Critical worksT. Cadell and W. Davies, strand., 1811 |
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Pagina 30
... CHARACTERS , more especially their specific differences . " By FARCE I understand , that species of the drama , " whose sole aim and tendency is to excite LAUGHTER . " The idea of these three species being then proposed , 30 ON THE ...
... CHARACTERS , more especially their specific differences . " By FARCE I understand , that species of the drama , " whose sole aim and tendency is to excite LAUGHTER . " The idea of these three species being then proposed , 30 ON THE ...
Pagina 31
... which are most important . For as to what concerns the province of Farce , this will be easily under- stood , when the character of the other two is once settled . f CHAP . I. ON THE PROVINCES OF TRAGEDY AND THE DRAMA . 31.
... which are most important . For as to what concerns the province of Farce , this will be easily under- stood , when the character of the other two is once settled . f CHAP . I. ON THE PROVINCES OF TRAGEDY AND THE DRAMA . 31.
Pagina 32
... characters , " are the chief object of its representations . " For that which affects us most in the view of human life is the observation of those signal circumstances of felicity or distress , which occur in the fortunes of men . But ...
... characters , " are the chief object of its representations . " For that which affects us most in the view of human life is the observation of those signal circumstances of felicity or distress , which occur in the fortunes of men . But ...
Pagina 37
... characters . And if we observe , that which creates the pleasure we find in contemplating the lives of men , considered as distinct from the interest we take in their fortunes , is the contemplation of their manners and humours . Their ...
... characters . And if we observe , that which creates the pleasure we find in contemplating the lives of men , considered as distinct from the interest we take in their fortunes , is the contemplation of their manners and humours . Their ...
Pagina 38
... character , and renders the inward temper and disposition the object of Probable circumstances are then ima- • gined ... characters in a course of action and the pursuit of some end , the comic poet leaves them to express themselves ...
... character , and renders the inward temper and disposition the object of Probable circumstances are then ima- • gined ... characters in a course of action and the pursuit of some end , the comic poet leaves them to express themselves ...
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Pagina 256 - Begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, 460 The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turns it by degrees to the soul's essence, Till all be made immortal ; but when lust By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies, and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being.
Pagina 255 - His honour and the greatness of his name Shall be, and make new nations ; he shall flourish, And, like a mountain cedar, reach his branches To all the plains about him ; our children's children Shall see this and bless heaven.
Pagina 256 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become • A kneaded clod...
Pagina 133 - Tout est dit : et l'on vient trop tard depuis plus de sept mille ans qu'il ya des hommes, et qui pensent.
Pagina 256 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Pagina 286 - 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 256 - When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
Pagina 256 - Sirens' harmony, That sit upon the nine infolded spheres, And sing to those that hold the vital shears, And turn the adamantine spindle round On which the fate of gods and men is wound.
Pagina 278 - Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.
Pagina 256 - Superior beings, when of late they saw A mortal man unfold all nature's law, Admir'd such wisdom in an earthly shape, And shew'da Newton as we shew an ape.