Essays on Chivalry, Romance, and the DramaR. Cadell, 1834 - 395 páginas |
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... audience who heard the theses of the Courts of Love attacked and supported in logical form , and with metaphysical subtlety . Should the manners of the times appear incon- sistent in these respects which we have noticed , we must ...
... audience who heard the theses of the Courts of Love attacked and supported in logical form , and with metaphysical subtlety . Should the manners of the times appear incon- sistent in these respects which we have noticed , we must ...
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... or per- haps the history of some remarkable victory or sig- nal defeat , calculated to interest the audience by the associations which the song awakens . These poems , of which very few can now be supposed ESSAY ON ROMANCE . 139.
... or per- haps the history of some remarkable victory or sig- nal defeat , calculated to interest the audience by the associations which the song awakens . These poems , of which very few can now be supposed ESSAY ON ROMANCE . 139.
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... audience , augments the meagre chronicle with his own apocryphal inventions . Skirmishes are ele- vated into great battles ; the champion of a remote age is exaggerated into a sort of demi - god ; and the enemies whom he encountered and ...
... audience , augments the meagre chronicle with his own apocryphal inventions . Skirmishes are ele- vated into great battles ; the champion of a remote age is exaggerated into a sort of demi - god ; and the enemies whom he encountered and ...
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... audience , with which they were obliged to comply , under the true but melancholy condition , that " they who live to please must please to live . " 1 But this very necessity , rendered more degrading by their increasing numbers and ...
... audience , with which they were obliged to comply , under the true but melancholy condition , that " they who live to please must please to live . " 1 But this very necessity , rendered more degrading by their increasing numbers and ...
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... audiences whom they addressed . It may be presumed , that , although the class of minstrels , like all who merely depend upon gratify- ing the public , carried in their very occupation the evils which first infected , and finally ...
... audiences whom they addressed . It may be presumed , that , although the class of minstrels , like all who merely depend upon gratify- ing the public , carried in their very occupation the evils which first infected , and finally ...
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Página 341 - On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object; can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt?
Página 348 - I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played, but now the old plays began to disgust this refined age, since his Majesties being so long abroad.
Página 277 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Página 341 - Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts: Into a thousand parts divide one man, And make imaginary puissance; Think when we talk of horses that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i...
Página 305 - Time is of all modes of existence most obsequious to the imagination; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours. In contemplation we easily contract the time of real actions and therefore willingly permit it to be contracted when we only see their imitation.
Página 359 - I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph ; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.
Página 359 - I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them.
Página 280 - Now ye shall have three ladies walk to gather flowers, and then we must believe the stage to be a garden. By and by we hear news of shipwreck in the same place, and then we are to blame if we accept it not for a rock. Upon the back of that comes out a hideous monster, with fire and smoke, and then the miserable beholders are bound to take it for a cave. While in the meantime two armies fly in, represented with four swords and bucklers, and then what hard heart will not receive it for a pitched field?
Página 280 - Afric of the other, and so many other under-kingdoms, that the player, when he comes in, must ever begin with telling where he is, or else the tale will not be conceived?
Página 50 - Call you that desperate, which, by a line Of institution, from our ancestors Hath been derived down to us, and received In a succession for the noblest way Of breeding up our youth, in letters, arms, Fair mien, discourses, civil exercise, And all the blazon of a gentleman ? Where can he learn to vault, to ride, to fence, To move his body...