AddisonMacmillan, 1884 - 192 pagina's |
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Pagina 14
... audience is raised with big swelling words , which vainly seek to hide the absence of genuine feeling . The heroes tear their passion to tatters because they think it heroic to do so ; their flights into the sublime generally drop into ...
... audience is raised with big swelling words , which vainly seek to hide the absence of genuine feeling . The heroes tear their passion to tatters because they think it heroic to do so ; their flights into the sublime generally drop into ...
Pagina 18
... audiences in the theatres were equally devoid of good manners and good taste : they did not hesitate to interrupt the actors in the midst of a serious play , while they loudly applauded their obscene allusions . So gross was the ...
... audiences in the theatres were equally devoid of good manners and good taste : they did not hesitate to interrupt the actors in the midst of a serious play , while they loudly applauded their obscene allusions . So gross was the ...
Pagina 20
... audiences with brilliant dialogue made them careful to give their sentences that well - poised structure which Addison afterwards carried to perfection in the Spectator . By this brief sketch the reader may be enabled to judge of the ...
... audiences with brilliant dialogue made them careful to give their sentences that well - poised structure which Addison afterwards carried to perfection in the Spectator . By this brief sketch the reader may be enabled to judge of the ...
Pagina 58
... audience to which it appealed being necessarily limited , the King sought for more powerful literary artillery , and he found it in the serviceable genius of Dryden , whose satirical and controversial poems date from this period . The ...
... audience to which it appealed being necessarily limited , the King sought for more powerful literary artillery , and he found it in the serviceable genius of Dryden , whose satirical and controversial poems date from this period . The ...
Pagina 69
... audience liked best to hear was a well - marked tune sung in a fine natural way the kind of music which was in vogue on the stage till the end of the seventeenth century was simply the regular drama interspersed with airs ; recita- tive ...
... audience liked best to hear was a well - marked tune sung in a fine natural way the kind of music which was in vogue on the stage till the end of the seventeenth century was simply the regular drama interspersed with airs ; recita- tive ...
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