The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners : with Strictures on Their Epitome, the Stage, Volume 15proprieters., 1802 |
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... difficulties which attend this species of composition pn the modern stage , where simplicity of fable , and simplicity of music , are no 7 longer sufficient to excite attention . All an author can 54 THE MONTHLY MIRROR .
... difficulties which attend this species of composition pn the modern stage , where simplicity of fable , and simplicity of music , are no 7 longer sufficient to excite attention . All an author can 54 THE MONTHLY MIRROR .
Page 55
... attention . All an author can do now , is to furnish a vehicle for the airs , duets , trios , & c . and to contrive suitable situations , in which the performers may introduce their songs . For these he must necessarily sacrifice his ...
... attention . All an author can do now , is to furnish a vehicle for the airs , duets , trios , & c . and to contrive suitable situations , in which the performers may introduce their songs . For these he must necessarily sacrifice his ...
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... attention to plot , style , or even to common sense . The author of the " Mysteries of Isis " had , therefore , some difficulty in putting the materials into a more regular dramatic form , without which , the music , sublime as it is ...
... attention to plot , style , or even to common sense . The author of the " Mysteries of Isis " had , therefore , some difficulty in putting the materials into a more regular dramatic form , without which , the music , sublime as it is ...
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... attention to grace and propriety in her attitudes . The unpopularity of Mr. Fox , formerly so great a favourite , originates in himself , and not in the fickleness of public attachment . A want of deference to the public will never long ...
... attention to grace and propriety in her attitudes . The unpopularity of Mr. Fox , formerly so great a favourite , originates in himself , and not in the fickleness of public attachment . A want of deference to the public will never long ...
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... attention and support of all dramatić ́ama- teurs . " A bill with the above is in my possession . This , together with the multiplicity of business ( and that of the first description ) I was afterwards em- ployed in , by the direction ...
... attention and support of all dramatić ́ama- teurs . " A bill with the above is in my possession . This , together with the multiplicity of business ( and that of the first description ) I was afterwards em- ployed in , by the direction ...
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Page 407 - I answer: This extraordinary effect proceeds from that very eloquence, with which the melancholy scene is represented. The genius required to paint objects in a lively manner, the art employed in collecting all the pathetic circumstances, the judgment displayed in disposing them : the exercise, I say, of these noble talents, together with the force of expression, and beauty of oratorical numbers, diffuse the highest satisfaction on the audience, and excite the most delightful movements.
Page 407 - This idea, though weak and disguised, suffices to diminish the pain which we suffer from the misfortunes of those whom we love, and to reduce that affliction to such a pitch as converts it into a pleasure.
Page 106 - ... in the hospital, was the only measure which could be adopted. The physician, alarmed at the proposal, bold in the confidence of virtue and the cause of humanity, remonstrated vehemently, representing the cruelty as well as the atrocity of such a murder ; but finding that...