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... tragic elevation : and , 2. Tragedy , in its foft diftrefsful fcenes , condefcends to the ease of familiar conversation . But the poet had a further view in chufing this instance . For he gets by this means into the main of his fubject ...
... tragic elevation : and , 2. Tragedy , in its foft diftrefsful fcenes , condefcends to the ease of familiar conversation . But the poet had a further view in chufing this instance . For he gets by this means into the main of his fubject ...
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... TRAGIC STYLE ; which will be different , 1. [ to 1. 111 ] according to the internal fate and character of the speaker : thus one fort of expreffion will become the angry , another , the forrowful ; this , the gay , that , the fevere ...
... TRAGIC STYLE ; which will be different , 1. [ to 1. 111 ] according to the internal fate and character of the speaker : thus one fort of expreffion will become the angry , another , the forrowful ; this , the gay , that , the fevere ...
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... tragic . For , taking its rife , not from the flatter ing views of the poet , but the real fituation of the actor , its opening muft , of neceffity , be very simple and un- pretending . And being , from its fhort term of ac- tion ...
... tragic . For , taking its rife , not from the flatter ing views of the poet , but the real fituation of the actor , its opening muft , of neceffity , be very simple and un- pretending . And being , from its fhort term of ac- tion ...
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... tragic chorus , together with a short glance at the other improvements of num- bers , ftyle , & c . neceffarily connected with it , gives him the opportunity of going off eafily into a subject of near affinity with this , viz . the ...
... tragic chorus , together with a short glance at the other improvements of num- bers , ftyle , & c . neceffarily connected with it , gives him the opportunity of going off eafily into a subject of near affinity with this , viz . the ...
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... tragic fhews . But , 2. To convert , as far as was poffible , what was thus a neceffary facrifice to the taste of the multitude into a tolerable entertainment for the better fort , he lays down [ from 1. 225 to 240 ] the exacteft ...
... tragic fhews . But , 2. To convert , as far as was poffible , what was thus a neceffary facrifice to the taste of the multitude into a tolerable entertainment for the better fort , he lays down [ from 1. 225 to 240 ] the exacteft ...
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