The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, a New Ed., with Notes, Volumen3T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1811 |
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... tragedy ? Music is certainly a very agreeable enter- tainment , but if it would take the entire possession of our ears , if it would make us incapable of hearing sense , if it would exclude arts that have a much greater ten- dency to ...
... tragedy ? Music is certainly a very agreeable enter- tainment , but if it would take the entire possession of our ears , if it would make us incapable of hearing sense , if it would exclude arts that have a much greater ten- dency to ...
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... tragedy , to com- plain that the actors all of them speak in a tone ; and therefore he very wisely prefers his own countrymen , not considering that a foreigner complains of the same tone in an English actor . For this reason , the ...
... tragedy , to com- plain that the actors all of them speak in a tone ; and therefore he very wisely prefers his own countrymen , not considering that a foreigner complains of the same tone in an English actor . For this reason , the ...
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... tragedy is the noblest production of human nature , so it is capable of giving the mind one of the most delightful and most improving entertainments . " A virtuous man ( says Seneca ) struggling with mis- fortunes , is such a spectacle ...
... tragedy is the noblest production of human nature , so it is capable of giving the mind one of the most delightful and most improving entertainments . " A virtuous man ( says Seneca ) struggling with mis- fortunes , is such a spectacle ...
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... tragedy . I am therefore very much offended when I see a play in rhyme ; which is as absurd in English , as a tragedy of Hexameters would have been in Greek or Latin . The solecism is , I think , still greater in those plays that have ...
... tragedy . I am therefore very much offended when I see a play in rhyme ; which is as absurd in English , as a tragedy of Hexameters would have been in Greek or Latin . The solecism is , I think , still greater in those plays that have ...
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... tragedy . I must in the next place observe , that when our thoughts are great and just , they are often obscured by the sounding phrases , hard metaphors , and forced ex- pressions in which they are cloathed . Shakespear is often very ...
... tragedy . I must in the next place observe , that when our thoughts are great and just , they are often obscured by the sounding phrases , hard metaphors , and forced ex- pressions in which they are cloathed . Shakespear is often very ...
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