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Page 225
... sublimity of his heroic characters . It must , besides , occur to the critical reader ,
that the interest is much weakened by the author's custom of delineating
characters by narratives of past events , instead of expressions of their present
feelings ...
... sublimity of his heroic characters . It must , besides , occur to the critical reader ,
that the interest is much weakened by the author's custom of delineating
characters by narratives of past events , instead of expressions of their present
feelings ...
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Yet no person of taste and feeling can read his works , without experiencing the
strongest interest in his plots , and without contracting a kind of attachment to his
principal characters . This is the sensation produced by the tragedy of Goethe .
Yet no person of taste and feeling can read his works , without experiencing the
strongest interest in his plots , and without contracting a kind of attachment to his
principal characters . This is the sensation produced by the tragedy of Goethe .
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the reader's feelings would be little interested : but , should he be informed by the
friendly interpreters within crotchets , that these words are to be spoken ( very
mournfully , or with real agit : tion , though under a constrained appearance of ...
the reader's feelings would be little interested : but , should he be informed by the
friendly interpreters within crotchets , that these words are to be spoken ( very
mournfully , or with real agit : tion , though under a constrained appearance of ...
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The child was put into a bath at 93 ° , because the thermometer , ander his armpit
, rose no higher , and the temperature seemed perfectly agreeable to his feelings
, as he was perfectly quiet in the bath . In half an hour the pulse was sensibly ...
The child was put into a bath at 93 ° , because the thermometer , ander his armpit
, rose no higher , and the temperature seemed perfectly agreeable to his feelings
, as he was perfectly quiet in the bath . In half an hour the pulse was sensibly ...
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What splendid machinery might be introduced into Shakspeare's Tempest ! Some
of his historical plays would even require the use of battering cannon ; and how
soothing would it prove to the feelings of a manager , to repair the meanness of ...
What splendid machinery might be introduced into Shakspeare's Tempest ! Some
of his historical plays would even require the use of battering cannon ; and how
soothing would it prove to the feelings of a manager , to repair the meanness of ...
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