A Guide to Greek Tragedy for English Readers, Volume 46Percival, 1891 - 335 pagina's |
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... spirit and intention of their works . Greek tragedy , as an interpretation of human life , contains much which the world cannot afford to lose . It carries an imperfect lesson relative to a transitional age , yet one that is of lasting ...
... spirit and intention of their works . Greek tragedy , as an interpretation of human life , contains much which the world cannot afford to lose . It carries an imperfect lesson relative to a transitional age , yet one that is of lasting ...
Pagina 9
... spirit of a time in which by cultivated persons both epic and dramatic poetry were more often read than heard or seen . For the interest with which men listened to an Homeric rhapsody was different from what they felt in the Dionysiac ...
... spirit of a time in which by cultivated persons both epic and dramatic poetry were more often read than heard or seen . For the interest with which men listened to an Homeric rhapsody was different from what they felt in the Dionysiac ...
Pagina 12
... most completely realised the dramatic spirit that every speech is also a step in the action , which moves forward almost with every line . It has accordingly been remarked that the drama is the most I 2 Guide to Greek Tragedy.
... most completely realised the dramatic spirit that every speech is also a step in the action , which moves forward almost with every line . It has accordingly been remarked that the drama is the most I 2 Guide to Greek Tragedy.
Pagina 17
... spirit with any great aspect of human life , considered as a whole , deserves the name of Tragedy . Only , whether the struggle ends well or ill , there must be the representation of a struggle in which the microcosm of an essen- tially ...
... spirit with any great aspect of human life , considered as a whole , deserves the name of Tragedy . Only , whether the struggle ends well or ill , there must be the representation of a struggle in which the microcosm of an essen- tially ...
Pagina 37
... spirit , not in the theatre itself , but at the imagined scene ; and , strange though it may appear , it is certainly true that a speech of Ajax or of Oedipus may be broken up and varied in declamation to a moderate - sized audience ...
... spirit , not in the theatre itself , but at the imagined scene ; and , strange though it may appear , it is certainly true that a speech of Ajax or of Oedipus may be broken up and varied in declamation to a moderate - sized audience ...
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Pagina 38 - 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 217 - Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, These three alone lead life to sovereign power. Yet not for power (power of herself Would come uncall'd for) but to live by law, Acting the law we live by without fear; And, because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.
Pagina 29 - I have endeavoured in this play to follow the practice of the ancients, who, as Mr Rymer has judiciously observed, are and ought to be our masters.
Pagina 213 - Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong.
Pagina 29 - English theatre requires. Particularly, the action is so much one, that it is the only of the kind without episode, or underplot; every scene in the tragedy conducing to the main design, and every act concluding with a turn of it.
Pagina 5 - TRAGEDY, as it was anciently composed, hath been ever held the gravest, moralest, and most profitable of all other poems ; therefore said by Aristotle to be of power, by raising pity, and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and such like passions, that is, to temper and reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight, stirred up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated.
Pagina 24 - We still have judgment here ; that we but teach Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return To plague the inventor : This even-handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice To our own lips.
Pagina 3 - Even so the distant funeral : the few mourners on horseback, with their plaids wrapped around them — the father heading the procession as they enter the river, and pointing out the ford by which his darling is to be carried on the last long road — none of the subordinate figures in discord with the general tone of the incident, but seeming just accessions, and no more ; — this is affecting.
Pagina 212 - He taught us little; but our soul Had felt him like the thunder's roll. With shivering heart the strife we saw Of passion with eternal law; And yet with reverential awe We watched the fount of fiery life Which served for that Titanic strife.
Pagina 2 - I saw the poor child's funeral from a distance. Ah, that Distance! What a magician for conjuring up scenes of joy or sorrow, smoothing all asperities, reconciling all incongruities, veiling all absurdness, softening every coarseness, doubling every effect by the influence of the imagination.