 | 1822 - 686 páginas
...should as soon expect an orator to compose a speech altogether unfit to be spoken. A drama is not merely a dialogue, but an action : and necessarily supposes...excite the emotions, and keep alive the attention, of gazing multitudes. If an author does not bear this continually in nis mind, and docs not write in the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1832 - 392 páginas
...should as soon expect an orator to compose a speech altogether unfit to be spoken. A drama is not merely a dialogue, but an action ; and necessarily supposes...is to pass before the eyes of assembled spectators. What. ever is peculiar to its written part, should derive its peculiarity from this consideration.... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 390 páginas
...should as soon expect an orator to compose a speech altogether unfit to be spoken. A drama is not merely a dialogue, but an action ; and necessarily supposes...excite the emotions, and keep alive the attention, of gazing multitudes. If an author does not bear this con. tinually in his mind, and does not write in... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 394 páginas
...should as soon expect an orator to compose a speech altogether unfit to be spoken. A drama is not merely a dialogue, but an action ; and necessarily supposes...style should be an accompaniment to action, and should he calculated to excite the emotions, and keep alive the attention, of gazing multitudes. If an author... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1834 - 390 páginas
...world, and is still so in the more civilized parts of it!" A play is not a mere dialogue; it implies action, and necessarily supposes that something is to 'pass before the eyes of the audience. That Lord Hyron thought of all this as he wrote, there can l>e 110 doubt, since the reader... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 396 páginas
...altogether unfit to be spoken. A drama is not merely a dialogue, but an action ; and necessarily suppose! that something is to pass before the eyes of assembled...excite the emotions, and keep alive the attention, of gazing multitudes* If an author does not bear this continually in his mind, and does not write in the... | |
 | Alfred Bunn - 1840 - 346 páginas
...the dramatist at that time, and until my secession from Drury Lane, not merely the reader of thing is to pass before the eyes of assembled spectators....emotions, and keep alive the attention of assembled multitudes. If Lord Byron really does not wish to impregnate his elaborate scenes with the living part... | |
 | Alfred Bunn - 1840 - 342 páginas
...the dramatist at that time, and until my secession from Drury Lane, not merely the reader of thing is to pass before the eyes of assembled spectators....emotions, and keep alive the attention of assembled multitudes. If Lord Byron really does not wish to impregnate his elaborate scenes with the living part... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1842 - 866 páginas
...a* ío*i expect an orator to compose a speech altogether unfit to be tprken, A drama it not merely a dialogue, but an action; and necessarily supposes that something is to pass before the гум r»f assembled spectators. Whatever is peculiar to iU «ritten part, should derive its peculiarity... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1844 - 540 páginas
...should as soon expect an orator to compose a speech altogether unfit to be spoken. A drama is not merely a dialogue, but an action : and necessarily supposes...peculiarity from this consideration. Its style should be throughout an accompaniment to action — and should be calculated to excite the emotions, and keep... | |
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We do not think those opinions very consistent; and we think that neither of them could possibly find favour with a person whose genius had a truly dramatic character. We should as soon expect an orator to compose a speech altogether unfit to be spoken.... 
