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 10
... fable , he adds , is divided into fifteen or twenty acts , with " una rarità d ' esem- pio maravigliosa . " But the author of the Parnaso Espan- olo would expunge this piece from the list of Italian trage- dies , contemptuously ...
... fable , he adds , is divided into fifteen or twenty acts , with " una rarità d ' esem- pio maravigliosa . " But the author of the Parnaso Espan- olo would expunge this piece from the list of Italian trage- dies , contemptuously ...
Pagina 12
... fable and all the incidents of Boccaccio's novel ( e ) are closely followed ; but the scene is shifted from Salerno to Thebes , and Greek names are given to the dramatis personæ . The author , who seems to have had some regard to the ...
... fable and all the incidents of Boccaccio's novel ( e ) are closely followed ; but the scene is shifted from Salerno to Thebes , and Greek names are given to the dramatis personæ . The author , who seems to have had some regard to the ...
Pagina 36
... fable of the former ; but the fable of the latter is borrowed from the Iphigenia in Tauris of Euripides . On the Rosmunda I shall here dilate a little , not only because ( though often printed ) it is of rare occurrence ; but because it ...
... fable of the former ; but the fable of the latter is borrowed from the Iphigenia in Tauris of Euripides . On the Rosmunda I shall here dilate a little , not only because ( though often printed ) it is of rare occurrence ; but because it ...
Pagina 50
... fable is drawn from the annals of their native country , and the scene laid in the 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 ...
... fable is drawn from the annals of their native country , and the scene laid in the 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 ...
Pagina 51
... fable bears a close affinity to that of Shakspear's Romeo and Juliet ; and that if Groto be not indebted to La Guilietta of Luigi da Porto for his subject , he frequently borrows both thoughts and incidents from that interesting little ...
... fable bears a close affinity to that of Shakspear's Romeo and Juliet ; and that if Groto be not indebted to La Guilietta of Luigi da Porto for his subject , he frequently borrows both thoughts and incidents from that interesting little ...
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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?