 | Edmund Burke - 1901 - 588 páginas
...; our weak, unthinking pride is humbled under the dispensations of a mysterious wisdom. Some tears might be drawn from me, if such a spectacle were exhibited on the stage. I should 1x5 truly ashamed of finding in myself that superficial, theatric sense of painted distress, whilst... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - 1905 - 492 páginas
...pity; our weak, unthinking pride is humbled under the dispensations of a mysterious wisdom. Some tears might be drawn from me if such a spectacle were exhibited...distress, whilst I could exult over it in real life. . . . No theatric audience in Athens would bear what has been borne, in the midst of the real tragedy... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1911 - 372 páginas
...pity; our weak, unthinking pride is humbled under the dispensations of a mysterious wisdom. Some tears might be drawn from me, if such a spectacle were exhibited...distress, whilst I could exult over it in real life." Hurd, in his Essay on the Provinces of the Drama, notices the reasons for the preference of exalted... | |
 | Charles Edwyn Vaughan - 1925 - 376 páginas
...leading 1 Letter to Memher of Nat. Asi. ip 482. in triumph of the King from Versailles to Paris) — were exhibited on the stage. I should be truly ashamed of finding in myself that superficial, theatrical sense of painted distress, whilst I could exult over it in real life. . . . Indeed the theatre... | |
 | Leopold Damrosch - 1989 - 276 páginas
...reiterates his claim from the Philosophical Enquiry that reality is more potent than art: "Some tears might be drawn from me if such a spectacle were exhibited...distress, whilst I could exult over it in real life" (Reflections 175). Burke's preoccupation with theatrical metaphors was by no means a product of a peculiarly... | |
 | Peter James Stanlis - 1958 - 292 páginas
...pity; our weak unthinking pride is humbled, under the dispensations of a mysterious wisdom. Some tears might be drawn from me, if such a spectacle were exhibited...distress, whilst I could exult over it in real life." When the natural feelings of humanity were outraged, Burke contended that the theatre provided a better... | |
 | Virginia Sapiro - 1992 - 394 páginas
...pity."46 He compared the potential reaction to these scenes in the theater and in real life. "Some tears might be drawn from me, if such a spectacle were exhibited...distress, whilst I could exult over it in real life" (94). Again he portrayed the admirers of the French Revolution as unnatural, more moved by false sentiments... | |
 | Andrew Ashfield, Peter de Bolla - 1996 - 332 páginas
...our weak unthinking pride is humbled, under the dispensations of a mysterious wisdom. - Some tears might be drawn from me, if such a spectacle were exhibited...venture to show my face at a tragedy. People would think the'tears that Garrick formerly, or that Siddons not long since, have extorted from me, were the tears... | |
 | Geraldine Friedman - 1996 - 300 páginas
...particularly pointed form: Some tears might be drawn from me, if such a spectacle [the French Revolution] were exhibited on the stage. I should be truly ashamed...With such a perverted mind, I could never venture to shew my face at a tragedy. People would think the tears that Garrick formerly, or that Siddons not... | |
 | Steven Blakemore - 1997 - 284 páginas
...over the dramatic enactment of "such a spectacle" on stage, while exulting over it "in real life": "I should be truly ashamed of finding in myself that...distress, whilst I could exult over it in real life" (Reflections, 175, my emphasis). Paine, in effect, ascribes to Burke the very thing Burke rejects:... | |
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We are alarmed into reflection ; our minds (as it has long since been observed) are purified by terror and pity; our weak unthinking pride is humbled, under the dispensations of a mysterious wisdom. Some tears might be drawn from me, if such a spectacle... 
