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Pagina ix
... scenes with rest- less and unappeasable folicitude . This tragedy is unquestionably the noblest pro . duction of Addison's genius . About things on which the public thinks long , it commonly at- tains to think right ; and of Cato it has ...
... scenes with rest- less and unappeasable folicitude . This tragedy is unquestionably the noblest pro . duction of Addison's genius . About things on which the public thinks long , it commonly at- tains to think right ; and of Cato it has ...
Pagina xx
... scenes and daily occurrences . He never o'ersteps the modesty of nature , nor raises merriment or wonder by the violation of truth . His figures neither divert by distortion , nor amafe by aggra- vation . He copies life with so much ...
... scenes and daily occurrences . He never o'ersteps the modesty of nature , nor raises merriment or wonder by the violation of truth . His figures neither divert by distortion , nor amafe by aggra- vation . He copies life with so much ...
Pagina 14
... scene vanished ; In the room of the frightful spectres , there now entered a fecond dance of apparitions , very agreeably matched together , and made up of very amiable phantoms . The first pair was Liberty with Monarchy at her right ...
... scene vanished ; In the room of the frightful spectres , there now entered a fecond dance of apparitions , very agreeably matched together , and made up of very amiable phantoms . The first pair was Liberty with Monarchy at her right ...
Pagina 19
... scenes and machines which may appear childish and abfurd . How would the wits of King Charles's time have laughed to have feen Nico- lini exposed to a tempeft in robes of ermine , and failing in an open boat upon a fea of pasteboard ...
... scenes and machines which may appear childish and abfurd . How would the wits of King Charles's time have laughed to have feen Nico- lini exposed to a tempeft in robes of ermine , and failing in an open boat upon a fea of pasteboard ...
Pagina 20
... scenes . At the same time I made this discovery , I found by the discourse of the actors , that there were great designs on foot for the improvement of the opera ; that it had been pro- posed to break down a part of the wall , and to ...
... scenes . At the same time I made this discovery , I found by the discourse of the actors , that there were great designs on foot for the improvement of the opera ; that it had been pro- posed to break down a part of the wall , and to ...
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