The Whole Critical Works of Monsieur Rapin ...: Newly Done Into English by Several Hands, Volumen2H. Bonwicke, 1706 |
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Página 217 - XXV Comedy is an image of common life; its end is to show on the stage the faults of particulars in order to amend the faults of the public, and to correct the people through a fear of being rendered ridiculous.
Página 136 - Platform of the Laws they gave to Mankind ; the ^Founders of Monarchies and Common-wealths, from hence took the Model of their Polities. Hence the Philofophers found the firft Principles of Morality, which they have taught the People.
Página 120 - Scaliger, and before him Macrobius, Agellius, and the other Criticks have compared the Poets, and examin'd their worth) none has been more generally, and more happily handled, and in none have the Noblest wits both ancient and modern more contended with each other for victory, than in the description of the night.
Página 54 - See, I have this day fet thee over *' the nations, and over the kingdoms, to root out, " and to pull down, and to deftroy, and to throw *' down, to build, and to plant.
Página 217 - It is merely a gift of nature to make everything ridiculous. For all the actions of human life have their fair and their wrong side, their serious and their ridiculous. But Aristotle, who gives precepts to make men weep, leaves none to make them laugh. This proceeds purely from the genius; art and method have little to do with it; it is the work of nature alone.
Página 209 - I am not hardy enough to declare myself against the public; it is to degrade tragedy from that majesty which is proper to it to mingle in it love, which is of a character always light, and little suitable to that gravity of which tragedy makes profession.
Página 142 - ... on the theatre a queen so unhappy as Hecuba deploring with that pathetic air her misfortunes in Euripides. Comedy, which is an image of common conversation, corrects the public vices by letting us see how ridiculous...
Página 143 - I, xii: Aristotle drew the Platform of these Rules from the Poems of Homer, and other Poets of his Time, by the Reflections he had a long time made on their Works.
Página 113 - Countrey that is nothing akin to him, 'tis Lombardy that reaps the honour of all. Other Poets chose some Action or Heroe so illustrious, that the name of the Poem prepared the Reader, and made way for its reception: but in this Poem none can divine, what great action he intended to celebrate; nor is the Reader obliged to know whether the Heroe be Turk or Christian. Nor do the first lines give any light or prospect into his design.
Página 218 - ... that fine raillery which is the flower of wit, is the talent which comedy demands. But it must always be observed that the true ridiculous of art, for the entertainment on the theatre, ought to be no other but the copy of the ridiculous that is found in nature. Comedy is as it should be when the spectator believes himself...