The Album, Volumen 3J. Andrews., 1823 |
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... perhaps , the most unexceptionably beautiful of the Greek tragedies . With what singular felicity of con- ception is the disposition of the unsuspecting Philoctetes , and of the ingenuous Neoptolemus contrasted with that of the crafty ...
... perhaps , the most unexceptionably beautiful of the Greek tragedies . With what singular felicity of con- ception is the disposition of the unsuspecting Philoctetes , and of the ingenuous Neoptolemus contrasted with that of the crafty ...
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... too , by that alienation of reason , which is perhaps even too terrible for fictitious commiseration , -then , indeed , is the repre- sentation in the highest sense of the word - Tragedy 10 ON ANCIENT AND MODERN TRAGEDY .
... too , by that alienation of reason , which is perhaps even too terrible for fictitious commiseration , -then , indeed , is the repre- sentation in the highest sense of the word - Tragedy 10 ON ANCIENT AND MODERN TRAGEDY .
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... perhaps , instead of less , on account of the previous disunion . We trust that if ( as we have heard ) Mr. Kemble be already buried where he died , a monument at least will be raised to him here . Where those of Shakspeare and Garrick ...
... perhaps , instead of less , on account of the previous disunion . We trust that if ( as we have heard ) Mr. Kemble be already buried where he died , a monument at least will be raised to him here . Where those of Shakspeare and Garrick ...
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... can be produced - and perhaps , in striving to make his tragedy too powerful , some author * The play is only in three acts.-Ed. may reach the long - unapproached point of making it 20 ON ANCIENT AND MODERN TRAGEDY .
... can be produced - and perhaps , in striving to make his tragedy too powerful , some author * The play is only in three acts.-Ed. may reach the long - unapproached point of making it 20 ON ANCIENT AND MODERN TRAGEDY .
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... perhaps the best that has been written on that favourite subject , is a strong instance of this . There is scarcely a scene of which the effect does not mainly depend on some striking situation , or gorgeous display . Of our modern ...
... perhaps the best that has been written on that favourite subject , is a strong instance of this . There is scarcely a scene of which the effect does not mainly depend on some striking situation , or gorgeous display . Of our modern ...
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Página 21 - I'll not shed her blood, Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow, And smooth as monumental alabaster. Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men. Put out the light, and then put out the light.
Página 298 - Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light: But, oh ! she dances such a way— No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight.
Página 410 - A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet ; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food, For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Página 429 - Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it. Think'st thou that I, who saw the face of God And tasted the eternal joys of heaven, Am not tormented with ten thousand hells, In being depriv'd of everlasting bliss?
Página 388 - In a dramatic composition the imagery and the passion should interpenetrate one another, the former being reserved simply for the full developement and illustration of the latter. Imagination is as the immortal God which should assume flesh for the redemption of mortal passion.
Página 410 - She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay.
Página 153 - And falling and brawling and sprawling, And driving and riving and striving, And sprinkling and twinkling and wrinkling, And sounding...
Página 97 - Tis but as ivy-leaves around the ruin'd turret wreath, All green and wildly fresh without, but worn and grey beneath. Oh, could I feel as I have felt, — or be what I have been, Or weep as I could once have wept, o'er many a vanish'd scene ; As springs in deserts found seem sweet, all brackish though they be, So, midst the wither'd waste of life, those tears would flow to me.
Página 94 - My joy was in the Wilderness, to breathe The difficult air of the iced mountain's top, Where the birds dare not build, nor insect's wing Flit o'er the herbless granite...
Página 153 - Sounds and motions forever and ever are blending, All at once and all o'er, with a mighty uproar, — And this way the water comes down at Lodore.