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Pagina ix
... 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 been not unjustly determined , that it is rather a poem ...
... 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 been not unjustly determined , that it is rather a poem ...
Pagina 53
... tragedy appear with that action which is capable of giving a dignity ' to the forced thoughts , cold conceits , and unnatural ex- preffions of an Italian opera . In the mean time , I have related this combat of the lion , to shew what ...
... tragedy appear with that action which is capable of giving a dignity ' to the forced thoughts , cold conceits , and unnatural ex- preffions of an Italian opera . In the mean time , I have related this combat of the lion , to shew what ...
Pagina 72
... ) for a people to be fo stupidly fond of the Italian opera , as scarce to give a third day's hearing to that admirable tragedy ! Music is certainly certainly a very agreeable entertainment ; but if it would 72 THE SPECTATOR .
... ) for a people to be fo stupidly fond of the Italian opera , as scarce to give a third day's hearing to that admirable tragedy ! Music is certainly certainly a very agreeable entertainment ; but if it would 72 THE SPECTATOR .
Pagina 112
... - ciation 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 that the actors of all of them fpeak in a. that more 112 THE SPECTATOR ...
... - ciation 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 that the actors of all of them fpeak in a. that more 112 THE SPECTATOR ...
Pagina 152
... tragedy is the noblest production of human nature , so it is capable of giving the mind one of the most delightful and most improving entertainments . A virtuous man , says Seneca , struggling with misfortunes , is fuch a spectacle as ...
... tragedy is the noblest production of human nature , so it is capable of giving the mind one of the most delightful and most improving entertainments . A virtuous man , says Seneca , struggling with misfortunes , is fuch a spectacle as ...
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