Dramatic EssaysJ.M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1912 - 299 sivua |
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... imagination : when he writes the serious way , the highest flight of his fancy is some miserable antithesis , or seeming contradiction ; and in the comic he is still reaching at some thin conceit , the ghost of a jest , and that too ...
... imagination : when he writes the serious way , the highest flight of his fancy is some miserable antithesis , or seeming contradiction ; and in the comic he is still reaching at some thin conceit , the ghost of a jest , and that too ...
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... imagination more than the place itself can please our sight . When we see death represented , we are convinced it is but fiction ; but when we hear it related , our eyes , the strongest witnesses , are wanting , which might have ...
... imagination more than the place itself can please our sight . When we see death represented , we are convinced it is but fiction ; but when we hear it related , our eyes , the strongest witnesses , are wanting , which might have ...
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... imagination as well suffer itself to be deluded with the pro- bability of it , as with any other thing in the play ? For my part , I can with as great ease persuade myself that the blows are given in good earnest , as I can that they ...
... imagination as well suffer itself to be deluded with the pro- bability of it , as with any other thing in the play ? For my part , I can with as great ease persuade myself that the blows are given in good earnest , as I can that they ...
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... imagination , which may be observed in all their plays . How many beautiful accidents might naturally happen in two or three days , which cannot arrive with any probability in the compass of twenty - four hours ? There is time to be ...
... imagination , which may be observed in all their plays . How many beautiful accidents might naturally happen in two or three days , which cannot arrive with any probability in the compass of twenty - four hours ? There is time to be ...
Sivu 48
... canvas ; but shall that excuse the ill painture or designment of them ? Nay , rather ought they not be laboured with so much the more diligence and exactness , to help the imagination ? since the mind of man does 48 Dryden's Essays.
... canvas ; but shall that excuse the ill painture or designment of them ? Nay , rather ought they not be laboured with so much the more diligence and exactness , to help the imagination ? since the mind of man does 48 Dryden's Essays.
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