Representative English Dramas from Dryden to SheridanOxford University Press, American Branch, 1914 - 459 pages |
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... passion common to you with a brother , the most excellent of kings ; and in your two persons are eminent the characters which Homer has given us of heroic virtue : the commanding part in Agamemnon , and the executive in Achilles . " It ...
... passion common to you with a brother , the most excellent of kings ; and in your two persons are eminent the characters which Homer has given us of heroic virtue : the commanding part in Agamemnon , and the executive in Achilles . " It ...
Page 8
... passionate lover , and she dispenses wisdom and convincing argument in couplets as elegant as her sentiments are fine . It was these scenes of debate , usually on love , that Scott says were the most applauded in the heroic plays ; they ...
... passionate lover , and she dispenses wisdom and convincing argument in couplets as elegant as her sentiments are fine . It was these scenes of debate , usually on love , that Scott says were the most applauded in the heroic plays ; they ...
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... passions , the descriptions , are all exalted above the level of common converse , as high as the imagination of the poet can carry them , with proportion to verisimility . . . . Heroic rhyme is nearest Nature , as being the noblest ...
... passions , the descriptions , are all exalted above the level of common converse , as high as the imagination of the poet can carry them , with proportion to verisimility . . . . Heroic rhyme is nearest Nature , as being the noblest ...
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... passions are , and yet how blind ! - She's gone ; and now , Methinks there is less glory in a crown : My boiling passions settle , and go down . Like amber chafed , when she is near , she acts ; When farther off , inclines , but not ...
... passions are , and yet how blind ! - She's gone ; and now , Methinks there is less glory in a crown : My boiling passions settle , and go down . Like amber chafed , when she is near , she acts ; When farther off , inclines , but not ...
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... passion , when I show I dare be wretched , not to make her so : And , while another passion fills her breast , I'll be all wretched rather than half blest . Abdal . May your heroic act so prosperous be , That Almahide may sigh you set ...
... passion , when I show I dare be wretched , not to make her so : And , while another passion fills her breast , I'll be all wretched rather than half blest . Abdal . May your heroic act so prosperous be , That Almahide may sigh you set ...
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