A Course of Lectures on Dramatic Art and LiteratureH:G: Bohn, 1846 - 535 pagina's |
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Pagina 57
... could disappear , and contrivances for thunder and lightning , for the apparent fall or burning of a house , & c . To the hindmost wall of the scene an upper story could be added ; whenever , for instance , it was wished.
... could disappear , and contrivances for thunder and lightning , for the apparent fall or burning of a house , & c . To the hindmost wall of the scene an upper story could be added ; whenever , for instance , it was wished.
Pagina 58
August Wilhelm von Schlegel. added ; whenever , for instance , it was wished to represent a tower with a wide prospect , or the like . Behind the great middle entrance there was a space for the Exostra , a machine of a semicircular form ...
August Wilhelm von Schlegel. added ; whenever , for instance , it was wished to represent a tower with a wide prospect , or the like . Behind the great middle entrance there was a space for the Exostra , a machine of a semicircular form ...
Pagina 65
... wished to make this remark , as so much has been said of the simplicity of the ancient tragedy , which , no doubt , exists in the general plan , at least in the two oldest poets ; whereas in the execution and details the richest variety ...
... wished to make this remark , as so much has been said of the simplicity of the ancient tragedy , which , no doubt , exists in the general plan , at least in the two oldest poets ; whereas in the execution and details the richest variety ...
Pagina 66
... wished to separate the image of humanity which it presented to us , from the level of nature to which man is in reality chained down , like a slave of the soil . How was this to be accomplished ? By exhibit- ing to us an image hovering ...
... wished to separate the image of humanity which it presented to us , from the level of nature to which man is in reality chained down , like a slave of the soil . How was this to be accomplished ? By exhibit- ing to us an image hovering ...
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... wished - for beacon blazing up , and hastens to announce it to his mistress . A chorus of aged persons appears , and in their songs they go through the whole history of the Trojan War , through all its eventful fluctuations of fortune ...
... wished - for beacon blazing up , and hastens to announce it to his mistress . A chorus of aged persons appears , and in their songs they go through the whole history of the Trojan War , through all its eventful fluctuations of fortune ...
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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...