , an exclusive sentiment , was not sufficient to produce emotion . It may produce a scene , but ...
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... expression of such grief , but because he could do so only by giving to the countenance of the hero an agitation which would have disfigured it . Sculpture has represented the children of Niobe , some already dead and others expiring ...
... expression of such grief , but because he could do so only by giving to the countenance of the hero an agitation which would have disfigured it . Sculpture has represented the children of Niobe , some already dead and others expiring ...
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Page 141 - And my poor fool is hang'd ! No, no, no life ! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all?
Page 51 - Paul stood forth in the midst of them, and said, Sirs, ye should have hearkened unto me, and not have loosed from Crete, and to have gained this harm and loss. 22 And now I exhort you to be of good cheer: for there shall be no loss of any man's life among you, but of the ship.
Page 93 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Page 52 - For there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve, saying, Fear not, Paul ; thou must be brought before Caesar ; and, lo, God hath given thee all them that sail with thee.
Page 52 - And while the day was coming on, Paul besought them all to take meat, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye have tarried, and continued fasting, having taken nothing.
Page 52 - And when he had thus spoken, he took bread, and gave thanks to God in presence of them all; and when he had broken it, he began to eat.
Page 27 - Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin?
Page 134 - Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks ! rage ! blow ! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drench'd our steeples, drown'd the cocks ! You sulphurous and thought-executing fires, Vaunt-couriers of oak-cleaving thunderbolts, Singe my white head ! And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o...
Page 53 - God is our refuge and strength ; a very present help in trouble. Therefore will we not fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea ; Though the waters thereof roar aud be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof.
Page 134 - Spit, fire ! spout, rain ! Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire, are my daughters: I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness ; I never gave you kingdom, call'd you children, You owe me no subscription: then, let fall Your horrible pleasure; here I stand, your slave, A poor, infirm, weak, and...