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... tragic and as a comic writer in Meres Palladis Tamia ( 1598 ) . During the next seven years he seems , with the exception of one other comedy , to have written nothing further for the stage , the reason doubtless being that he was ...
... tragic and as a comic writer in Meres Palladis Tamia ( 1598 ) . During the next seven years he seems , with the exception of one other comedy , to have written nothing further for the stage , the reason doubtless being that he was ...
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... tragic nor in the comic branch of the playwright's art , it would almost seem as if Chapman had lacked the power , when working alone , of fully developing a character by means of dramatic action : as plays none of about by Montmorency ...
... tragic nor in the comic branch of the playwright's art , it would almost seem as if Chapman had lacked the power , when working alone , of fully developing a character by means of dramatic action : as plays none of about by Montmorency ...
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... tragic effect . But he has treated it superficially and wholly without power ; while the absurd incongruity of combining a satirical picture of the ' Humorous Poet , ' the Horace of The Poetaster , with a romantic story playing at the ...
... tragic effect . But he has treated it superficially and wholly without power ; while the absurd incongruity of combining a satirical picture of the ' Humorous Poet , ' the Horace of The Poetaster , with a romantic story playing at the ...
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... tragic power ; for at times his pathos is beyond doubt singularly sudden and direct . A fuller measure of success he only commands within a limited sphere . In this , though the grossness of his realism makes it impossible for a more ...
... tragic power ; for at times his pathos is beyond doubt singularly sudden and direct . A fuller measure of success he only commands within a limited sphere . In this , though the grossness of his realism makes it impossible for a more ...
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... tragic genius1 . The other part of the plot is of a more com- plicated description ; and turns on the supposition that a noble Spaniard Alvarez has , to escape from the hands of justice after slaying an adversary in a duel ( twelve ...
... tragic genius1 . The other part of the plot is of a more com- plicated description ; and turns on the supposition that a noble Spaniard Alvarez has , to escape from the hands of justice after slaying an adversary in a duel ( twelve ...
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A History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of Queen Anne: 2 Adolphus William Ward Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1875 |
A History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of Queen Anne, Volum 2 Sir Adolphus William Ward Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1875 |
A History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of Queen Anne, Volum 2 Sir Adolphus William Ward Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1875 |
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Side 230 - Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights, Wherein you spend your folly : There's nought in this life sweet If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy, O sweetest Melancholy...
Side 527 - O gracious God! how far have we Profaned thy heavenly gift of Poesy! Made prostitute and profligate the Muse, Debased to each obscene and impious use, Whose harmony was first ordained above, For tongues of angels and for hymns of love!
Side 204 - All, all of a piece throughout ; Thy chase had a beast in view : Thy wars brought nothing about ; Thy lovers were all untrue. 'Tis well an old age is out, And time to begin a new.
Side 78 - Shakspeare have neither child of their own, nor seem to be descended from any parent. They are foul Anomalies, of whom we know not whence they are sprung, nor whether they have beginning or ending. As they are without human passions, so they seem to be without human relations. They come with thunder and lightning, and vanish to airy musiC. This is all we know of them. Except Hecate, they have no names ; which heightens their mysteriousness.
Side 77 - Those originate deeds of blood and begin bad impulses to men. From the moment that their eyes first meet with Macbeth's, he is spell-bound. That meeting sways his destiny. He can never break the fascination. These witches can hurt the body ; those have power over the soul.