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 32
... bard taking the hint , printed the re- maining eighteen books in Venice in 1548 , and sent a copy by his son Ciro to the bishop of Trent , to be presented to the Emperor , by whom it was graciously received . On the com- pletion of this ...
... bard taking the hint , printed the re- maining eighteen books in Venice in 1548 , and sent a copy by his son Ciro to the bishop of Trent , to be presented to the Emperor , by whom it was graciously received . On the com- pletion of this ...
Pagina 39
... of a bard singing in the royal presence , the praises of conflicting heroes , the imagination takes wing , and carries us back to " other times . " Or . SECT . I. Or , giunto al fin della superba ON ITALIAN TRAGEDY . 39.
... of a bard singing in the royal presence , the praises of conflicting heroes , the imagination takes wing , and carries us back to " other times . " Or . SECT . I. Or , giunto al fin della superba ON ITALIAN TRAGEDY . 39.
Pagina 40
... bard Obey'd , and chose the monarch's favourite theme , The death of warlike Cunimundus , slain In battle by Albinus ' wrathful hand . The dire narration drew a flood of tears From the bright eyes of lovely Rosamond , Which , glistening ...
... bard Obey'd , and chose the monarch's favourite theme , The death of warlike Cunimundus , slain In battle by Albinus ' wrathful hand . The dire narration drew a flood of tears From the bright eyes of lovely Rosamond , Which , glistening ...
Pagina 45
... bard was not heard with indifference by his friend . It reflects honor on the memory of those amiable poets , that though they pursued together the same road to fame , their friendship was never interrupted by the rancour of jealousy ...
... bard was not heard with indifference by his friend . It reflects honor on the memory of those amiable poets , that though they pursued together the same road to fame , their friendship was never interrupted by the rancour of jealousy ...
Pagina 56
... bard read , with profit , the drama under consideration . It is , I know , generally supposed , that Shakspeare was igno- rant of the Italian language , though his works seem to afford strong internal evidence of his intimate ...
... bard read , with profit , the drama under consideration . It is , I know , generally supposed , that Shakspeare was igno- rant of the Italian language , though his works seem to afford strong internal evidence of his intimate ...
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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?