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Pagina ix
This tragedy is unquestionably the noblest production of Addifon's genius . About things on which the public thinks long , it commonly attains to think right ; and of Cato it has been not unjustly determined , that it is rather a poem ...
This tragedy is unquestionably the noblest production of Addifon's genius . About things on which the public thinks long , it commonly attains to think right ; and of Cato it has been not unjustly determined , that it is rather a poem ...
Pagina 53
Could they make the fame ufe of their arms and legs , and inform their faces with as fignificant looks and paffions , how glorious would an English tragedy appear with that action which is capable of giving a dignity ' to the forced ...
Could they make the fame ufe of their arms and legs , and inform their faces with as fignificant looks and paffions , how glorious would an English tragedy appear with that action which is capable of giving a dignity ' to the forced ...
Pagina 72
... think it was poffible ( at a time when an author lived that was able to write the Phædra and Hippolitus ) for a people to be fo ftupidly fond of the Italian opera , as scarce to give a third day's hearing to that admirable tragedy !
... think it was poffible ( at a time when an author lived that was able to write the Phædra and Hippolitus ) for a people to be fo ftupidly fond of the Italian opera , as scarce to give a third day's hearing to that admirable tragedy !
Pagina 112
... of each particular word , but the found of the whole fentence . Thus it is very common for an English gentleman , when he hears a French tragedy , to complain us . that that the actors of all of them fpeak in a 112 THE SPECTATOR .
... of each particular word , but the found of the whole fentence . Thus it is very common for an English gentleman , when he hears a French tragedy , to complain us . that that the actors of all of them fpeak in a 112 THE SPECTATOR .
Pagina 152
AS a perfect tragedy is the nobleft production of human nature , fo it is capable of giving the mind one of the moft delightful and moft improving entertainments . A virtuous man , fays Seneca , ftruggling with misfortunes , is fuch a ...
AS a perfect tragedy is the nobleft production of human nature , fo it is capable of giving the mind one of the moft delightful and moft improving entertainments . A virtuous man , fays Seneca , ftruggling with misfortunes , is fuch a ...
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