The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Nide 6Cadell and Company, 1834 |
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Sivu 222
... Chorus , the dull monologue of the Thespian orator . It was Eschylus , also , who introduced the deceptions of scenery ; stationary , indeed , and therefore very different from the de- corations of our stage , but still giving a reality ...
... Chorus , the dull monologue of the Thespian orator . It was Eschylus , also , who introduced the deceptions of scenery ; stationary , indeed , and therefore very different from the de- corations of our stage , but still giving a reality ...
Sivu 223
... Chorus in a new character , which continued long to give a peculiar tone to the Grecian Drama , and still makes the broad and striking difference betwixt that original theatre , and those which have since arisen in modern nations . The ...
... Chorus in a new character , which continued long to give a peculiar tone to the Grecian Drama , and still makes the broad and striking difference betwixt that original theatre , and those which have since arisen in modern nations . The ...
Sivu 224
... Chorus , according to this new model , was composed of a certain set of persons , priests , cap- tive virgins , matrons , or others , usually of a solemn and sacred character , the contemporaries of the heroes who appeared on the stage ...
... Chorus , according to this new model , was composed of a certain set of persons , priests , cap- tive virgins , matrons , or others , usually of a solemn and sacred character , the contemporaries of the heroes who appeared on the stage ...
Sivu 225
... Chorus varied at different periods , often extending to fifty persons , and some- times restricted to half that number ; and it is evi- dent that the presence of so many persons on the scene officiating as no part of the dramatis ...
... Chorus varied at different periods , often extending to fifty persons , and some- times restricted to half that number ; and it is evi- dent that the presence of so many persons on the scene officiating as no part of the dramatis ...
Sivu 226
... Chorus , and the events which were passing upon the stage , was a most important improvement upon the earlier Drama . By this means , the two connected branches of the old Bacchanalian revels were com → bined together ; and we ought ...
... Chorus , and the events which were passing upon the stage , was a most important improvement upon the earlier Drama . By this means , the two connected branches of the old Bacchanalian revels were com → bined together ; and we ought ...
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Sivu 345 - Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts ; Into a thousand parts divide one man, And make imaginary puissance ; Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i' the receiving earth : — For 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings; Carry them here and there ; jumping o'er times, Turning the accomplishment of many years Into an hour-glass...
Sivu 345 - On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object: can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt?
Sivu 352 - I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played, but now the old plays began to disgust this refined age, since his Majesties being so long abroad.
Sivu 309 - Time is of all modes of existence most obsequious to the imagination; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours. In contemplation we easily contract the time of real actions and therefore willingly permit it to be contracted when we only see their imitation.
Sivu 363 - Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality; and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance. It becomes me not to draw my pen in the defence of a bad cause, when I have so often drawn it for a good one.
Sivu 363 - I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them.
Sivu 309 - It is false that any / representation is mistaken for reality ; that any dramatick fable in its materiality was ever credible, or, for a single moment, was ever credited.
Sivu 281 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Sivu 284 - Afric of the other, and so many other under-kingdoms, that the player, when he comes in, must ever begin with telling where he is, or else the tale will not be conceived?
Sivu 284 - ... then we are to blame if we accept it not for a rock. Upon the back of that comes out a hideous monster with fire and smoke, and then the miserable beholders are bound to take it for a cave. While in the meantime two armies fly in, represented with four swords and bucklers, and then what hard heart will not receive it for a pitched field?