The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volúmenes33-34 |
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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 .
Página 121
... 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 ...
Página 122
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
Página 124
... 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 ...
Términos y frases comunes
Æneid Æschylus Altamont amongst Aristophanes Athenian Athens Attalus Banquo Beaumelle Ben Jonson better Calista called captain Cecrops character Charalois charms Christ comedy confess contempt cried Cynthia death Don Manuel drama Erichthonius Euripides eyes fable Fair Penitent Falstaff Fatal Dowry father favour fortune genius gentleman give Greek hand happy hath heart honour hope Horatio human humour incident inquisidor Lady Touchwood living Lord Touchwood Lothario Macbeth manner Maskwell Mellafont ment merit mind miracle moral Musidorus nature never Nicolas Novall NUMBER observe passed passion Pedrosa person Pisistratus pity play plot poet present racter reader reason replied Romont Saint Mark Sappho scene seems Shakspeare Sir Paul Socrates soul spirit stage striking style taste tell thee thing thou thought tion took tragedy truth turn Volpone whilst wife words write XXXIII young
Pasajes populares
Página 118 - Cannot be ill, cannot be good : if ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion...
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 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 128 - I am settled, and bend up Each corporal agent to this terrible feat. Away, and mock the time with fairest show : False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
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 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 94 - For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth. to the purifying of the flesh : How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Página 86 - And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph...
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.
Página 123 - 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...