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Pagina 60
... tragedy appear with that actions which is capable of giving dignity . so the forced thoughts , cold conceits , and unnatural expreffions of an Italian opera . In the mean time , I have related this combat of the lion , to fhew what are ...
... tragedy appear with that actions which is capable of giving dignity . so the forced thoughts , cold conceits , and unnatural expreffions of an Italian opera . In the mean time , I have related this combat of the lion , to fhew what are ...
Pagina 79
... tragedy ? Mufick is certainly a very agreeable entertainment : But if it would take the entire poffeffion of our ears , if it would make us incapable of hearing fenfe , if it would exclude arts that have a much greater tendency to the ...
... tragedy ? Mufick is certainly a very agreeable entertainment : But if it would take the entire poffeffion of our ears , if it would make us incapable of hearing fenfe , if it would exclude arts that have a much greater tendency to the ...
Pagina 119
... tragedy , to com- plain that the actors all of them fpeak in a tone ; and therefore he very wifely prefers his own countrymen , not confidering that a foreigner complains of the fame tone in an English actor . For this reafon , the ...
... tragedy , to com- plain that the actors all of them fpeak in a tone ; and therefore he very wifely prefers his own countrymen , not confidering that a foreigner complains of the fame tone in an English actor . For this reafon , the ...
Pagina 157
... tragedy is the nobleft production of human 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 misfortunes , is fuch a fpectacle as ...
... tragedy is the nobleft production of human 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 misfortunes , is fuch a fpectacle as ...
Pagina 158
... tragedy . I am therefore very much offended when I fee a play in rhyme ; which is as abfurd in English , as a tragedy of Hexameters would have been in Greek or Latin . The folecifm is , I think , ftill greater in those plays that have ...
... tragedy . I am therefore very much offended when I fee a play in rhyme ; which is as abfurd in English , as a tragedy of Hexameters would have been in Greek or Latin . The folecifm is , I think , ftill greater in those plays that have ...
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