The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Volum 6Cadell and Company, 1834 |
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Pàgina 42
... audience who heard the theses of the Courts of Love attacked and supported in logical form , and with metaphysical subtlety . Should the manners of the times appear incon- sistent in these respects which we have noticed , we must ...
... audience who heard the theses of the Courts of Love attacked and supported in logical form , and with metaphysical subtlety . Should the manners of the times appear incon- sistent in these respects which we have noticed , we must ...
Pàgina 139
... or per- haps the history of some remarkable victory or sig- nal defeat , calculated to interest the audience by the associations which the ' song awakens . These poems , of which very few can now be supposed ESSAY ON ROMANCE . 139.
... or per- haps the history of some remarkable victory or sig- nal defeat , calculated to interest the audience by the associations which the ' song awakens . These poems , of which very few can now be supposed ESSAY ON ROMANCE . 139.
Pàgina 148
... audience , augments the meagre chronicle with his own apocryphal inventions . Skirmishes are ele- vated into great battles ; the champion of a remote age is exaggerated into a sort of demi - god ; and the enemies whom he encountered and ...
... audience , augments the meagre chronicle with his own apocryphal inventions . Skirmishes are ele- vated into great battles ; the champion of a remote age is exaggerated into a sort of demi - god ; and the enemies whom he encountered and ...
Pàgina 165
... audience , with which they were obliged to comply , under the true but melancholy condition , that " they who live to please must please to live . " But this very necessity , rendered more degrading by their increasing numbers and ...
... audience , with which they were obliged to comply , under the true but melancholy condition , that " they who live to please must please to live . " But this very necessity , rendered more degrading by their increasing numbers and ...
Pàgina 166
... audiences whom they addressed . It may be presumed , that , although the class of minstrels , like all who merely depend upon gratify- ing the public , carried in their very occupation the evils which first infected , and finally ...
... audiences whom they addressed . It may be presumed , that , although the class of minstrels , like all who merely depend upon gratify- ing the public , carried in their very occupation the evils which first infected , and finally ...
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Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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?
Pàgina 278 - But, besides these gross absurdities, how all their plays be neither right tragedies nor right comedies, mingling kings and clowns, not because the matter so carrieth it, but thrust in the clown by head and shoulders to play a part in majestical matters, with neither decency nor discretion; so as neither the admiration and commiseration, nor the right sportfulness, is by their mongrel tragi-comedy obtained.
Pàgina 359 - ... foul and indecent women now (and never till now) permitted to appear and act, who inflaming several young noblemen and gallants, became their misses, and to some, their wives. Witness the Earl of Oxford, Sir R. Howard...
Pàgina 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?
Pàgina 309 - It is false that any representation is mistaken for reality, that any dramatic fable in its materiality was ever credible, or, for a single moment, was ever credited.