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Page 209 - Quid sum, miser ! tune dicturus ? Quern patronum rogaturus ? Cum vix Justus sit securus.
Page 12 - Alexandrines is a still greater obstacle than even the routine of good taste, to any change in the form and substance of the French tragedies : it cannot be said in an Alexandrine verse that one comes in or goes out, that one sleeps or wakes, without seeking some poetical turn by which to express it ; and numberless sentiments and effects are banished from the theatre, not by the rules of tragedy, but by the very exigencies of the verse. Racine is the only French writer who, in the scene between...
Page 381 - Germany ; but far from depending on that originality, though it promised him much success, he endeavoured to assist it by extensive study. It is a great proof of our respect for the human species, when we dare not address it from the suggestions of our own minds without having first conscientiously examined into all that has been left to us by our predecessors as an inheritance.
Page 348 - God ? he replied : There is none. — All the " spectres then began to tremble violently, " and Christ continued thus : I have traversed " worlds, I have raised myself above their " suns, and there also, there is no God ; I " have descended to the lowest limits of the " universe, I looked into the abyss, and I " cried : — O Father, where art thou...
Page 394 - Pagans: but at \vhateverperiod a creative imagination shall again spring up from amongst men, it will assuredly not be in an imitation of the ancients, that its effects will be perceived. The new school maintains the same system in the fine arts, as in literature, and affirms that Christianity is the source of all modern genius ; the writers of this school also characterize, in a new manner, all that in Gothic architecture agrees with the religious sentiments of Christians. It does not follow however...
Page 402 - As in romances and ballads there is not much music, the little that there is may be subjected to the words ; but in the great effects of melody, we should endeavour to reach the soul by an immediate sensation.
Page 376 - It is not a barren nomenclature of the works of the various authors: he seizes the spirit of their different sorts of literature with all the imagination of a poet. We are sensible that to produce such consequences extraordinary studies are required: but learning is not perceived in this work, except by his perfect knowledge of the chefs-d'oeuvre of composition.
Page 170 - The morbid sensibility of Tasso is well known, as well as the polished rudeness of his protector Alphonso, who, professing the highest admiration for his writings, shut him up in a madhouse, as if that genius which springs from the soul were to be treated like the production of a mechanical talent, by valuing the work while we despise the workman.
Page 312 - S'approchaient, me montraient avec un ris farouche : Leur doigt mystérieux se posait sur leur bouche. Je leur parle, et dans l'ombre ils s'échappent soudain ; L'un avec un poignard , l'autre un sceptre à la main, L'autre d'un long serpent serrait...
Page 394 - The new school maintains the same system in the fine aits, as in literature, and affirms that Christianity is the source of all modern genius ; the writers of this school, also characterize, in a new manner, all that in Gothic architecture agrees with the religious sentiments of Christians. It does not follow however from this, that the moderns can and ought to construct Gothic 'churches ; neither art nor nature admit of repetition : it is only of consequence to us, in the present silence of genius,...