The Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Essays on chivalry, romance, and the dramaR.Cadell, 1834 |
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... 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 ...
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... 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.
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... 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 ...
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... 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 ...
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... 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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acted action actors adventures Æschylus affection amusement ancient appear Aristophanes Aristotle arms audience battle betwixt Brantome called champion character Charlemagne Chorus circumstances classical combat comedy comic composition Corneille court critical degree dialogue display Drama England English Eschylus Euripides exist extravagant favour female fiction France French Froissart genius Grecian hero honour horse imitation introduced King King Arthur knight knighthood lady lance language Lord manners metrical middle ages minstrels modern Molière moral nature noble origin pas d'armes passion peculiar pennon Perceforest performed period personages persons piece Plautus play plot poet poetry prince probably profession racter rank recited representation ridicule Romance romantic fiction rude rules Saint satire scene sentiment Shakspeare Skalds solemn Sophocles spectators spirit of Chivalry squire stage style supposed Susarion sword talent taste theatre theatrical Thespis tion tournament tragedy Tristrem unities valour youth
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Էջ 349 - 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...
Էջ 349 - 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 0, the very casques, That did affright the air at Agincourt...
Էջ 356 - 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.
Էջ 285 - 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.
Էջ 367 - 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.
Էջ 367 - 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.
Էջ 288 - Afric of the other, and so many other under-kingdoms, that the player, when he comes in, must ever begin with telling where he is, or else the tale will not be conceived?
Էջ 282 - 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.
Էջ 288 - Now ye shall have three ladies walk to gather flowers, and then we must believe the stage to be a garden. By and by we hear news of shipwreck in the same place, and 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?
Էջ 313 - 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.