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... heroic couplet and observe the unities and for this they found some warrant in their English predecessors but they were at first unable , or rather did not attempt to assimilate the spirit of French tragedy . They were more affected by ...
... heroic couplet and observe the unities and for this they found some warrant in their English predecessors but they were at first unable , or rather did not attempt to assimilate the spirit of French tragedy . They were more affected by ...
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... heroic plays . The absurdities of plot , sentiment , and expression that pervaded the French romances , but were checked on the French stage by critical good taste , soon found their way into English tragedy , where they were at first ...
... heroic plays . The absurdities of plot , sentiment , and expression that pervaded the French romances , but were checked on the French stage by critical good taste , soon found their way into English tragedy , where they were at first ...
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... heroic play . Dryden in his Essay of Heroic Plays has given us a good account of The Siege of Rhodes and of his own indebtedness to it . One paragraph of this essay is especially important : " For heroic plays , ( in which only I have ...
... heroic play . Dryden in his Essay of Heroic Plays has given us a good account of The Siege of Rhodes and of his own indebtedness to it . One paragraph of this essay is especially important : " For heroic plays , ( in which only I have ...
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... heroic sentiment , " and suggestions for his plot , from the Ibrahim of Mlle . de Scudéry . Solyman and Roxolana come directly from the romance , and Alphonso is modeled on the hero Ibrahim . This fact shows the heroic plays to be in ...
... heroic sentiment , " and suggestions for his plot , from the Ibrahim of Mlle . de Scudéry . Solyman and Roxolana come directly from the romance , and Alphonso is modeled on the hero Ibrahim . This fact shows the heroic plays to be in ...
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... heroic couplet . Though not quite certain , it is at least highly probable that one or more of his dramas had been writ- ten , and had become known to the literary public , before the compo- sition of Dryden and Howard's Indian Queen ...
... heroic couplet . Though not quite certain , it is at least highly probable that one or more of his dramas had been writ- ten , and had become known to the literary public , before the compo- sition of Dryden and Howard's Indian Queen ...
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Page 458 - Never ; he will not : Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety : other women cloy The appetites they feed : but she makes hungry Where most she satisfies : for vilest things Become themselves in her; that the holy priests Bless her when she is riggish.
Page 237 - Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below.
Page xxiii - A tragi-comedy is not so called in respect of mirth and killing, but in respect it wants deaths, which is enough to make it no tragedy, yet brings some near to it, which is enough to make it no comedy...
Page 444 - He was perfumed like a milliner ; And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held A pouncet-box, which ever and anon He gave his nose, and took't away again ; — Who therewith angry, when it next came there, Took it in snuff : — and still he smil'd and talk'd . And as the soldiers bore dead bodies by.
Page 248 - They said they would not fight for Cleopatra. Why should they fight indeed, to make her conquer, And make you more a slave ? to gain you kingdoms, Which, for a kiss, at your next midnight feast, You'll sell to her?
Page 294 - O hold ! she is not fled. ANT. She is: my eyes Are open to her falsehood; my whole life Has been a golden dream of love and friendship; But, now I wake, I'm like a merchant, roused From soft repose, to see his vessel sinking, And all his wealth cast over.
Page 277 - Can I do this? Ah, no, my love's so true, That I can neither hide it where it is, Nor show it where it is not. Nature meant me A wife; a silly, harmless, household dove, Fond without art, and kind without deceit...
Page 271 - Go to him, children, go; Kneel to him, take him by the hand, speak to him ; For you may speak, and he may own you too, Without a blush; and so he cannot all His children: go, I say, and pull him to me, And pull him to yourselves, from that bad woman.
Page 449 - Melantha is as finished an impertinent as ever fluttered in a drawing-room, and seems to contain the most complete system of female foppery, that could possibly be crowded into the tortured form of a fine lady. Her language, dress, motion, manners, soul, and body, are in a continual hurry to be something more than is necessary or commendable. And though I doubt it will be a vain labour, to offer you a just likeness of Mrs.
Page 284 - O, wheel you there ? Observe him now ; the Man begins to mend, And talk substantial reason. Fear not, Eunuch, The Emperor has giv'n thee leave to speak. Alex. Else had I never dar'd t...