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 36
... interesting . The youth , the beauty , and the piety of Rosmunda excite our admiration , and engage our affections in the first moment of her appearance . The object of Falisco's enquiry gives birth to a new train of ideas without ...
... interesting . The youth , the beauty , and the piety of Rosmunda excite our admiration , and engage our affections in the first moment of her appearance . The object of Falisco's enquiry gives birth to a new train of ideas without ...
Pagina 37
... interesting by the barbarous conduct of the king . She faints , and while she seems sinking into the arms of death , the nurse exhorts Helmichild to avenge the death of his mistress and her father . The play concludes with the recovery ...
... interesting by the barbarous conduct of the king . She faints , and while she seems sinking into the arms of death , the nurse exhorts Helmichild to avenge the death of his mistress and her father . The play concludes with the recovery ...
Pagina 51
... interesting little tale . ( m ) Dissentions ( m ) This novel was first printed at Venice , in octavo , in 1535. Becoming almost as rare as a manuscript , it was re - printed , a few years since in Novelle otto rarissime , stampote a ...
... interesting little tale . ( m ) Dissentions ( m ) This novel was first printed at Venice , in octavo , in 1535. Becoming almost as rare as a manuscript , it was re - printed , a few years since in Novelle otto rarissime , stampote a ...
Pagina 52
... that Mr. Malone will not withold from the public , his elgant trans- lation of a tale so interesting , on many accounts , as La Giulietta of da Porto . Hatrio J. Hatrio to offer his daughter in marriage to the 52 HISTORICAL MEMOIR.
... that Mr. Malone will not withold from the public , his elgant trans- lation of a tale so interesting , on many accounts , as La Giulietta of da Porto . Hatrio J. Hatrio to offer his daughter in marriage to the 52 HISTORICAL MEMOIR.
Pagina 99
... interesting life of Tasso ; but what such biographers as Manso and Serassi ( r ) have related , who would tell again ? Therefore , referring my readers to the ( ) Vita di Torq . Tasso . Ven . 1761 , p . 288 . ( p ) Aminta , con le annot ...
... interesting life of Tasso ; but what such biographers as Manso and Serassi ( r ) have related , who would tell again ? Therefore , referring my readers to the ( ) Vita di Torq . Tasso . Ven . 1761 , p . 288 . ( p ) Aminta , con le annot ...
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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?