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 vi
... readers . This induced me to extend my purposed bounds , and , by the introduction of biographical notices of dramatic ... reader will find I have not been totally regardless of his amusement or information . Had I been more prodigal of ...
... readers . This induced me to extend my purposed bounds , and , by the introduction of biographical notices of dramatic ... reader will find I have not been totally regardless of his amusement or information . Had I been more prodigal of ...
Pagina vii
... reader shall have pe- rused the translation , by the same hand , of the choruses from the Acri- panda and Alcina , and of a few passages from other Italian dramas in- terspersed through these pages , he will , I am sure , regret that my ...
... reader shall have pe- rused the translation , by the same hand , of the choruses from the Acri- panda and Alcina , and of a few passages from other Italian dramas in- terspersed through these pages , he will , I am sure , regret that my ...
Pagina 12
... reader an idea of the author's style and manner . seems to have been ignorant of the subject ; for he asserts , that Girolamo Razzi was the first " a trattarlo tragicamente , " in his Gismonda , which did not appear till 1569 . ( e ) ...
... reader an idea of the author's style and manner . seems to have been ignorant of the subject ; for he asserts , that Girolamo Razzi was the first " a trattarlo tragicamente , " in his Gismonda , which did not appear till 1569 . ( e ) ...
Pagina 17
... reader shall have an opportunity of de- ( b ) Stor . de teat . tom . iii . p . 106. Jacope Castellini , a contemporary of Trissino , has also made Carthage the scene of a tragedy . But his Asdrubale is infinitely inferior to the ...
... reader shall have an opportunity of de- ( b ) Stor . de teat . tom . iii . p . 106. Jacope Castellini , a contemporary of Trissino , has also made Carthage the scene of a tragedy . But his Asdrubale is infinitely inferior to the ...
Pagina 18
... reader whose tears would not be " taught to flow " on perusing this passage , must , indeed , have an heart " indurito da ' pregiudizj . " As a further specimen of this celebrated tra- gedy , I shall transcribe a beautiful ode to love ...
... reader whose tears would not be " taught to flow " on perusing this passage , must , indeed , have an heart " indurito da ' pregiudizj . " As a further specimen of this celebrated tra- gedy , I shall transcribe a beautiful ode to love ...
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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?