But this may be pardoned in those; for wealth would not he wealth, it would be really blind and imprisoned, unless it had witnesses, as tragedies would be devoid of spectators.
But this ought with the most care to be done in the reading of tragedies wherein probable and subtle speeches are made use of in the most foul and wicked actions.
In the eighteenth century Goldoni appeared and gave to the world his graceful comedies, which were followed by the lyric dramas of Metastasio and the lofty tragedies of Alfieri.
Select tragedies of Euripides (Phoenissae; Iphigenia in Aulis; Troades; Orestes) translated from the original Greek.
The Tragedies of Sophocles translated [in verse by R.
The tragedies of Aeschylus literally translated into English prose .
The seven tragedies of Aeschylus literally translated into English prose.
Tragedies of Sophocles in the Greek Theatre of Father Brumroy.
The tragedies of Aeschylus translated [into English verse, with notes] by R.
In the tragedies of the greatest dramatists the sweetness is so conspicuous a feature that it might almost be ranked as a third essential of tragedy, along with the awaking of pity and terror.
His remarks on the Oedipus tragedies of Sophokles are well worthy the attention of those who value the poetry above the letter of a work.
I will only observe that it is a truth tacitly acknowledged by all who compose tragedies or take pleasure in witnessing them.
Nevertheless it is certain that both of them produced both tragedies and comedies.
Nevertheless, as regards mere outward form, Kyd was the chief model for the great tragedies of Hamlet, Lear, &c.
As a murder-play it should be compared with Arden of Feversham, The Yorkshire Tragedy, and Two Tragedies in One.
The work was written with vigorous impulse and the author has left, in his autobiography, the remark that none of his tragedies cost him so little labour.
In comparing tragedies and comedies which he had seen performed in different countries, he gave repeated proofs of his knowledge and critical insight.
It is written in the eight-footed trochaic metre, similar to that in which the Spanish tragedies are written.
I fully agree with Alfieri that Italy must be united and enjoy a free popular government before one can expect to see tragedies well performed.
Tragedies are very seldom played; the language of Alfieri could never, I will not say be given with effect, but even conceived by the modern actors.
He is so far superior to Rosa Taddei in being five or six years older, in being a very good Latinist and hi improvising whole tragedies on any subject, chosen by the audience.
She cannot guess--she does not know this tragedy of my heart, greater and more poignant than all the tragedies of fiction.
Two other characters of the tragediesalready alluded to, demand from the justice of criticism the most full and unmixed praise.
Taking the structure of the tragedies of Æschylus for their model, these commenced the first great era of improvement in the comic drama.
He had endeavoured, but in vain, to bring several of his tragedies on the stage.
His tragedies are some of the most endurable we have in what a lively modern critic[4] has termed the rhetorical style.
In 1784, he published a volume of plays, consisting of tragedies and comedies, the latter of which were in rhyme.
In short, we both regard the publication of ourtragedies as an evil.
We shall offer the tragedies to no one, for we have determined to procure the money some other way.
Picturing to himself the overtaking and pulling down of the victim, he shivered, hardened though he was to the unending tragedies of the wilderness, and hurried along faster, although he knew he stood in no danger.
The youth cannot express the love, the passion and the tragediesof life as can the master.
Yes, there is such a rose-light in Paris, which makes all tragedies cheerful to the near spectator, so that his enjoyment of life is not spoilt there.
This piece was not so horrible as the earlier tragedies of the Republic and the Empire.
The tragediesare entitled Louis the Bavarian, and Duke Ernest of Suabia.
The fear of a mother toward the son she loves is among the deepest tragedies of earth.
The poets have made tragedies enough about signing one's self over to wickedness for the sake of getting something plummy; I shall write a tragedy of a fellow who signed himself over to be good, and was uncomfortable ever after.
Why then are there tragedies and grand operas, where men do difficult things and choose to suffer?
Least of all may we compare him to Racine, whose two great tragedies of Iphigenie and Athalie Voltaire himself declared to mark the nearest approach ever made to dramatic perfection.
Faguet says that of all French tragedies of the 16th and 17th centuries it is, with Athalie, the best constructed with regard to the requirements of the stage.
It could not stop to concern itself with the petty comedies and tragedies that were being enacted along its shores, else it would never have reached its destination.
In the tragedies of the afternoon, her rifle had been forgotten and left outside the mine, but the big cat back of her would never dare attack her if she kept steadily on, frightening it by loud shouting and trampling.
In the same chapter Aristotle properly places in the second rank of fable those tragedies which attempt the trite and puerile moral of punishing the bad and rewarding the good.
The ingenious Schlegel attributes to these tragedies symbolical interpretations, but to my judgment with signal ill-success.
Thus have I presented to the general reader the outline of all the tragedies of Sophocles.
The two volumes now published bring the reader, in the one branch of my subject, to the supreme administration of Pericles; in the other, to a critical analysis of the tragedies of Sophocles.
The "Philoctetes" has always been ranked by critics among the most elaborate and polished of the tragedies of Sophocles.
Neither have Corneille's tragedies been accepted as models by the world at large.
AEschylus wrote three tragedies on the subjects of his confinement, his release, and his worship at Athens.
Antigone forms the subject of two finetragedies of the Grecian poet Sophocles.
In arguing the superiority of Tragic to Epic Poetry, Aristotle says, there is less Unity in all Epic imitation; as appears from this--that any Epic Poem will furnish matter for several Tragedies .
He fetches his next Thought from Tyburn; and seems very apprehensive lest there should happen any Innovations in the Tragedies of his Friend Paul Lorrain.
If you read the Tragedies of the last Age, you find the artful Men and Persons of Intrigue, are advanced very far in Years, and beyond the Pleasures and Sallies of Youth; but now WILL.
This diverting Manner was always practised by Mr. Dryden, who if he was not the best Writer of Tragedies in his time, was allowed by every one to have the happiest Turn for a Prologue or an Epilogue.
Haym was also a man of letters, who published two quartos upon Medals, a notice of rare Italian Books, an edition of Tasso's Gerusalemme, and two tragedies of his own.
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