Lectures on Dramatic Literature: Or, The Employment of the Passions in DramaD. Appleton, 1849 - 245 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
Acanthe affection ancient Andromache anger Antigone antique Astyanax avenge beautiful become believe Cleanthe Collé comedy Dalainville daugh daughter death despair Desronais Don Diego Donna Lucretia drama Dupuis Edipus eighteenth century emotions endeavored Euphémon Euripides expression eyes fabliau Father Goriot fault fear feel genius Gennaro Geronte Goëthe grandeur Greeks grief Harpagon Hector hero honor human heart husband Idamé idea ingratitude inspires Ismene kill king King Lear Lear less literature live Lucrece Borgia Menedemus Merope Metromania miserable misfortunes modern Moliere Molossus moral mother nature Neoptolemus old Horace Orphan pardon passions paternal authority paternal character paternal love Philoctetes Piron pity poet Polynice Priam Prodigal Prodigal Son Pyrrhus Racine represented respect ridiculous Roman Rousseau scene sentiments Shakspeare society sons Sophocles soul speak stoicism suffering suicide Tchao Tching-Ing tears tenderness Theatre Theseus tragedy Triboulet Ulysses Victor Hugo virtue Voltaire Werter wish word young Zamti
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Página 141 - And my poor fool is hang'd ! No, no, no life ! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all?
Página 51 - Paul stood forth in the midst of them, and said, Sirs, ye should have hearkened unto me, and not have loosed from Crete, and to have gained this harm and loss. 22 And now I exhort you to be of good cheer: for there shall be no loss of any man's life among you, but of the ship.
Página 93 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Página 52 - For there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve, saying, Fear not, Paul ; thou must be brought before Caesar ; and, lo, God hath given thee all them that sail with thee.
Página 52 - And while the day was coming on, Paul besought them all to take meat, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye have tarried, and continued fasting, having taken nothing.
Página 52 - And when he had thus spoken, he took bread, and gave thanks to God in presence of them all; and when he had broken it, he began to eat.
Página 27 - Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin?
Página 134 - Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks ! rage ! blow ! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drench'd our steeples, drown'd the cocks ! You sulphurous and thought-executing fires, Vaunt-couriers of oak-cleaving thunderbolts, Singe my white head ! And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o...
Página 53 - God is our refuge and strength ; a very present help in trouble. Therefore will we not fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea ; Though the waters thereof roar aud be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof.
Página 134 - Spit, fire ! spout, rain ! Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire, are my daughters: I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness ; I never gave you kingdom, call'd you children, You owe me no subscription: then, let fall Your horrible pleasure; here I stand, your slave, A poor, infirm, weak, and...