A Course of Lectures on Dramatic Art and LiteratureH:G: Bohn, 1846 - 535 pagina's |
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Pagina 22
... endeavour to illustrate what I mean by this contrast . Throughout the Middle Ages there prevailed , and in the latter centuries of that era was carried to perfection , a style of architecture , which has been called Gothic , but ought ...
... endeavour to illustrate what I mean by this contrast . Throughout the Middle Ages there prevailed , and in the latter centuries of that era was carried to perfection , a style of architecture , which has been called Gothic , but ought ...
Pagina 23
... them is merely the whim of a new school of critics , who , expressing themselves in language full of mystery , cautiously avoid conveying their sentiments in a tangible shape , I shall endeavour to explain the origin.
... them is merely the whim of a new school of critics , who , expressing themselves in language full of mystery , cautiously avoid conveying their sentiments in a tangible shape , I shall endeavour to explain the origin.
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August Wilhelm von Schlegel. tangible shape , I shall endeavour to explain the origin and spirit of the romantic ... endeavours . Religion is the root of human existence . Were it possible for man to renounce all religion , including that ...
August Wilhelm von Schlegel. tangible shape , I shall endeavour to explain the origin and spirit of the romantic ... endeavours . Religion is the root of human existence . Were it possible for man to renounce all religion , including that ...
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... endeavour of their poetry is to reconcile these two worlds between which we find ourselves divided , and to blend them indissolubly together . The impressions of the senses are to be hallowed , as it were , by a mysterious con- nexion ...
... endeavour of their poetry is to reconcile these two worlds between which we find ourselves divided , and to blend them indissolubly together . The impressions of the senses are to be hallowed , as it were , by a mysterious con- nexion ...
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... endeavour to restore the ancient stage , and , where possible , to improve it , has been shown in a very lively manner by the Italians and the French . In other nations , also , attempts of the same kind , more or less earnest , have at ...
... endeavour to restore the ancient stage , and , where possible , to improve it , has been shown in a very lively manner by the Italians and the French . In other nations , also , attempts of the same kind , more or less earnest , have at ...
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A Course of Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature August Wilhelm von Schlegel Volledige weergave - 1846 |
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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...