 | Steven Blakemore - 1997 - 268 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" (175, my emphasis). Paine, in effect, ascribes to Burke the very thing Burke rejects: "that superficial... | |
 | John Barrell - 2000 - 860 páginas
...February the previous year, and perhaps also to Rousseau's Letter to D'Alembert, he continues: Some tears might be drawn from me, if such a spectacle were exhibited...truly ashamed of finding in myself that superficial, theatrick sense of painted distress, whilst I could exult over it in real life. With such a perverted... | |
 | Julia Swindells - 2001 - 234 páginas
...were exhibited on the srage. I should he truly ashamed of finding in myself thar superftcial, theattic sense of painted distress, whilst I could exult over...With such a perverted mind, I could never venture to shew my face at a tragedy. People would think the tears that Gartick formerly, or that Siddons nor... | |
 | Peter James Stanlis - 2015 - 350 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...could never venture to show my face at a tragedy. . . . Indeed the theatre is a better school of moral sentiments than churches, where the feelings of... | |
 | Luke Gibbons - 2003 - 326 páginas
...gross humiliations inflicted on Louis XVI by the stage managers of the French Revolution: Some tears might be drawn from me, if such a spectacle were exhibited...With such a perverted mind, I could never venture to shew my face at a tragedy. (Reflections, 175) It is sentiments such as these which prompt Frans De... | |
 | Hansjörg Bay, Kai Merten - 2006 - 674 páginas
...durchzusetzen und Licht und Schatten, unter Entwendung der Aufklärungsmetaphorik, neu „Some tears might be drawn from me, if such a spectacle were exhibited...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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 718 páginas
...pity; our weak, unthinking pridt- is humbled under the dispensations of a mysterious wisdom. Some tears might be drawn from me, if such a spectacle were exhibited...theatric sense of painted distress, whilst I could exult ever it in real life. With such a perverted mind, I could never venture to show my face at a tragedy.... | |
 | Michael Kramp - 2007 - 218 páginas
...compared the violent distress experienced by the French royals to a theatrical performance, and admitted, "I should be truly ashamed of finding in myself that...distress, whilst I could exult over it in real life" (132). Burke believed that we must express proper emotion within the appropriate context, and he was... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 2008 - 590 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...exult over it in real life. "With such a perverted miud, I could never venture to show my face at a tragedy. People would think the tears that Garrick... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 2008 - 590 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...exult over it in real life. "With such a perverted miud, I could never venture to show my face at a tragedy. People would think the tears that Garrick... | |
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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... 
