Samuel Johnson's Literary CriticismUniversity of Nebraska Press, 1974 - 286 páginas |
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... tragedy and comedy be defined " only by their effects upon the mind ” ; he then rep- rehends farcical elements in tragedy , not from the strictly generic standpoint ( i.e. , tragedies by definition cannot admit humor ) , but because ...
... tragedy and comedy be defined " only by their effects upon the mind ” ; he then rep- rehends farcical elements in tragedy , not from the strictly generic standpoint ( i.e. , tragedies by definition cannot admit humor ) , but because ...
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... tragedy may likewise on proper occasions abate her dignity ; but as the comick personages can only depart from their familiarity of stile , when the more violent passions are put in motion , the heroes and queens of tragedy should never ...
... tragedy may likewise on proper occasions abate her dignity ; but as the comick personages can only depart from their familiarity of stile , when the more violent passions are put in motion , the heroes and queens of tragedy should never ...
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... tragedies to - day and comedies to- morrow . Tragedy was not in those times a poem of more general dignity or elevation than comedy ; it required only a calamitous conclu- sion , with which the common criticism of that age was satisfied ...
... tragedies to - day and comedies to- morrow . Tragedy was not in those times a poem of more general dignity or elevation than comedy ; it required only a calamitous conclu- sion , with which the common criticism of that age was satisfied ...
Contenido
FROM THE PERIODICAL CRITICISM 175059 | 1 |
Rambler nos 86 88 and 90 Paradise Lost | 65 |
Preface To A Dictionary of the English Language 1755 | 101 |
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Términos y frases comunes
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