The SpectatorT. Cadell and W. Davies, 1811 |
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... tragedy appear with that action which is capa- ble of giving a dignity to the forced thoughts , cold con- ceits , and unnatural expressions of an Italian opera ! In the mean time , I have related this combat of the lion , to shew what ...
... tragedy appear with that action which is capa- ble of giving a dignity to the forced thoughts , cold con- ceits , and unnatural expressions of an Italian opera ! In the mean time , I have related this combat of the lion , to shew what ...
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... tragedy ? Music is certainly a very agreeable enter- tainment , but if it would take the entire possession of our ears , if it would make us incapable of hearing sense , if it would exclude arts that have a much greater ten- dency to ...
... tragedy ? Music is certainly a very agreeable enter- tainment , but if it would take the entire possession of our ears , if it would make us incapable of hearing sense , if it would exclude arts that have a much greater ten- dency to ...
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... tragedy , to com- plain that the actors all of them speak in a tone ; and therefore he very wisely prefers his own countrymen , not considering that a foreigner complains of the same tone in an English actor . For this reason , the ...
... tragedy , to com- plain that the actors all of them speak in a tone ; and therefore he very wisely prefers his own countrymen , not considering that a foreigner complains of the same tone in an English actor . For this reason , the ...
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... tragedy is the noblest production of human nature , so it is capable of giving the mind one of the most delightful and most improving entertainments . ' A virtuous man ( says Seneca ) struggling with mis- fortunes , is such a spectacle ...
... tragedy is the noblest production of human nature , so it is capable of giving the mind one of the most delightful and most improving entertainments . ' A virtuous man ( says Seneca ) struggling with mis- fortunes , is such a spectacle ...
Сторінка 93
... tragedy . I am therefore very much offended when I see a play in rhyme ; which is as absurd in English , as a tragedy of Hexameters would have been in Greek or Latin . The solecism is , I think , still greater in those plays that have ...
... tragedy . I am therefore very much offended when I see a play in rhyme ; which is as absurd in English , as a tragedy of Hexameters would have been in Greek or Latin . The solecism is , I think , still greater in those plays that have ...
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Сторінка 39 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night.
Сторінка 374 - The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me : and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. I put on righteousness, and it clothed me : my judgment was as a robe and a diadem. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. I was a father to the poor : and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
Сторінка 374 - If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maid-servant when they contended with me ; what then shall I do when God riseth Up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him ? Did not he that made me in the womb, make him ? and did not one fashion us in the womb...
Сторінка 324 - ... that throngs of people no sooner broke through the cloud, but many of them fell into them. They grew thinner towards the middle, but multiplied and lay closer together towards the end of the arches that were entire. There were indeed some persons, but their number was very small, that continued a kind of hobbling march on the broken arches, but fell through one after another, being quite tired and spent with so long a walk.
Сторінка 324 - Examine now, said he, this sea that is bounded with darkness at both ends, and tell me what thou discoverest in it. I see a bridge, said I, standing in the midst of the tide.
Сторінка 105 - What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel, Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous; and we fools of nature So horridly to shake our disposition With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?
Сторінка 373 - OH THAT I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness...
Сторінка 323 - I had ever heard. They put me in mind of those heavenly airs that are played to the departed souls of good men upon their first arrival in Paradise, to wear out the impressions of the last agonies, and qualify them for the pleasures of that happy place.
Сторінка 334 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Сторінка 257 - There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion than this, of the perpetual progress which the soul makes towards the perfection of its nature, without ever arriving at a period in it.