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Updated: June 22, 2025
In a word, Religious Truth is not only a portion, but a condition of general knowledge. To blot it out is nothing short, if I may so speak, of unravelling the web of University Teaching. It is, according to the Greek proverb, to take the Spring from out of the year; it is to imitate the preposterous proceeding of those tragedians who represented a drama with the omission of its principal part.
To them the restrictions of time and space do not apply. They deal with large passions, and their heroes are gods or godlike men who are shattered against the rock of immutable law the "Fate" of the ancient tragedians.
It was some time before I could bring myself to call him Doctor; but, as he has been long known by that title, I shall give it to him in the rest of this Journal. BOSWELL. See ante, i. 488, note 3, and ii. 332, note I. In The Idler, No. viii, Johnson has the following fling at tragedians.
We shall then proceed to characterize, in the three tragedians of whom alone entire works still remain, the different styles that is, the necessary epochs in the history of the tragic art. Structure of the Stage among the Greeks Their Acting Use of Masks False comparison of Ancient Tragedy to the Opera Tragical Lyric Poetry.
Therefore it was a pleasant saying of that Spartan at Athens, who, when some new tragedians were to contend for the prize, seeing the preparations of the masters of the dances, the hurry and busy diligence of the instructors, said, the city was certainly mad which sported with so much pains.
It was not a ‘Royal Amphitheatre’ in those days, nor had Ducrow arisen to shed the light of classic taste and portable gas over the sawdust of the circus; but the whole character of the place was the same, the pieces were the same, the clown’s jokes were the same, the riding-masters were equally grand, the comic performers equally witty, the tragedians equally hoarse, and the ‘highly-trained chargers’ equally spirited.
As time went on, other poets were associated with Homer in the work of education, such as Hesiod and the Tragedians.
When the contract is signed she says: "By the bye, I forgot to tell you that I have been enceinte for four months; it will be five months before I am able to play." She does well. If I had done the same thing I shouldn't have to die like a dog on a litter of straw. Tragedians, you see, are comedians after all. That poor Dorval, what has become of her, do you know?
On all sides prose was full of life and growth; the complete literary perfection of the age of Cicero, Caesar, and Sallust might already be foreseen as within the grasp of the near future. Latin poetry, meanwhile, hung in the balance. The first great wave of the Greek impulse had exhausted itself in Ennius and the later tragedians.
The Italian tragedians were so sharp of wit, That in one hour of meditation They would perform anything in action. These Extemporal plays were witnessed much nearer than in Italy at the Theâtre des Italiens at Paris for one of the characters replies: I have seen the like, In Paris, among the French tragedians.
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