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Pagina 50
... Tragedy ap- pear with that Action , which is capable of giving a Dig- nity to the forced Thoughts , cold Conceits , and unna- tural Expressions of an Italian Opera . In the mean Time , I have related this Combat of the Lion , to shew ...
... Tragedy ap- pear with that Action , which is capable of giving a Dig- nity to the forced Thoughts , cold Conceits , and unna- tural Expressions of an Italian Opera . In the mean Time , I have related this Combat of the Lion , to shew ...
Pagina 69
... Tragedy ? Musick is certainly a very agreeable Entertainment , but if it would take the entire Possession of our Ears , if it would make us incapable of hearing Sense , if it would exclude Arts that have a much greater Tendency to the ...
... Tragedy ? Musick is certainly a very agreeable Entertainment , but if it would take the entire Possession of our Ears , if it would make us incapable of hearing Sense , if it would exclude Arts that have a much greater Tendency to the ...
Pagina 107
... Tragedy , to complain that the Actors all of them speak in a Tone ; and therefore he very wisely prefers his own Country- men , not confidering that a Foreigner complains of the fame Tone in an English Actor . FOR this Reason , the ...
... Tragedy , to complain that the Actors all of them speak in a Tone ; and therefore he very wisely prefers his own Country- men , not confidering that a Foreigner complains of the fame Tone in an English Actor . FOR this Reason , the ...
Pagina 144
... Tragedy is the noblest Production of hu- man 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 such a Spectacle as ...
... Tragedy is the noblest Production of hu- man 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 such a Spectacle as ...
Pagina 145
... Tragedy . I am therefore very much offended when I fee a Play in Rhyme ; which is as absurd in English , as a Tragedy of Hexameters would have been in Greek or Latin . The Solęcism is , I think , still greater , in those Plays that have ...
... Tragedy . I am therefore very much offended when I fee a Play in Rhyme ; which is as absurd in English , as a Tragedy of Hexameters would have been in Greek or Latin . The Solęcism is , I think , still greater , in those Plays that have ...
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