The British Essayists: ObserverC. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
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... tragedy , overlook its moral . Four successive parliaments , improvidently dis- solved , were sufficient warnings for the fifth to fall upon expedients for securing to themselves a more permanent duration , by laying some restraints ...
... tragedy , overlook its moral . Four successive parliaments , improvidently dis- solved , were sufficient warnings for the fifth to fall upon expedients for securing to themselves a more permanent duration , by laying some restraints ...
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... fancy of our poet upon a resource , in which he has been rivalled only by the great father of tragedy Eschylus in the prophetic effusions of Cassandra , the incantations of the Persian Magi for raising the ghost 120 No. 69 . OBSERVER .
... fancy of our poet upon a resource , in which he has been rivalled only by the great father of tragedy Eschylus in the prophetic effusions of Cassandra , the incantations of the Persian Magi for raising the ghost 120 No. 69 . OBSERVER .
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... tragedy , but this is not to be interpreted as if he was the inventor of it . Shakspeare with equal justice claims the same title , and his originality is qualified with the same excep- tion . The Greek tragedy was not more rude and ...
... tragedy , but this is not to be interpreted as if he was the inventor of it . Shakspeare with equal justice claims the same title , and his originality is qualified with the same excep- tion . The Greek tragedy was not more rude and ...
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... tragedy has no dealing with them the simplicity of the Greek fable , and the great portion of the drama filled up by the chorus , al- low of little variety of character ; and the most which can be said of Eschylus in this particular is ...
... tragedy has no dealing with them the simplicity of the Greek fable , and the great portion of the drama filled up by the chorus , al- low of little variety of character ; and the most which can be said of Eschylus in this particular is ...
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... Tragedy can speak no strong- er language , nor could any genius less than Shak- speare's support a character of so lofty a pitch , so sublimely terrible at the very opening . The part which Lady Macbeth fills in the drama has a relative ...
... Tragedy can speak no strong- er language , nor could any genius less than Shak- speare's support a character of so lofty a pitch , so sublimely terrible at the very opening . The part which Lady Macbeth fills in the drama has a relative ...
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Æneid Altamont amongst appears Attalus Banquo Beaumelle beauty Ben Jonson better Calista character Charalois charm Chorus Christ Claudian comedy comic contempt cried Cynthia David Levi death Diphilus divine drama Eschylus Euripides fable Fair Penitent Falstaff Fatal Dowry father favour fig-tree genius gentleman give Greek hand happy hath heart honour Horatio human humour imitation incident Jews Jonson Lady Touchwood living Lord Touchwood Lothario Macbeth mankind manner Maskwell Mellafont merit mind miracle moral Moses murder nature never Nicolas Novall NUMBER observe pass passage passion Pedrosa person play plot poet present purpose racter reader reason religion Rochfort Romont Saint Mark Saint Matthew scene seems Shakspeare sion soul speak spirit stage stand striking style sublime taste tell thee thing thou thought tion tragedy truth turn Volpone whilst witches words writers XXXIII
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Página 119 - I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, • Against the use of nature...
Página 134 - Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day; And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale! Light thickens; and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood: Good things of day begin to droop and drowse; Whiles night's black agents to their preys do rouse.
Página 100 - And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him: 17 And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
Página 157 - Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake; Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog...
Página 93 - Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments ; which eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels ; 5 Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me ; for I am holier than thou.
Página 124 - The effect and it ! Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murth'ring ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief ! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry "Hold, hold!
Página 88 - Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me.
Página 124 - Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty ! make thick my blood, Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose...
Página 168 - But will arise, and his great name assert : Dagon must stoop, and shall ere long receive Such a discomfit, as shall quite despoil him Of all these boasted trophies won on me, And with confusion blank his worshippers.
Página 99 - Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise. When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.