The Spectator: ...Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele J. and R. Tonson, 1767 |
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Pagina 60
... 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 fhew 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 fhew what ...
Pagina 79
... tragedy ? Mufic is certainly a very agreeable en- tertainment ; but if it would take the intire poffeffion of our ears , if it would make us incapable of hearing fenfe , if it would exclude arts that have a much greater tenden- cy to ...
... tragedy ? Mufic is certainly a very agreeable en- tertainment ; but if it would take the intire poffeffion of our ears , if it would make us incapable of hearing fenfe , if it would exclude arts that have a much greater tenden- cy to ...
Pagina 119
... tragedy , to complain that the actors of all them fpeak in a tone ; and there- fore he very wifely prefers his own countrymen , not con- fidering that a foreigner complains of the fame tone in an English actor . For this reafon , the ...
... tragedy , to complain that the actors of all them fpeak in a tone ; and there- fore he very wifely prefers his own countrymen , not con- fidering that a foreigner complains of the fame tone in an English actor . For this reafon , the ...
Pagina 157
... tragedy is the nobleft production of hu- man nature , fo it is capable of giving the mind one of the most delightful and moft improving entertainments . A virtuous man , fays Seneca , ftruggling with misfor- tunes , is fuch a fpectacle ...
... tragedy is the nobleft production of hu- man nature , fo it is capable of giving the mind one of the most delightful and moft improving entertainments . A virtuous man , fays Seneca , ftruggling with misfor- tunes , is fuch a fpectacle ...
Pagina 158
... tragedy . I am there- fore very much offended when I fee a play in rhyme ; which is as abfurd in English , as a tragedy of Hexame ters would have been in Greek or Latin . The folcifin is , I think , ftill greater in thofe plays that ...
... tragedy . I am there- fore very much offended when I fee a play in rhyme ; which is as abfurd in English , as a tragedy of Hexame ters would have been in Greek or Latin . The folcifin is , I think , ftill greater in thofe plays that ...
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