A Course of Lectures on Dramatic Art and LiteratureBell & Daldy, 1871 - 535 pagina's |
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Pagina 18
... pretension . Poetry , taken in its widest acceptation , as the power of creating what is beautiful , and representing it to the eye or the ear , is a universal gift of Heaven , being shared APPLICATION TO POETRY AND THE FINE ARTS . 19 to.
... pretension . Poetry , taken in its widest acceptation , as the power of creating what is beautiful , and representing it to the eye or the ear , is a universal gift of Heaven , being shared APPLICATION TO POETRY AND THE FINE ARTS . 19 to.
Pagina 44
... represents external events , but he represents them as real and present . In common with the lyric poet he also claims our mental participation , but not in the same calm composedness ; the feeling of joy and sor- row which the ...
... represents external events , but he represents them as real and present . In common with the lyric poet he also claims our mental participation , but not in the same calm composedness ; the feeling of joy and sor- row which the ...
Pagina 50
... represented to our eye and ear , it would at once strike dumb the whole herd of these noisy and interested critics . The ancient statues require no commentary ; they speak for themselves , and everything like competition on the part of ...
... represented to our eye and ear , it would at once strike dumb the whole herd of these noisy and interested critics . The ancient statues require no commentary ; they speak for themselves , and everything like competition on the part of ...
Pagina 53
... represented ; and I afterwards found our ideas con- firmed by an examination of the theatre of Herculaneum , and the two very small ones at Pompeii . † They carefully made choice of a beautiful situation . The theatre at Tauromenium ...
... represented ; and I afterwards found our ideas con- firmed by an examination of the theatre of Herculaneum , and the two very small ones at Pompeii . † They carefully made choice of a beautiful situation . The theatre at Tauromenium ...
Pagina 54
... represented in them , which required to be seen at a respectful distance . The seats of the spectators were formed by ascending steps which rose round the semicircle of the orchestra , ( called by us the pit , ) so that all could see ...
... represented in them , which required to be seen at a respectful distance . The seats of the spectators were formed by ascending steps which rose round the semicircle of the orchestra , ( called by us the pit , ) so that all could see ...
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Pagina 350 - How absolute the knave is ! we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us. By the Lord, Horatio, these three years I have taken note of it ; the age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe. — How long hast thou been a grave-maker? 1 Clo. Of all the days i' the year, I came to't that day that our last King Hamlet o'ercame Fortinbras.
Pagina 251 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Pagina 398 - Say, there be ; Yet nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean ; so, o'er that art Which, you say, adds to nature, is an art That nature makes.
Pagina 372 - This fellow is wise enough to play the fool; And to do that well craves a kind of wit. 60 He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye. This is a practice As full of labour as a wise man's art.