Selected English EssaysWilliam Peacock |
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... theatre . The English theatre reflected no more the aspiration of a great community for a fuller and richer sense of human existence . This theatre came afterwards , however , to reflect the aspirations of ' the town . ' It developed a ...
... theatre . The English theatre reflected no more the aspiration of a great community for a fuller and richer sense of human existence . This theatre came afterwards , however , to reflect the aspirations of ' the town . ' It developed a ...
Page 483
... theatre have the defect of leaving out too much of life , of treating the soul as if it lived at one point or group ... Theatre ? What is the consequence which it is right and rational for us to draw ? Surely it is this : " The theatre ...
... theatre have the defect of leaving out too much of life , of treating the soul as if it lived at one point or group ... Theatre ? What is the consequence which it is right and rational for us to draw ? Surely it is this : " The theatre ...
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... theatres should provoke discontent and attack . They were attacked , and their privilege fell . Still , to this essay , however imperfect , of a public organisation for the English theatre , our stage owes the days of power and ...
... theatres should provoke discontent and attack . They were attacked , and their privilege fell . Still , to this essay , however imperfect , of a public organisation for the English theatre , our stage owes the days of power and ...
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Abraham Newland admirable beautiful better called character Chioggia church colour Dante delight dinner drama Elena Elizabethan Era English face fancy feel fellow French Gaiety Theatre genius gentlemen Gerado give Goldsmith gondola grace Grand Canal hand head hear heart Hernani honour humour imagination Irenæus kind lady laugh learned live look Malamocco Malebranche matter Messer mind Molière morning murder nature never Nicolas Poussin night observed Oliver Goldsmith once painted passed passion perhaps person picture play pleasure poem poet poetry poor round Sarah Bernhardt seems sense Shakespeare Sicarii Sir Roger sleep sort soul speak spirit style sweet talk taste tell theatre things thought Tintoretto tion Toad-in-the-hole told town true truth turn Venice verse Victor Hugo walk whist whole wonder words write young
References to this book
Interpretatio: Language and Translation from Cicero to Tytler Frederick M. Rener No preview available - 1989 |
Interpretatio: Language and Translation from Cicero to Tytler Frederick M. Rener Limited preview - 1989 |