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Pagina 88
... actor is useful , as by his means the poet's work makes its way from the stage to the closet ; for all must allow that the reader receives more benefit by perusing a well - written play than by seeing it acted.1 But how is this rule ...
... actor is useful , as by his means the poet's work makes its way from the stage to the closet ; for all must allow that the reader receives more benefit by perusing a well - written play than by seeing it acted.1 But how is this rule ...
Pagina 89
... actor , who thinks it safest acting in exagger- ated characters , and who , by outstepping nature , chooses to exhibit the ridiculous outré of an harle- quin under the sanction of that venerable name . of our country suppressed that an ...
... actor , who thinks it safest acting in exagger- ated characters , and who , by outstepping nature , chooses to exhibit the ridiculous outré of an harle- quin under the sanction of that venerable name . of our country suppressed that an ...
Pagina 93
... actor and please an audience.1 contempt than , perhaps , they deserved . Honest Estcourt , Ver- bruggen , and Underhill were extremely poor , and assumed no airs of insolence . They were contented with being merry at a city feast , with ...
... actor and please an audience.1 contempt than , perhaps , they deserved . Honest Estcourt , Ver- bruggen , and Underhill were extremely poor , and assumed no airs of insolence . They were contented with being merry at a city feast , with ...
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CHAPTER | 3 |
III | 21 |
Of the present state of polite learning in Italy | 27 |
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