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... gedy is an imitation , not of men , but of their actions , lives , good or ill for tune ; all which confift in action ; and the the end is not a quality , but an action ( 2 ) enquiries, Let us confider tragedy un- ...
... gedy is an imitation , not of men , but of their actions , lives , good or ill for tune ; all which confift in action ; and the the end is not a quality , but an action ( 2 ) enquiries, Let us confider tragedy un- ...
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... gedy : this must be apparent to every one . The action is truly great , import ant , and tragical ; and a fufpenfive ter- ror must hang continually on the minds of an audience , during its representation . The history the fable is taken ...
... gedy : this must be apparent to every one . The action is truly great , import ant , and tragical ; and a fufpenfive ter- ror must hang continually on the minds of an audience , during its representation . The history the fable is taken ...
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... truly tragic in its confequences .. In spite of all the great and glaring faults which we fee in Hamlet , that tra- gedy , if altered by a man of genius , the fuper- A } fuperfluous scenes left out , and the piece ( 44 )
... truly tragic in its confequences .. In spite of all the great and glaring faults which we fee in Hamlet , that tra- gedy , if altered by a man of genius , the fuper- A } fuperfluous scenes left out , and the piece ( 44 )
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... gedy ought to leave on the minds of an audience . The language of the piece is , in general , chaste and manly , and fome of the fentiments very noble ; but in point of fable and characters , few trage- dies are fo faulty . TH SECT . IV ...
... gedy ought to leave on the minds of an audience . The language of the piece is , in general , chaste and manly , and fome of the fentiments very noble ; but in point of fable and characters , few trage- dies are fo faulty . TH SECT . IV ...
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... gedy concludes with a pathetic fpeech of Zanga's to the dead body of Alonzo , in which his inhuman mind relents , and he cries out , O vengeance ! I have follow'd thee too far , And to receive me hell blows all her fires . Many readers ...
... gedy concludes with a pathetic fpeech of Zanga's to the dead body of Alonzo , in which his inhuman mind relents , and he cries out , O vengeance ! I have follow'd thee too far , And to receive me hell blows all her fires . Many readers ...
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Page 134 - That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth! Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month, Let me not think on't: Frailty, thy name is woman!
Page 185 - Good heav'ns, is this, — is this the man who braves me? Who bids my age make way, drives me before him, To the world's ridge, and sweeps me off like rubbish?
Page 135 - Let me not think on't; frailty, thy name is woman A little month, or ere those shoes were old With which she...
Page 42 - James, in which this tragedy was written, many circumstances concurred to propagate and confirm this opinion. The king, who was much celebrated for his knowledge, had, before his arrival in England, not only examined in person a woman accused of witchcraft but had given a very formal account of the practices and...
Page 135 - ... uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules: within a month, Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married.
Page 40 - IN order to make a true estimate of the abilities and merit of a writer, it is always necessary to examine the genius of his age, and the opinions of his contemporaries.
Page 43 - Shakespeare might be easily allowed to found a play, especially since he has followed with great exactness such histories as were then thought true ; nor can it be doubted that the scenes of enchantment, however they may now be ridiculed, were both by himself and his audience thought awful and affecting.
Page 135 - But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two: So excellent a king; that was, to this, Hyperion to a...
Page 85 - I arrest you in the name of mercy, And dare compel your stay: Is then one look, One word, one moment, a last moment too, When I stand tottering on the brink of death, A cruel ignominious death, too much For one that loves like me ? A length of years You may devote to my blest rival's arms, I ask but one short moment.
Page 96 - Christian, thou mistak'st my character. Look on me. Who am I ? I know, thou say'st The Moor, a slave, an abject, beaten slave (Eternal woes to him that made me so!): But look again. Has six years cruel bondage...