A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Source of the Pleasures Derived from Tragic Representations: From which is Deduced the Secret of Giving Dramatic Interest to Tragedies Intended for the StageSherwood, Jones and Company, 1824 - 405 pages |
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... audience attend only to what passes before them , and seldom revert to such abstract meditations as they suggest to a contemplative mind . Philosophers frequently err in ascribing their own thoughts and feelings to others ; for though ...
... audience attend only to what passes before them , and seldom revert to such abstract meditations as they suggest to a contemplative mind . Philosophers frequently err in ascribing their own thoughts and feelings to others ; for though ...
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... audience if it be bung- lingly represented ; yet the distress is the same whether it be represented by a good or a bad actor . It matters little whether a man be put to death clown - like , or soldier - like , whether poison be drank ...
... audience if it be bung- lingly represented ; yet the distress is the same whether it be represented by a good or a bad actor . It matters little whether a man be put to death clown - like , or soldier - like , whether poison be drank ...
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... audience is not supposed to be present , or , at least , every character acts and speaks as if there were no audience . All the parties , accordingly , attend only to their own mutual affections or antipathies , friendships or enmities ...
... audience is not supposed to be present , or , at least , every character acts and speaks as if there were no audience . All the parties , accordingly , attend only to their own mutual affections or antipathies , friendships or enmities ...
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... audience , just at the mo- ment when their minds are erect with expectation , let it be reported that a state criminal of high rank is to be executed in the adjoining square ; in a moment the emptiness of the theatre would de- monstrate ...
... audience , just at the mo- ment when their minds are erect with expectation , let it be reported that a state criminal of high rank is to be executed in the adjoining square ; in a moment the emptiness of the theatre would de- monstrate ...
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... audience , they were then the most highly delighted , and expressed the greatest satisfaction with the pleader . The pathetic description of the butchery made by Verres of the Sicilian captains , is a masterpiece of this kind . But I ...
... audience , they were then the most highly delighted , and expressed the greatest satisfaction with the pleader . The pathetic description of the butchery made by Verres of the Sicilian captains , is a masterpiece of this kind . But I ...
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Page 129 - Mine eyes are made the fools o' the other senses, Or else worth all the rest; I see thee still, And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood, Which was not so before.
Page 148 - Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurled, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Page 290 - Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of Nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life. His characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised by the rest of the world; by the peculiarities of studies or professions, which can operate but upon small numbers; or by the accidents of transient fashions or temporary opinions: they are the genuine progeny of common humanity, such as the world will...
Page 179 - tis hard to combat, learns to fly ! For him no wretches born to work and weep Explore the mine or tempt the dangerous deep...
Page 286 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief ? Fare you well: had you such a loss as I, I could give better comfort than you do.
Page 179 - Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay, While Resignation gently slopes the way; And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.
Page 74 - To pay the mournful tribute of his tears ? Oh ! he will tell thee, that the wealth of worlds Should ne'er seduce his bosom to forego That sacred hour, when, stealing from the noise Of care and envy, sweet remembrance soothes With Virtue's kindest looks his aching breast, And turns his tears to rapture.
Page 384 - That for some vicious mole of nature in them As in their birth wherein they are not guilty Since nature cannot choose his origin By the o'ergrowth of some complexion Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason...
Page 128 - Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand ? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight ? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain ? I see thee yet, in form as palpable As this which now I draw.
Page 155 - Subject, compound them, follow her and God. Love, hope, and joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, fear, and grief, the family of pain...