Critical and miscellaneous essays, Volumen1Carey, 1852 |
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... play - bills , be withdrawn , to make room for the forthcoming novelties . We wish , however , to avail ourselves of the interest , tran- sient as it may be , which this work has excited . The dex- terous Capuchins never choose to ...
... play - bills , be withdrawn , to make room for the forthcoming novelties . We wish , however , to avail ourselves of the interest , tran- sient as it may be , which this work has excited . The dex- terous Capuchins never choose to ...
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... 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 . We often hear of the magical influence of poetry . The expression in ...
... 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 . We often hear of the magical influence of poetry . The expression in ...
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... 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 appear but his characters . As soon as he ...
... 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 appear but his characters . As soon as he ...
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... 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 , by the princi ...
... 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 , by the princi ...
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... play . We cannot identify ourselves with the poet , as in a good ode . The conflicting ingredients , like an acid and an alkali mixed , neutralize each other . We are by no means insensible to the merits of this celebrated piece , to ...
... play . We cannot identify ourselves with the poet , as in a good ode . The conflicting ingredients , like an acid and an alkali mixed , neutralize each other . We are by no means insensible to the merits of this celebrated piece , to ...
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