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Pagina 14
... audience is raised with big swelling words , which vainly seek to hide the absence of genuine feeling . The heroes tear their passion to tatters because they think it heroic to do so ; their flights into the sublime generally drop into ...
... audience is raised with big swelling words , which vainly seek to hide the absence of genuine feeling . The heroes tear their passion to tatters because they think it heroic to do so ; their flights into the sublime generally drop into ...
Pagina 18
... audiences in the theatres were equally devoid of good manners and good taste : they did not hesitate to interrupt the actors in the midst of a serious play , while they loudly applauded their obscene allusions . So gross was the ...
... audiences in the theatres were equally devoid of good manners and good taste : they did not hesitate to interrupt the actors in the midst of a serious play , while they loudly applauded their obscene allusions . So gross was the ...
Pagina 20
... audiences with brilliant dialogue made them careful to give their sentences that well - poised structure which Addison afterwards carried to perfection in the Spectator . By this brief sketch the reader may be enabled to judge of the ...
... audiences with brilliant dialogue made them careful to give their sentences that well - poised structure which Addison afterwards carried to perfection in the Spectator . By this brief sketch the reader may be enabled to judge of the ...
Pagina 58
... audience to which it appealed being necessarily limited , the King sought for more powerful literary artillery , and he found it in the serviceable genius of Dryden , whose satirical and controversial poems date from this period . The ...
... audience to which it appealed being necessarily limited , the King sought for more powerful literary artillery , and he found it in the serviceable genius of Dryden , whose satirical and controversial poems date from this period . The ...
Pagina 69
... audience liked best to hear was a well - marked tune sung in a fine natural way : the kind of music which was in vogue on the stage till the end of the seventeenth century was simply the regular drama interspersed with airs ; recita ...
... audience liked best to hear was a well - marked tune sung in a fine natural way : the kind of music which was in vogue on the stage till the end of the seventeenth century was simply the regular drama interspersed with airs ; recita ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 129 - 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 192 - It was said of Socrates, that he brought philosophy down from heaven, to inhabit among men ; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought philosophy out of closets and libraries, schools and colleges, to dwell in clubs and assemblies, at tea-tables and in coffee-houses.
Pagina 134 - While wits and Templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise— Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers load, On wings of winds came flying all abroad?
Pagina 78 - To Dr. Jonathan Swift, the most agreeable companion, the truest friend, and the greatest genius of his age.
Pagina 3 - Shalum, just finished for the next day's Spectator, in his hand. Such a mark of national respect was due to the unsullied statesman, to the accomplished scholar, to the master of pure English eloquence, to the consummate painter of life and manners. It was due, above all, to the great satirist, who alone knew how to use ridicule without abusing it, who, without inflicting a wound, effected a great social reform, and who reconciled wit and virtue, after a long and disastrous separation, during which...
Pagina 160 - Can I forget the dismal night that gave My soul's best part for ever to the grave? How silent did his old companions tread, By midnight lamps, the mansions of the dead, Through breathing statues, then unheeded things, Through rows of warriors and through walks of kings...
Pagina 67 - And taught the dreadful battle where to rage. — So when an Angel by Divine command With rising tempests shakes a guilty land — Such as of late o'er pale Britannia past — Calm and serene he drives the furious blast ; And pleased the Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
Pagina 181 - It is not uncommon for those who have grown wise by the labour of others to add a little of their own, and overlook their masters. Addison is now despised by some who perhaps would never have seen his defects but by the lights which he afforded them.
Pagina 143 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer, Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike ; Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike...
Pagina 48 - For wheresoe'er I turn my ravished eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, Poetic fields encompass me around And still I seem to tread on classic ground...