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... will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing - room , and a few columns in every magazine ; and it will then , to bor- row the elegant language of the play - bills , be withdrawn , to make room for the forthcoming novelties .
... will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing - room , and a few columns in every magazine ; and it will then , to bor- row the elegant language of the play - bills , be withdrawn , to make room for the forthcoming novelties .
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He does not paint a finished picture , or play for a mere passive listener . He sketches , and leaves others to fill up the outline . He strikes the key - note , and expects his hearer to make out the melody .
He does not paint a finished picture , or play for a mere passive listener . He sketches , and leaves others to fill up the outline . He strikes the key - note , and expects his hearer to make out the melody .
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They are both lyric poems in the form of plays . There are perhaps no two kinds of composition so essentially dissimilar as the drama and the ode . The business of the dramatist is to keep himself out of sight , and to let nothing ...
They are both lyric poems in the form of plays . There are perhaps no two kinds of composition so essentially dissimilar as the drama and the ode . The business of the dramatist is to keep himself out of sight , and to let nothing ...
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Considered as plays , his works are absurd : considered as choruses , they are above all praise . If , for instance , we examine the address of Clytemnestra to Agamemnon on his return , or the description of the seven Argive chiefs ...
Considered as plays , his works are absurd : considered as choruses , they are above all praise . If , for instance , we examine the address of Clytemnestra to Agamemnon on his return , or the description of the seven Argive chiefs ...
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In the attempt to recon- cile things in their own nature inconsistent , he has failed , as every one must have failed . We cannot identify ourselves with the characters , as in a good play . We cannot identify ourselves with the poet ...
In the attempt to recon- cile things in their own nature inconsistent , he has failed , as every one must have failed . We cannot identify ourselves with the characters , as in a good play . We cannot identify ourselves with the poet ...
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