Synopsis of the Greek Drama Including Biographical Notices ...: With a Dramatic ChronologyW. Tower, 1838 - 62 páginas |
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... tion or conflict as the plot of a drama requires ? Weaknesses , errors , and even crimes were portrayed in them ; but the manners were al- Iways elevated above reality , and every person was invested with a dignity compatible with the ...
... tion or conflict as the plot of a drama requires ? Weaknesses , errors , and even crimes were portrayed in them ; but the manners were al- Iways elevated above reality , and every person was invested with a dignity compatible with the ...
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... tion of the Tragic Stage , would be a desperate undertaking . Some accounts are so liberal to Eschylus as scarce to leave his successors any room for farther improvements . They give him paintings , ma- chinery , altars , tombs ...
... tion of the Tragic Stage , would be a desperate undertaking . Some accounts are so liberal to Eschylus as scarce to leave his successors any room for farther improvements . They give him paintings , ma- chinery , altars , tombs ...
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... tion , which we find observed in the same order in Sophocles , Euripi- des has completely reversed . Passion is the principal object with him ; his next care is for character ; and when these endeavors leave him still any remaining room ...
... tion , which we find observed in the same order in Sophocles , Euripi- des has completely reversed . Passion is the principal object with him ; his next care is for character ; and when these endeavors leave him still any remaining room ...
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... tion , and requires the display of no higher qualities ; and he is still more so where pathos and moral beauty are united . It is by no means my intention to deny him the possession of the most astonishing ta- lents ; I have only stated ...
... tion , and requires the display of no higher qualities ; and he is still more so where pathos and moral beauty are united . It is by no means my intention to deny him the possession of the most astonishing ta- lents ; I have only stated ...
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... tion of real persons under their true names , was at no time an indis- pensable requisite . We find characters in many pieces , even of Aris- tophanes , in no respect historical , but altogether fictitious , with sig- nificant names ...
... tion of real persons under their true names , was at no time an indis- pensable requisite . We find characters in many pieces , even of Aris- tophanes , in no respect historical , but altogether fictitious , with sig- nificant names ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Página 30 - Now strike the golden lyre again: A louder yet, and yet a louder strain ! Break his bands of sleep asunder And rouse him like a rattling peal of thunder. Hark, hark ! the horrid sound Has raised up his head : As awaked from the dead, And amazed he stares around. Revenge, revenge...
Página 35 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. 'But not the praise...
Página 30 - And unburied remain Inglorious on the plain: Give the vengeance due To the valiant crew! Behold how they toss their torches on high, How they point to the Persian abodes And glittering temples of their hostile gods.
Página 21 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Página 35 - But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes And perfect witness of all-judging Jove; As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed.
Página 23 - Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave. A king sate on the rocky brow Which looks o'er sea-born Salamis; And ships by thousands lay below, And men in nations; — all were his! He counted them at break of day, And when the sun set, where were they?
Página 21 - Ave Maria ! blessed be the hour ! The time, the clime, the spot, where I so oft Have felt that moment in its fullest power Sink o'er the earth so beautiful and soft, While swung the deep bell in the distant tower. Or the faint dying day-hymn stole aloft, And not a breath crept through the rosy air, And yet the forest leaves seem'd stirr'd with prayer.
Página 35 - Alas! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair?
Página 21 - tis the hour of prayer ! Ave Maria ! 'tis the hour of love ! Ave Maria ! may our spirits dare Look up to thine and to thy Son's above...
Página 20 - She gave a heel, and then a lurch to port, And, going down head foremost — sunk, in short.