The Spectator, Том 1J. Tonson, 1729 |
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... Tragedy ap- pear with that Action , which is capable of giving a Dig- nity to the forced Thoughts , cold Conceits , and unnatu- ral Expreffions of an Italian Opera . In the mean time , I have related this Combat of the Lion , to fhew ...
... Tragedy ap- pear with that Action , which is capable of giving a Dig- nity to the forced Thoughts , cold Conceits , and unnatu- ral Expreffions of an Italian Opera . In the mean time , I have related this Combat of the Lion , to fhew ...
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... 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 Senfe , 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 Senfe , if it would exclude Arts that have a much greater Tendency to the ...
Сторінка 115
... Tragedy , to complain that the Actors all of them speak in a Tone ; and therefore he very wifely prefers his own Country- men , not confidering that a Foreigner complains of the fame Tone in an English A & tor , FOR this Reafon , the ...
... Tragedy , to complain that the Actors all of them speak in a Tone ; and therefore he very wifely prefers his own Country- men , not confidering that a Foreigner complains of the fame Tone in an English A & tor , FOR this Reafon , the ...
Сторінка 152
... 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 Spectacle 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 Spectacle as ...
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... 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 Solæcifim is , I think , ftill greater in thofe 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 Solæcifim is , I think , ftill greater in thofe Plays that have ...
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