The Foreign quarterly review [ed. by J.G. Cochrane]., Volume 27John George Cochrane 1841 |
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... nature , which sought in the theatre the source of an easy and genial relaxation , and to which a long silent sitting of about six hours in a play - house , as our good customers of Covent Garden or the Hay - market have the constancy ...
... nature , which sought in the theatre the source of an easy and genial relaxation , and to which a long silent sitting of about six hours in a play - house , as our good customers of Covent Garden or the Hay - market have the constancy ...
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... nature into the fetters of classical rules , and carried them to a superstitious extreme ; he made himself a rigid observer of dramatic unity , rejected all accessory ornament , episodical incidents , and gave to the stage his drama ...
... nature into the fetters of classical rules , and carried them to a superstitious extreme ; he made himself a rigid observer of dramatic unity , rejected all accessory ornament , episodical incidents , and gave to the stage his drama ...
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... nature . It is , therefore , with a full expectation of a thorough failure that we venture to subjoin the following version of one of those rare passages ; and notwithstanding the freedom of our transla- tion and of the metre we have ...
... nature . It is , therefore , with a full expectation of a thorough failure that we venture to subjoin the following version of one of those rare passages ; and notwithstanding the freedom of our transla- tion and of the metre we have ...
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... Nature suggested plain construc- tions , art adopted elaborate invertions . All that is simple and natural the poet rejects as vulgar . The poet never calls things by their names . His style is opposed to common life ; as in the poems ...
... Nature suggested plain construc- tions , art adopted elaborate invertions . All that is simple and natural the poet rejects as vulgar . The poet never calls things by their names . His style is opposed to common life ; as in the poems ...
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... nature . This style into which the Italians have been led by their worship of the Greek stage , and by their long dealing in heroic subjects from Greece and Rome - where , on account of our im- perfect knowledge , we must be satisfied ...
... nature . This style into which the Italians have been led by their worship of the Greek stage , and by their long dealing in heroic subjects from Greece and Rome - where , on account of our im- perfect knowledge , we must be satisfied ...
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