A Course of Lectures on Dramatic Art and LiteratureH:G: Bohn, 1846 - 535 pagina's |
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... carried on by a private tutor , who prepared him for the grammar - school at Hanover , where he was distinguished both for his unremitting application , to which he often sacrificed the hours of leisure and recreation , and for the ...
... carried on by a private tutor , who prepared him for the grammar - school at Hanover , where he was distinguished both for his unremitting application , to which he often sacrificed the hours of leisure and recreation , and for the ...
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... This discussion , which ex- tended from its original subject to Euripides and Dramatic Representation in general , was carried on in the Journal for AUGUSTUS WILLIAM VON SCHLEGEL . 11 the Polite World ( 10 THE LITERARY LIFE OF.
... This discussion , which ex- tended from its original subject to Euripides and Dramatic Representation in general , was carried on in the Journal for AUGUSTUS WILLIAM VON SCHLEGEL . 11 the Polite World ( 10 THE LITERARY LIFE OF.
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... carried to perfection , a style of architecture , which has been called Gothic , but ought really to have been termed old German . When , on the general revival of classical antiquity , the imitation of Grecian architecture became ...
... carried to perfection , a style of architecture , which has been called Gothic , but ought really to have been termed old German . When , on the general revival of classical antiquity , the imitation of Grecian architecture became ...
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... carried still farther . But does our adıniration of the one compel us to depreciate the other ? May we not admit that each is great and admirable in its kind , although the one is , and is meant to be , different from the other ? The ...
... carried still farther . But does our adıniration of the one compel us to depreciate the other ? May we not admit that each is great and admirable in its kind , although the one is , and is meant to be , different from the other ? The ...
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... carried this luxury so far with respect to the theatre itself , that the perfection in essentials was sacri- ficed to the accessories of embellishment . Even among the Greeks dramatic talent was far from universal . The theatre was ...
... carried this luxury so far with respect to the theatre itself , that the perfection in essentials was sacri- ficed to the accessories of embellishment . Even among the Greeks dramatic talent was far from universal . The theatre was ...
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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 431 - Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts ; Into a thousand parts divide one man, And make imaginary puissance ; Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i...
Pagina 410 - Tis two or three, my lord, that bring you word, Macduff is fled to England. Macb. Fled to England ? Len. Ay, my good lord. Macb. Time, thou anticipat'st my dread exploits : The flighty purpose never is o'ertook, Unless the deed go with it : from this moment, The very firstlings of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand.
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.
Pagina 16 - I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading.
Pagina 342 - The ancient art and poetry rigorously separate things which are dissimilar; the romantic delights in indissoluble mixtures; all contrarieties: nature and art, poetry and prose, seriousness and mirth, recollection and anticipation, spirituality and sensuality, terrestrial and celestial, life and death, are by it blended together in the most intimate combination.
Pagina 400 - ... declaration of love and modest return to the most unlimited passion, to an irrevocable union; then, amidst alternating storms of rapture and despair, to...
Pagina 365 - ... tame insipidity. Hence, an idea has been formed of simple and natural pathos, which consists in exclamations destitute of imagery, and nowise elevated above every-day life. But energetical passions electrify the whole of the mental powers, and will, consequently, in highly favoured natures, express themselves in an ingenious and figurative manner.
Pagina 16 - You place him in contact with the best society in every period of history, — with the wisest, the wittiest, the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters who have adorned humanity. You make him a denizen of all nations, a contemporary of all ages. The world has been created for him.
Pagina 404 - The whole is intended to show that a calculating consideration, which exhausts all the relations and possible consequences of a deed, must cripple the power of acting...