A Guide to Greek Tragedy for English Readers, Volume 46Percival, 1891 - 335 pagina's |
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Pagina 5
... 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 . " Aristotle's pregnant saying , however , is not only extremely condensed , but so ...
... 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 . " Aristotle's pregnant saying , however , is not only extremely condensed , but so ...
Pagina 7
... passion purify its tide.1 Thus by the magic of a great poet's art , made audible and visible , the mind's finer sympathies are unlocked from their obscure recesses , imagination is expanded , and thought is drawn forth to dwell on some ...
... passion purify its tide.1 Thus by the magic of a great poet's art , made audible and visible , the mind's finer sympathies are unlocked from their obscure recesses , imagination is expanded , and thought is drawn forth to dwell on some ...
Pagina 14
... passionate 66 1 This is what Shakespeare means by the " temperance that may give it smoothness , " and Longinus by the precept one must be sober even when the Bacchic fit is on ( καν βακχεύμασι νήφειν ἀναγκαῖον ) . history or the ...
... passionate 66 1 This is what Shakespeare means by the " temperance that may give it smoothness , " and Longinus by the precept one must be sober even when the Bacchic fit is on ( καν βακχεύμασι νήφειν ἀναγκαῖον ) . history or the ...
Pagina 15
... passion , some eccentric horror . This is why such plays as Webster's White Devil and Shelley's Cenci can never be placed in the first rank , despite their thrilling power . In passing from them to Macbeth or to the Agamemnon , we leave ...
... passion , some eccentric horror . This is why such plays as Webster's White Devil and Shelley's Cenci can never be placed in the first rank , despite their thrilling power . In passing from them to Macbeth or to the Agamemnon , we leave ...
Pagina 18
... passionate , to awaken our emotions by the expression of his own and to account for his misfortunes ; he should have ... passion , and the imagination fails to conceive ( or to express ) the grandeur of the sphere in which the tragic ...
... passionate , to awaken our emotions by the expression of his own and to account for his misfortunes ; he should have ... passion , and the imagination fails to conceive ( or to express ) the grandeur of the sphere in which the tragic ...
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Pagina 4 - She dwells with Beauty — Beauty that must die; And Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips Bidding adieu; and aching Pleasure nigh, Turning to Poison while the bee-mouth sips: Ay, in the very temple of Delight Veil'd Melancholy has her sovran shrine, Though seen of none save him whose strenuous tongue Can burst Joy's grape against his palate fine; His soul shall taste the sadness of her might, And be among her cloudy trophies hung.
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 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 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 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.