The Spectator, Svazek 2 |
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ON TRAGEDY . As a perfect 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 ) struggling with misfortunes ...
ON TRAGEDY . As a perfect 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 ) struggling with misfortunes ...
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which one meets with in the representation of a well written tragedy . Diversions of this kind wear out of our thoughts every thing that is mean and little . Tliey cherish and cultivate that humanity which is the ornament of our nature ...
which one meets with in the representation of a well written tragedy . Diversions of this kind wear out of our thoughts every thing that is mean and little . Tliey cherish and cultivate that humanity which is the ornament of our nature ...
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I would not however debar the poet from concluding his tragedy , or if he pleases , every act of it , with two or three couplets , which may have the same effect as an air in the Italian opera after a long recitativo , and give the ...
I would not however debar the poet from concluding his tragedy , or if he pleases , every act of it , with two or three couplets , which may have the same effect as an air in the Italian opera after a long recitativo , and give the ...
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... writers of our English tragedy . I must in the next place observe , that when our thoughts are great and just , they are often obscured by the sounding phrases , hard metaphors , and forced expressions in which they are cloathed .
... writers of our English tragedy . I must in the next place observe , that when our thoughts are great and just , they are often obscured by the sounding phrases , hard metaphors , and forced expressions in which they are cloathed .
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His thoughts are wonderfully suited to tragedy , but frequently lost in such a cloud of words , that it is hard to see the beauty of them . There is an infinite fire in his works , but so involved in smoke , that it does not appear in ...
His thoughts are wonderfully suited to tragedy , but frequently lost in such a cloud of words , that it is hard to see the beauty of them . There is an infinite fire in his works , but so involved in smoke , that it does not appear in ...
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