The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Volum 6R. Cadell, 1834 |
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Pàgina 143
... stage direction usually informs us , " to a confused mu- sic , " bore to the masque itself , where all was dig- nified , noble , stately , and harmonious . An excellent example of the Comic Romance is the Tournament of Tottenham ...
... stage direction usually informs us , " to a confused mu- sic , " bore to the masque itself , where all was dig- nified , noble , stately , and harmonious . An excellent example of the Comic Romance is the Tournament of Tottenham ...
Pàgina 147
... stage of society , were neither so numerous nor of such high repute as to constitute any considerable portion of that literature . Want of space also may entitle us to dismiss the consideration of the Oriental Romances , unless in so ...
... stage of society , were neither so numerous nor of such high repute as to constitute any considerable portion of that literature . Want of space also may entitle us to dismiss the consideration of the Oriental Romances , unless in so ...
Pàgina 165
... stage , sought an apology in the corrupted taste and manners of their 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 ...
... stage , sought an apology in the corrupted taste and manners of their 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 ...
Pàgina 166
... stage , rise to the highest order , should , in a special degree , attain the regard and affection of the powerful , acquire wealth , and rise to consideration ; for , in such professions , very high prizes are assigned only to ...
... stage , rise to the highest order , should , in a special degree , attain the regard and affection of the powerful , acquire wealth , and rise to consideration ; for , in such professions , very high prizes are assigned only to ...
Pàgina 185
... stage of society , and by authors whose language was much more copious , and who certainly belonged to a more educated class than the ancient minstrels . Men were no longer satisfied with hearing of hard battles and direful wounds ...
... stage of society , and by authors whose language was much more copious , and who certainly belonged to a more educated class than the ancient minstrels . Men were no longer satisfied with hearing of hard battles and direful wounds ...
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Pàgina 343 - 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 343 - 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 350 - 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 279 - 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 307 - 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 361 - 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.
Pàgina 282 - For ordinary it is that two young princes fall in love; after many traverses she is got with child, delivered of a fair boy, he is lost, groweth a man, falleth in love, and is ready to get another child, — and all this in two hours...
Pàgina 276 - 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 307 - 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.
Pàgina 54 - Call you that desperate, which, by a line Of institution, from our ancestors Hath been derived down to us, and received In a succession for the noblest way Of breeding up our youth, in letters, arms, Fair mien, discourses, civil exercise, And all the blazon of a gentleman...