Historical Memoir on Italian Tragedy: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time : Illustrated with Specimens and Analyses of the Most Celebrated Tragedies and Interspersed with Occasional Observations on the Italian Theatres and Biographical Notices of the Principal Tragic Writers of ItalyE. Harding, 1799 - 338 pagini |
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Pagina 48
... ancient Roman poet , so effectually deceived the literati of his own and the suc- ceeding age , that the younger Aldus published it as a precious remnant of antiquity . Vide Elog . degli uomini illust , tosc . tom . ii . Life of Lorenz ...
... ancient Roman poet , so effectually deceived the literati of his own and the suc- ceeding age , that the younger Aldus published it as a precious remnant of antiquity . Vide Elog . degli uomini illust , tosc . tom . ii . Life of Lorenz ...
Pagina 50
... ancient city of Adria . He then proceeds to describe the present state of that once flou- rishing city . Che mando il nome a quell ' ingrato mare Ch'n guiderdone a lei tolse la vita : ( / ) and concludes with relating the manner in ...
... ancient city of Adria . He then proceeds to describe the present state of that once flou- rishing city . Che mando il nome a quell ' ingrato mare Ch'n guiderdone a lei tolse la vita : ( / ) and concludes with relating the manner in ...
Pagina 64
... ancient Roman theatre , preferring the semi - elyp- tic to the semi - circular form . This theatre stands upon an area of ninety two feet in depth , and eighty five feet in breadth . It is divided , like its model , into five parts ...
... ancient Roman theatre , preferring the semi - elyp- tic to the semi - circular form . This theatre stands upon an area of ninety two feet in depth , and eighty five feet in breadth . It is divided , like its model , into five parts ...
Pagina 65
... ancient theatres , whose scenes moved on axes or pins , occasionally presenting different frontispieces . scena ut versis discedat frontibus , " ( y ) says Virgil . The chord of the semi - elyptic of the theatre which we are describing ...
... ancient theatres , whose scenes moved on axes or pins , occasionally presenting different frontispieces . scena ut versis discedat frontibus , " ( y ) says Virgil . The chord of the semi - elyptic of the theatre which we are describing ...
Pagina 67
... ancient Rome , performed their scenic changes under the concealment of a curtain , which answered to the Roman siparium . ( c ) This appears , from the stage di- rections given in some old Italian comedies . In the first act of the ...
... ancient Rome , performed their scenic changes under the concealment of a curtain , which answered to the Roman siparium . ( c ) This appears , from the stage di- rections given in some old Italian comedies . In the first act of the ...
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Historical Memoir on Italian Tragedy: From the Earliest Period to the ... Joseph Cooper Walker Vizualizare completă - 1799 |
Historical Memoir on Italian Tragedy: From the Earliest Period to the ... Joseph Cooper Walker Vizualizare completă - 1799 |
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Pagina 58 - It was the lark, the herald of the morn, No nightingale : look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east : Night's candles are burnt out...
Pagina xviii - Bid him disband his legions, Restore the commonwealth to liberty, Submit his actions to the public censure, And stand the judgment of a Roman senate. Bid him do this, and Cato is his friend.
Pagina 332 - Oh, think what anxious moments pass between The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods! Oh, 'tis a dreadful interval of time, Fill'd up with horror all, and big with death...
Pagina 125 - His histories, being neither tragedies nor comedies, are not subject to any of their laws ; nothing more is necessary to all the praise which they expect, than that the changes of action be so prepared as to be understood, that the incidents be various and affecting, and the characters consistent, natural, and distinct. No other unity is intended, and therefore none is to be sought. In his other works he has well enough preserved the unity of action.
Pagina 205 - Here I observed certaine things that I never saw before. For I saw women acte, a thing that I never saw before, though I have heard that it hath beene sometimes used in London, and they performed it with as good a grace, action, gesture, and whatsoever convenient for a Player, as ever I saw any masculine Actor.
Pagina xli - Father, first they sung omnipotent, Immutable, immortal, infinite, Eternal King; thee, author of all being, Fountain of light, thyself invisible Amidst the glorious brightness where thou sitt'st Throned inaccessible, but when thou shad'st The full blaze of thy beams, and through a cloud Drawn round about thee like a radiant shrine, Dark with excessive bright thy skirts appear, Yet dazzle Heaven, that brightest Seraphim Approach not, but with both wings veil their eyes.
Pagina 63 - One of our late great poets is sunk in his reputation, because he could never forgive any conceit which came in his way; but swept like a drag-net, great and small.
Pagina xx - Pompey fought for Caesar, Oh ! my friends How is the toil of fate, the work of ages, The Roman empire fallen ! O curst ambition!
Pagina xviii - Cato, thou hast a daughter. CATO. Adieu, young Prince: I would not hear a word Should lessen thee in my esteem...
Pagina 241 - E ne sarà fors' anche scacciato, egli, il cui padre a ricca mensa tanta gente accogliea. Ma poi se infermo cade, com" è pur troppo agevol cosa, chi n'avrà cura?