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... tragedy appear with that action which is capable of giving dignity to the forced thoughts , cold conceits , and unnatural expressions of an Italian opera ! In the meantime , I have related this combat of the lion , to show what are at ...
... tragedy appear with that action which is capable of giving dignity to the forced thoughts , cold conceits , and unnatural expressions of an Italian opera ! In the meantime , I have related this combat of the lion , to show what are at ...
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... tragedy ? Music is certainly a very agreeable entertainment ; but if it would take the entire possession of our ears , if it would make us incapable of hearing sense , if it would exclude arts that have a much greater tendency to the ...
... tragedy ? Music is certainly a very agreeable entertainment ; but if it would take the entire possession of our ears , if it would make us incapable of hearing sense , if it would exclude arts that have a much greater tendency to the ...
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... tragedy , to complain that the actors all of them speak in a tone : and therefore he very wisely prefers his own countrymen , not considering that a foreigner complains of the same tone in an English actor . For this reason , the ...
... tragedy , to complain that the actors all of them speak in a tone : and therefore he very wisely prefers his own countrymen , not considering that a foreigner complains of the same tone in an English actor . For this reason , the ...
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... tragedy is the noblest production of human nature , so it is capable of giving the mind one of the most delightful and most improving entertainments . A virtuous man ( says Seneca ) strug- gling with misfortune , is such a spectacle as ...
... tragedy is the noblest production of human nature , so it is capable of giving the mind one of the most delightful and most improving entertainments . A virtuous man ( says Seneca ) strug- gling with misfortune , is such a spectacle as ...
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... tragedy . Diversions of this kind wear out of our thoughts every thing that is mean and little . They cherish and cultivate that humanity which is the ornament of our nature . They soften insolence , sooth affliction , and subdue the ...
... tragedy . Diversions of this kind wear out of our thoughts every thing that is mean and little . They cherish and cultivate that humanity which is the ornament of our nature . They soften insolence , sooth affliction , and subdue the ...
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Page 1 - I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Page 370 - My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd, so sanded " ; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-knee'd, and dew-lap'd like Thessalian bulls; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each. A cry more tuneable Was never holla'd to, nor cheer'd with horn, In Crete, in Sparta, nor in Thessaly : Judge, when you hear.
Page 340 - HAVING often received an invitation from my friend Sir Roger de Coverley, to pass away a month with him in the country, I last week accompanied him thither, and am settled with him for some time at his countryhouse, where I intend to form several of my ensuing speculations. Sir Roger, who is very well acquainted with my humour, lets me rise and go to bed when I please, dine at his own table or in my chamber as I think fit, sit still and say nothing without bidding me be merry. When the gentlemen...
Page 356 - There is not, in my opinion, a more pleasing and triumphant consideration in religion than this of the perpetual progress which the soul makes towards the perfection of its nature, without ever arriving at a period in it.
Page 197 - For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another, ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being mis-led by similitude, and by affinity, to take one thing for another.
Page 356 - But a man can never have taken in his full measure of knowledge, has not time to subdue his passions, establish his soul in virtue, and come up to the perfection of his nature, before he is hurried off the stage.
Page 225 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet: and yet it is sung by some blind crowder with no rougher voice than rude style; which being so evil apparelled in the dust and cobweb of that uncivil age, what would it work trimmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindar?
Page 6 - His tenants grow rich, his servants look satisfied, all the young women profess love to him, and the young men are glad of his company.
Page 293 - With what all Earth or Heaven could bestow To make her amiable...
Page 359 - ... the death of the present incumbent, who is very old, to bestow it according to merit. The fair understanding between Sir Roger and his chaplain, and their mutual concurrence in doing good, is the more remarkable because the very next village is famous for the differences and contentions that rise between the parson and the "squire, who live in a perpetual state of war. The parson is always preaching at the 'squire; and the 'squire, to be revenged on the parson, never comes to church.