Essays, Political, Historical, and Miscellaneous, Nide 3W. Blackwood, 1850 |
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... drama as the main cause of the present degraded condition of our national theatre , we have prefaced our observations with a defence of the romantic drama by its ablest advocate , and shall now state the reasons which appear to us to be ...
... drama as the main cause of the present degraded condition of our national theatre , we have prefaced our observations with a defence of the romantic drama by its ablest advocate , and shall now state the reasons which appear to us to be ...
Sivu 107
... work itself , and Macaulay's essay upon it , sufficiently proves what a vast addition genius may yet make to the labours of the German annalist . proves fatal to his success . Unity in the midst THE ROMANTIC DRAMA . 107.
... work itself , and Macaulay's essay upon it , sufficiently proves what a vast addition genius may yet make to the labours of the German annalist . proves fatal to his success . Unity in the midst THE ROMANTIC DRAMA . 107.
Sivu 108
... to which nothing in prose composition can be compared . Elevation of thought , fervour of language , powerful delineation of character , are its essential qualities . But all these would But all 108 THE ROMANTIC DRAMA .
... to which nothing in prose composition can be compared . Elevation of thought , fervour of language , powerful delineation of character , are its essential qualities . But all these would But all 108 THE ROMANTIC DRAMA .
Sivu 109
... drama . The Iliad not only relates exclusively the latter stages of the siege of Troy , but the whole period of its action is forty- eight days of its absorbing interest , ( the time from the storming of the Greek lines by Hector to his ...
... drama . The Iliad not only relates exclusively the latter stages of the siege of Troy , but the whole period of its action is forty- eight days of its absorbing interest , ( the time from the storming of the Greek lines by Hector to his ...
Sivu 110
... DRAMA is to epic poetry . As the former selects from the romance of history its most interesting and momentous events , and makes them the subject of brilliant description , of impas- sioned rhetoric , so the latter chooses from the ...
... DRAMA is to epic poetry . As the former selects from the romance of history its most interesting and momentous events , and makes them the subject of brilliant description , of impas- sioned rhetoric , so the latter chooses from the ...
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