The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Band 33R. Griffiths, 1765 |
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... Music , & c . 8vo . IS . Nicoll . Attacks the political writers , in a strain of irony , not unlike that of the great Swift ; nor much , if at all , inferior to the spirit and energy of that admired writer . The main drift of the Author ...
... Music , & c . 8vo . IS . Nicoll . Attacks the political writers , in a strain of irony , not unlike that of the great Swift ; nor much , if at all , inferior to the spirit and energy of that admired writer . The main drift of the Author ...
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... music at all ; at least they can have little or no merit on the ، have chosen old English stage ; where every thing ought to and character . ' be supported by a degree it muft of action It is really in the book , and weave well the ...
... music at all ; at least they can have little or no merit on the ، have chosen old English stage ; where every thing ought to and character . ' be supported by a degree it muft of action It is really in the book , and weave well the ...
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... music at all ! To think of refuting fuch a declaration as this , would be almost as absurd as the declaration : itself.There is such a piece as THE BEGGAR'S OPERA : turn to that justly admired † performance , Mr. B. then turn to thy own ...
... music at all ! To think of refuting fuch a declaration as this , would be almost as absurd as the declaration : itself.There is such a piece as THE BEGGAR'S OPERA : turn to that justly admired † performance , Mr. B. then turn to thy own ...
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... music over the mind , he observes , is perhaps greater than that of any of the fine arts ; and yet the effects produced by it are inconfiderable . This , we are told , is en- tirely owing to its being in the hands of practical Musicians ...
... music over the mind , he observes , is perhaps greater than that of any of the fine arts ; and yet the effects produced by it are inconfiderable . This , we are told , is en- tirely owing to its being in the hands of practical Musicians ...
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... music being the fame in all countries . - Harmony confifts in the agreeable effect of founds differing in acuteness produced together , the general principles of it are likewife fixed . < One end of music is to communicate pleasure ...
... music being the fame in all countries . - Harmony confifts in the agreeable effect of founds differing in acuteness produced together , the general principles of it are likewife fixed . < One end of music is to communicate pleasure ...
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Seite 286 - To bring a lover, a lady, and a rival into the fable; to entangle them in...
Seite 287 - It is objected that by this change of scenes the passions are interrupted in their progression, and that the principal event, being not advanced by a due gradation of preparatory incidents, wants at last the power to move which constitutes the perfection of dramatic poetry.
Seite 287 - A quibble is the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight that he was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world and was content to lose it.
Seite 377 - He has scenes of undoubted and perpetual excellence, but perhaps not one play, which, if it were now exhibited as the work of a contemporary writer, would be heard to the conclusion.
Seite 218 - Never was any of her sex born with better gifts of the mind, or who more improved them by reading and conversation. Yet her memory was not of the best, and was impaired in the latter years of her life. But I cannot call to mind that I ever once heard her make a wrong judgment of persons, books, or affairs. Her advice was always the best, and with the greatest freedom, mixed with the greatest decency. She had a gracefulness, somewhat more than human, in every motion, word, and action.
Seite 287 - Shakespeare, that his drama is the mirror of life; that he who has mazed his imagination, in following the phantoms which other writers raise up before him, may here be cured of his delirious ecstasies, by reading human sentiments in human language; by scenes from which a hermit may estimate the transactions of the world, and a confessor predict the progress of the passions.
Seite 286 - But love is only one of many passions, and as it has no great influence upon the sum of life, it has little operation in the dramas of a poet, who caught his ideas from the living world, and exhibited only what he saw before him. He knew, that any other passion, as it was regular or exorbitant, was a cause of happiness or calamity.
Seite 285 - Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirrour of manners and of life. His characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised by the rest of the world; by the peculiarities of studies or professions, which can operate but upon small numbers; or by the accidents of transient fashions or temporary opinions: they...
Seite 289 - He has not, indeed, an intrigue regularly perplexed and regularly unravelled ; he does not endeavour to hide his design only to discover it, for this is seldom the order of real events, and Shakespeare...
Seite 288 - ... how much his stores of knowledge could supply, he seldom escapes without the pity or resentment of his reader.