Lectures on Dramatic Literature: Or, The Employment of the Passions in DramaD. Appleton, 1849 - 245 pages |
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... virtue of their title of hero , that they should be a little more so . Hence their contempt of death pushed to exaggeration ; hence their blusterings about their intrepidity and resignation ! The modern drama has endeavored to correct ...
... virtue of their title of hero , that they should be a little more so . Hence their contempt of death pushed to exaggeration ; hence their blusterings about their intrepidity and resignation ! The modern drama has endeavored to correct ...
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... virtue exhibited on the stage , relying upon its own excellence , and deriving all its strength from its own intrinsic power . But when virtue sustains itself against one passion by the aid of another , when it overcomes the fear of ...
... virtue exhibited on the stage , relying upon its own excellence , and deriving all its strength from its own intrinsic power . But when virtue sustains itself against one passion by the aid of another , when it overcomes the fear of ...
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... Virtue does not fear to live ; it resists misfortune and looks it in the face ; and there is no more true contempt of death than not even to desire it . The man who has reached the lowest stage of misery is henceforth in safety ; the ...
... Virtue does not fear to live ; it resists misfortune and looks it in the face ; and there is no more true contempt of death than not even to desire it . The man who has reached the lowest stage of misery is henceforth in safety ; the ...
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... virtue : both of them sacrificed them- selves for honor rather than for their liberty . This is the evil or the weakness of the Stoic philosophy . It elevates man , but it seems that in elevating above the world , it sep- arates him ...
... virtue : both of them sacrificed them- selves for honor rather than for their liberty . This is the evil or the weakness of the Stoic philosophy . It elevates man , but it seems that in elevating above the world , it sep- arates him ...
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... virtue of their insensibility to pleasure and pain , the Stoic becomes a fine brazen statue . How do you wish us to be interested in this cold and inanimate marble ? We place our hand upon his bosom , we feel no pulsation ; we take his ...
... virtue of their insensibility to pleasure and pain , the Stoic becomes a fine brazen statue . How do you wish us to be interested in this cold and inanimate marble ? We place our hand upon his bosom , we feel no pulsation ; we take his ...
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