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" ... very defectious in the circumstances, which grieveth me, because it might not remain as an exact model of all tragedies. For it is faulty both in place and time, the two necessary companions of all corporal actions. "
Amenities of Literature: Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English ... - Page 164
by Isaac Disraeli - 1841
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An Examination of the Charges Maintained by Messrs. Malone, Chalmers, and ...

Octavius Gilchrist - 1808 - 74 pages
...hell, &c." And Sir Philip Sidney, in his " Defense of Poesie, 1589; when complaining of GorboduC* as " faulty both in place and time, the two necessary companions of all corporal actions;" adds, " but if it be so in Gorbodu^ how much more in all the rest ? where you shall have Asia of the...
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The Cabinet: Or, Monthly Report of Polite Literature, Volume 4

1808 - 546 pages
...hell, &c.' And Sir Philip Sidney, in his ' Defense of Poesie,* 1589; when complaining of Goibodue* as ' faulty both "in place and time, the two necessary companions of all corporal actions;' adds, ' but if it be so in Gorbodue, how much more in all the rest? where you shall have Asia of the...
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The London Magazine, Volume 4

1821 - 724 pages
...state his reasons, which in no degree detract from the character of the poetry : " For it is faidty, both in place and time, the two necessary companions of all corporal actions. For where the stage should always represent but one place, and the uttermost time pre-supposed in it...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 10

1824 - 378 pages
...circumstances ; which grieves me, because it might not remain as an exact model of all tragedies. For it is faulty both in place and time — the two necessary companions of all corporal actions. For where the stage should always represent but one place, and the uttermost time pre-supposed in it...
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Retrospective Review, Volume 10

Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1824 - 378 pages
...circumstances ; which grieves me, because it might not remain as an exact model of all tragedies. For it is faulty both in place and time — the two necessary companions of all corporal actions. For where the stage should always represent but one place, and the uttermost time pre-supposed in it...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 10

1824 - 378 pages
...circumstances ; which grieves me, because it might not remain as an exact model of all tragedies. For it is faulty both in place and time — the two necessary companions of all corporal actions. For where the stage should always represent but one place, and the uttermost time pre-supposed in it...
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The History of English Dramatic Poetry to the Time of Shakespeare ..., Volume 2

John Payne Collier - 1831 - 520 pages
...circumstances, which grieves me, because it might ' not remain as an exact model of all tragedies : for ' it is faulty both in place and time, the two necessary • companions of all corporal actions But if it be so in ' Gorboduc how much more in all the rest, where you ' shall have Asia of the one...
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Amenities of literature, sketches and characters of English literature, Volume 3

Isaac Disraeli - 1841 - 436 pages
...the first tragedy by a comparison with the more attractive and impassioned ones which soon afterwards inundated our theatres. The court-circle had never...defiance, by a swarm of dramatic bees, whose wild music and native sweetness were in their own humming and their own honey. This our first tragedy attracted...
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Amenities of Literature, Consisting of Sketches and Characters of ..., Volume 2

Isaac Disraeli - 1842 - 360 pages
...soon afterwards inundated our theatres. The court-circle had never before listened to such an amazing1 novelty, and the poetic critic of that day pronounced...defiance, by a swarm of dramatic bees, whose wild music and native sweetness were in their own humming and their own honey. This our first tragedy attracted...
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Amenities of Literature: Consisting of Sketches and Characters of ..., Volume 2

Isaac Disraeli - 1855 - 482 pages
...title-page, might only indicate his management of the pageants! and possibly, being a licenser of books and a puritan, even his name might be a recommendation of...has analyzed this drama in his History of English Poetryf vol. iv., 178, 8vo. It is in the collection of Dodsley and Hawkins. and native sweetness were...
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