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Pagina 2
... most important part of tragedy , according to the fame critic , is the fable , or the compofition of things : for tra- gedy is an imitation , not of men , but of their actions , lives , good or ill for tune ; all which confift in action ...
... most important part of tragedy , according to the fame critic , is the fable , or the compofition of things : for tra- gedy is an imitation , not of men , but of their actions , lives , good or ill for tune ; all which confift in action ...
Pagina 11
... fimple and confined action can furnish many incidents , and thofe , fuch as they are , muft tend to one common point , it neceffarily follows , that there must be a famenefs fameness and uniformity in the fenti- ments . What most ( 11 )
... fimple and confined action can furnish many incidents , and thofe , fuch as they are , muft tend to one common point , it neceffarily follows , that there must be a famenefs fameness and uniformity in the fenti- ments . What most ( 11 )
Pagina 12
... most of their pieces we find the defects which Mr. Webb mentions . Racine , notwithstanding what the French critics affert , was a cool tame genius : in none of his pieces are we hurried away by the poetic fire ; no hafty ftrokes of ...
... most of their pieces we find the defects which Mr. Webb mentions . Racine , notwithstanding what the French critics affert , was a cool tame genius : in none of his pieces are we hurried away by the poetic fire ; no hafty ftrokes of ...
Pagina 13
... most lively of our external fenfes : how much more rare mult the talent be of imitating cha racters and internal emotions , tracing all theit different tints , and reprefenting them in a lively manner by natural fentiments properly ...
... most lively of our external fenfes : how much more rare mult the talent be of imitating cha racters and internal emotions , tracing all theit different tints , and reprefenting them in a lively manner by natural fentiments properly ...
Pagina 17
... most critical fituations , the moft interefting circum- tances of the piece , never make him forget the niceft arrangement of phrase or elegancies of attitude . Should even Despair plunge a dagger in the heart of his hero , not ...
... most critical fituations , the moft interefting circum- tances of the piece , never make him forget the niceft arrangement of phrase or elegancies of attitude . Should even Despair plunge a dagger in the heart of his hero , not ...
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abfurd action affecting againſt alfo almoft Alonzo alſo anfwer Arzaces audience Barbaroffa becauſe Carlos cataſtrophe Cato character compaffion compofed compofition Corneille Creon Criticifm death diſcover epifodes expreffed fable faid falfe fame fatire fays fcene fenti fentiments fhall fhews fhort fhould firſt fituation fome fometimes foul fpeaking fpectator fpeech French ftage ftrokes fubject fuch fuppofe furprize gedy genius greateſt Hamlet Henriade hiftory himſelf intereft juft Juliet king la Henriade laft language laſt lefs Leonora Macbeth manner ment moft Monf moſt muft murder muſt n'eft nature neceffary noble obferved occafion Othello paffages paffion pathetic perfon perfonages piece pity play pleaſure poet prefent Preferved prince of Condé profe Racine racter raiſed reafon refemblance refpect reprefentation reprefented Revenge rife Romeo Romeo and Juliet ſcene Semiramis Shakeſpear Sophocles ſpeak terror theatre thee thefe theſe thofe thoſe tion tragedy tranflation unities Voltaire whofe wrote Zanga Zara
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