Literary Reviews and CriticismsG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1908 - 312 стор. |
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... playing about the contem- porary drama : or " Plain patched experience , the unlettered's guide , ” " From looking on the earth whence she was born Her mind remember'th her mortality , " or again " The light - foot lackey that runs post ...
... playing about the contem- porary drama : or " Plain patched experience , the unlettered's guide , ” " From looking on the earth whence she was born Her mind remember'th her mortality , " or again " The light - foot lackey that runs post ...
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... play of the time without finding more than one evidence of great , if irregular , power ! What , then , is the explanation of this anomaly ? As a matter of fact , no serious answer to this question has ever been attempted - possibly the ...
... play of the time without finding more than one evidence of great , if irregular , power ! What , then , is the explanation of this anomaly ? As a matter of fact , no serious answer to this question has ever been attempted - possibly the ...
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... play nothing but a higher reason , sufficiently reinforced by the love of truth to dominate the imagination and the senses and to draw admira- ble assistance whence ordinarily come the great- est dangers . " From this eminently ...
... play nothing but a higher reason , sufficiently reinforced by the love of truth to dominate the imagination and the senses and to draw admira- ble assistance whence ordinarily come the great- est dangers . " From this eminently ...
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... play of intelligence . It implies inspiration , as he calls it - the revelation that seems to come down like a sudden light upon life , laying bare its very secrets , trans- muting it with new meaning , and possessing the writer , like ...
... play of intelligence . It implies inspiration , as he calls it - the revelation that seems to come down like a sudden light upon life , laying bare its very secrets , trans- muting it with new meaning , and possessing the writer , like ...
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... play , but by its deep purposefulness , its severe determin- ism ; and so to a lesser degree the drama of Racine , and to some extent all genuinely characteristic French work as compared with English ; while a poem of Shelley's or ...
... play , but by its deep purposefulness , its severe determin- ism ; and so to a lesser degree the drama of Racine , and to some extent all genuinely characteristic French work as compared with English ; while a poem of Shelley's or ...
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Сторінка 143 - Holds such an enmity with blood of man, That, swift as quicksilver, it courses through The natural gates and alleys of the body ; And, with a sudden vigour, it doth posset And curd, like eager droppings into milk, The thin and wholesome blood...
Сторінка 172 - In vain, they gaze, turn giddy, rave, and die. Religion, blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires. Nor public flame, nor private dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine Lo, thy dread empire, Chaos ! is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word : Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all.
Сторінка 175 - Learn hence for ancient rules a just esteem ;' To copy Nature is to copy them.
Сторінка 171 - The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
Сторінка 161 - Blank verse is acknowledged to be too low for a poem — nay more, for a paper of verses; but if too low for an ordinary sonnet, how much more for tragedy, which is by Aristotle, in the dispute betwixt the epic poesy and the dramatic, for many reasons he there alleges, ranked above it?
Сторінка 132 - Or mountain-built with peaceful citadel, Is emptied of this folk, this pious morn? And, little town, thy streets for evermore Will silent be; and not a soul to tell Why thou art desolate, can e'er return.
Сторінка 296 - When good is near you, when you have life in yourself, it is not by any known or accustomed way ; you shall not discern the footprints of any other; you shall not see the face of man; you shall not hear any name ; — the way, the thought, the good, shall be wholly strange and new.
Сторінка 136 - ... who, by the mere strength of natural parts, and without any assistance of art or learning, have produced works that were the delight of their own times and the wonder of posterity.
Сторінка 134 - Witness the lameness of their plots; many of which, especially those which they writ first (for even that age refined itself in some measure), were made up of some ridiculous incoherent story, which in one play many times took up the business of an age. I suppose I need not name Pericles, Prince of Tyre, nor the historical plays of Shakespeare: besides many of the rest, as the Winter's Tale, Love's Labour's Lost, Measure for Measure, which were either grounded on impossibilities, or at least so meanly...
Сторінка 181 - Since I have raised to myself so great an Audience, I shall spare no Pains to make their Instruction agreeable, and their Diversion useful. For which Reasons I shall endeavour to enliven Morality with Wit, and to temper Wit with Morality, that my Readers may, if possible, both Ways find their Account in the Speculation of the Day.