On Renascence Drama: Or, History Made VisibleSands & McDougall, 1880 - 359 pages |
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... verse for drama . Not only ought the drama to be called a re- nascence of the higher Greek drama , but it also is to be further styled the drama of Protestantism , inculcating as it does tenets of true piety , scorn of cant , espionage ...
... verse for drama . Not only ought the drama to be called a re- nascence of the higher Greek drama , but it also is to be further styled the drama of Protestantism , inculcating as it does tenets of true piety , scorn of cant , espionage ...
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... first seem to be to seek the elements of dramatic verse lurk- ing latent in Baconian prose , there is yet nothing visionary in the research . On every page examples abound fit to be culled in illustration . The fall 16 RENASCENCE DRAMA.
... first seem to be to seek the elements of dramatic verse lurk- ing latent in Baconian prose , there is yet nothing visionary in the research . On every page examples abound fit to be culled in illustration . The fall 16 RENASCENCE DRAMA.
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... verse is only a kind of style , and has nothing to do with the matter . True history may be written in verse , and feigned history in prose . True poetry is feigned history . " That Bacon was an adept at the accomplished letter writer's ...
... verse is only a kind of style , and has nothing to do with the matter . True history may be written in verse , and feigned history in prose . True poetry is feigned history . " That Bacon was an adept at the accomplished letter writer's ...
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... verse by him who had , to Hallam's mind , " the poetic faculty in the highest degree " ? Facile indeed would the art ... verses . Shakespeare and the seers do not contain more vigorous or expressive condensations of thought , more ...
... verse by him who had , to Hallam's mind , " the poetic faculty in the highest degree " ? Facile indeed would the art ... verses . Shakespeare and the seers do not contain more vigorous or expressive condensations of thought , more ...
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... verses . " Equally so was he , who did not profess to be a poet , often enough reminded of his poetical conceits . He vowed to be ever a stranger to poets , and openly abjured them to evade the ill word of rivals who told the Queen that ...
... verses . " Equally so was he , who did not profess to be a poet , often enough reminded of his poetical conceits . He vowed to be ever a stranger to poets , and openly abjured them to evade the ill word of rivals who told the Queen that ...
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Page 121 - A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted Hast thou, the master-mistress of my passion; A woman's gentle heart, but not acquainted With shifting change, as is false women's fashion; An eye more bright than theirs, less false in rolling, Gilding the object whereupon it gazeth; A man in hue, all 'hues' in his controlling, Which steals men's eyes and women's souls amazeth.
Page 201 - Shakespeare, must enjoy a part. For though the poet's matter Nature be His art doth give the fashion. And that he Who casts to write a living line, must sweat (Such as thine are), and strike the second heat Upon the Muses...
Page 290 - And let me speak, to the yet unknowing world, How these things came about: So shall you hear Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts; Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters; Of deaths put on by cunning, and forc'd cause ; And, in this upshot, purposes mistook Fall'n on the inventors' heads: all this can I Truly deliver.
Page 17 - Have gloz'd, but superficially, not much Unlike young men, whom Aristotle thought Unfit to hear moral philosophy : The reasons you allege do more conduce To the hot passion of...
Page 205 - No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke...
Page 128 - We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years, or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished...
Page 89 - It is the curse of kings, to be attended By slaves, that take their humours for a warrant To break within the bloody house of life ; And, on the winking of authority, To understand a law ; to know the meaning Of dangerous majesty, when, perchance, it frowns More upon humour, than advis'd respect.
Page 5 - And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes like the warbling of music) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight, than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air.
Page 122 - Two loves I have of comfort and despair, Which like two spirits do suggest me still: The better angel is a man right fair, The worser spirit a woman colour'd ill. To win me soon to hell, my female evil Tempteth my better angel from my side, And would corrupt my saint to be a devil, Wooing his purity with her foul pride.
Page 289 - If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart, Absent thee from felicity awhile, And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain, To tell my story.