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... peculiar rules and maxims of each species to be derived . THE PURPOSE OF THE DRAMA is , univer- sally , " to represent human life in the way of " action . " But as such representation is made for separate and distinct ENDS , it is ...
... peculiar rules and maxims of each species to be derived . THE PURPOSE OF THE DRAMA is , univer- sally , " to represent human life in the way of " action . " But as such representation is made for separate and distinct ENDS , it is ...
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... peculiar , as common , which might be ac- counted for from the just notion of them , de- livered above , I leave to the observation of the reader . For my intention is not to write a complete treatise on the drama , but briefly to lay ...
... peculiar , as common , which might be ac- counted for from the just notion of them , de- livered above , I leave to the observation of the reader . For my intention is not to write a complete treatise on the drama , but briefly to lay ...
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... peculiar traits , which distinguish the species . Now these discriminating marks in the characters of men are not necessarily the causes of ridicule , or pleasantry of any kind ; but accidentally , and according to the nature or quality ...
... peculiar traits , which distinguish the species . Now these discriminating marks in the characters of men are not necessarily the causes of ridicule , or pleasantry of any kind ; but accidentally , and according to the nature or quality ...
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... which we find in the ancients , and especially Terence . The latter is almost peculiar to the moderns ; who , in uniting these two species of humour , scene . have brought a vast improvement to the comic THE DRAMA . 59.
... which we find in the ancients , and especially Terence . The latter is almost peculiar to the moderns ; who , in uniting these two species of humour , scene . have brought a vast improvement to the comic THE DRAMA . 59.
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... peculiarly striking lineaments , in which the essence of character consists . On the same account , I suppose , it was that the ancients had fewer characters in their plays , than the moderns , and those more general ; that is , their ...
... peculiarly striking lineaments , in which the essence of character consists . On the same account , I suppose , it was that the ancients had fewer characters in their plays , than the moderns , and those more general ; that is , their ...
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Page 256 - Begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, 460 The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turns it by degrees to the soul's essence, Till all be made immortal ; but when lust By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies, and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being.
Page 255 - His honour and the greatness of his name Shall be, and make new nations ; he shall flourish, And, like a mountain cedar, reach his branches To all the plains about him ; our children's children Shall see this and bless heaven.
Page 256 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become • A kneaded clod...
Page 133 - Tout est dit : et l'on vient trop tard depuis plus de sept mille ans qu'il ya des hommes, et qui pensent.
Page 256 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Page 286 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Page 256 - When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
Page 256 - Sirens' harmony, That sit upon the nine infolded spheres, And sing to those that hold the vital shears, And turn the adamantine spindle round On which the fate of gods and men is wound.
Page 278 - Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.
Page 256 - Superior beings, when of late they saw A mortal man unfold all nature's law, Admir'd such wisdom in an earthly shape, And shew'da Newton as we shew an ape.