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August Wilhelm von Schlegel. In a very conspicuous manner by the Italians and the French . other nations , also , more ... manner the battles of the hu- man mind , if I may use the expression , have been won by a few intellectual heroes ...
August Wilhelm von Schlegel. In a very conspicuous manner by the Italians and the French . other nations , also , more ... manner the battles of the hu- man mind , if I may use the expression , have been won by a few intellectual heroes ...
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... manner in which they speak of their poetical compositions , and especially of their dramatic literature . Look for instance , into a book very much read , -- La Harpe's Cours de Litterature . It contains many nice observations respect ...
... manner in which they speak of their poetical compositions , and especially of their dramatic literature . Look for instance , into a book very much read , -- La Harpe's Cours de Litterature . It contains many nice observations respect ...
Pagina 30
... manner equally bold and astonishing . Even Barthelemy's description of the Grecian stage is not a little confused ; and the subjoined plan ex- tremely erroneous ; in the place which he assigns for the repre- sentation of the pieces , in ...
... manner equally bold and astonishing . Even Barthelemy's description of the Grecian stage is not a little confused ; and the subjoined plan ex- tremely erroneous ; in the place which he assigns for the repre- sentation of the pieces , in ...
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... manner among the Greeks , even those who were unmarried , might appear with- out any impropriety . Neither was it impossible for them to give a view of the interior of the houses ; and this was effected , as we shall immediately see by ...
... manner among the Greeks , even those who were unmarried , might appear with- out any impropriety . Neither was it impossible for them to give a view of the interior of the houses ; and this was effected , as we shall immediately see by ...
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... manner than in real life . As the plastic art of the Greeks was formed , if we may so express ourselves , with scientific strictness on the most general conception , and embodied into various general characters which were gradually ...
... manner than in real life . As the plastic art of the Greeks was formed , if we may so express ourselves , with scientific strictness on the most general conception , and embodied into various general characters which were gradually ...
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Pagina 351 - 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 280 - How absolute the knave is ! we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us. By the Lord, Horatio, these three years I have taken note of it ; the age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe. How long hast thou been a grave-maker? First Clo. Of all the days i' the year, I came to 't that day that our last king Hamlet overcame Fortinbras.
Pagina 196 - 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 321 - 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 299 - 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 292 - He paints, in a most inimitable manner, the gradual progress from the first origin ; " he gives," as Lessing says, "a living picture of all the most minute and secret artifices by which a feeling steals into our souls, of all the imperceptible advantages which it there gains, of all the stratagems by which every other passion is made subservient to it, till it becomes the sole tyrant of our desires and our aversions.
Pagina 282 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Pagina 296 - ... properties subsist in him peaceably together. The world of spirits and nature have laid all their treasures at his feet: in strength a demi-god, in profundity of view a prophet, in all-seeing wisdom a guardian spirit of a higher order, he lowers himself to mortals as if unconscious of his superiority, and is as open and unassuming as a child.
Pagina 323 - By the manner in which he has handled it, it has become a glorious song of praise on that inexpressible feeling which ennobles the soul and gives to it its highest sublimity, and which elevates even the senses themselves into soul...
Pagina 9 - Hence the poetry of the ancients was the poetry of enjoyment, and ours is that of desire : the former has its foundation in the scene which is present, while the latter hovers betwixt recollection and hope.