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Pagina 40
... noble and ftriking tra = gedy : this must be apparent to every one . The action is truly great , import ant , and tragical ; and a fufpenfive ter- ror must hang continually on the minds of an audience , during its representation . The ...
... noble and ftriking tra = gedy : this must be apparent to every one . The action is truly great , import ant , and tragical ; and a fufpenfive ter- ror must hang continually on the minds of an audience , during its representation . The ...
Pagina 52
... noble fierté à une douceur amiable ; qui réunit tous les agrémens de la jeuneffe ; & qui pofféde , en un mot , tout ce qu'il faut pour charmer . " I cannot call Othello's love for Defde , demona , I can- ( 52 ) the whole criticism is ...
... noble fierté à une douceur amiable ; qui réunit tous les agrémens de la jeuneffe ; & qui pofféde , en un mot , tout ce qu'il faut pour charmer . " I cannot call Othello's love for Defde , demona , I can- ( 52 ) the whole criticism is ...
Pagina 67
... noble fable is infinitely affecting there is hardly a more pathe- tic ftroke in tragedy than Ofmyn's killing the innocent Zara , whom he doated on to distraction , and then discovering his mistake not only the terror , but the pity of ...
... noble fable is infinitely affecting there is hardly a more pathe- tic ftroke in tragedy than Ofmyn's killing the innocent Zara , whom he doated on to distraction , and then discovering his mistake not only the terror , but the pity of ...
Pagina 81
... noble ; but in point of fable and characters , few trage- dies are fo faulty . TH SECT . IV . HE tragedy of the Brothers is one of the best that has appeared on our ftage for many years . I believe I fhall not be thought extravagant in ...
... noble ; but in point of fable and characters , few trage- dies are fo faulty . TH SECT . IV . HE tragedy of the Brothers is one of the best that has appeared on our ftage for many years . I believe I fhall not be thought extravagant in ...
Pagina 95
... will , I doubt not , think I advance a paradox , when I prefer the ca tastrophe of this noble tragedy to that of Othello . The latter , though one of the finest finest pieces Shakespear wrote , abounds in many barbarities , ( 95 )
... will , I doubt not , think I advance a paradox , when I prefer the ca tastrophe of this noble tragedy to that of Othello . The latter , though one of the finest finest pieces Shakespear wrote , abounds in many barbarities , ( 95 )
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Pagina 134 - That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth! Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month, Let me not think on't: Frailty, thy name is woman!
Pagina 185 - Good heav'ns, is this, — is this the man who braves me? Who bids my age make way, drives me before him, To the world's ridge, and sweeps me off like rubbish?
Pagina 135 - Let me not think on't; frailty, thy name is woman A little month, or ere those shoes were old With which she...
Pagina 42 - James, in which this tragedy was written, many circumstances concurred to propagate and confirm this opinion. The king, who was much celebrated for his knowledge, had, before his arrival in England, not only examined in person a woman accused of witchcraft but had given a very formal account of the practices and...
Pagina 135 - ... uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules: within a month, Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married.
Pagina 40 - IN order to make a true estimate of the abilities and merit of a writer, it is always necessary to examine the genius of his age, and the opinions of his contemporaries.
Pagina 43 - Shakespeare might be easily allowed to found a play, especially since he has followed with great exactness such histories as were then thought true ; nor can it be doubted that the scenes of enchantment, however they may now be ridiculed, were both by himself and his audience thought awful and affecting.
Pagina 135 - But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two: So excellent a king; that was, to this, Hyperion to a...
Pagina 85 - I arrest you in the name of mercy, And dare compel your stay: Is then one look, One word, one moment, a last moment too, When I stand tottering on the brink of death, A cruel ignominious death, too much For one that loves like me ? A length of years You may devote to my blest rival's arms, I ask but one short moment.
Pagina 96 - Christian, thou mistak'st my character. Look on me. Who am I ? I know, thou say'st The Moor, a slave, an abject, beaten slave (Eternal woes to him that made me so!): But look again. Has six years cruel bondage...