The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Volume 6J. M. Dent and Sons, Limited, 1931 |
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Page 30
... tragedies , is but natural . This is only saying that a comedy is not so serious a thing as a tragedy . But that he shewed a greater mastery in the one than the other , I cannot allow , nor is it generally felt . The labour which the ...
... tragedies , is but natural . This is only saying that a comedy is not so serious a thing as a tragedy . But that he shewed a greater mastery in the one than the other , I cannot allow , nor is it generally felt . The labour which the ...
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... tragedy which fairly throws nature open to you . It is tragedy in masquerade . We never get beyond conjecture and reasoning - beyond the general impression of the situation of the persons - beyond general reflections on their passions ...
... tragedy which fairly throws nature open to you . It is tragedy in masquerade . We never get beyond conjecture and reasoning - beyond the general impression of the situation of the persons - beyond general reflections on their passions ...
Page 360
... tragedy ( and our own , which is only a branch of it ) aims at effect , and produces it often in the highest degree ; and it does this by going all the lengths not only of instinctive feeling , but of speculative opinion , and startling ...
... tragedy ( and our own , which is only a branch of it ) aims at effect , and produces it often in the highest degree ; and it does this by going all the lengths not only of instinctive feeling , but of speculative opinion , and startling ...
Contents
LECTURE I | 5 |
LECTURE II | 30 |
On Cowley Butler Suckling Etherege | 70 |
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