 | Voltaire - 1761 - Liczba stron: 330
...learn'd That man may tafte of perfect happinefs. In your Venice Preferv'd, old Renaut wants to debauck the wife of Jaffier ; fhe complains of it in terms...which are both of them too long : it fhou'd be a. paffion intirely tragical, confider'd as a weaknefs, and oppos'd r oppos'd by remorfe : it fhou'd either... | |
 | Voltaire - 1901 - Liczba stron: 614
...unbuttoned. To render love worthy of the tragic scene, it ought to arise naturally from the business of the piece, and not be brought in by mere force,...tragedies, and in ours, which are both of them too long: it should be a passion entirely tragical, considered as a weakness, and opposed by remorse ; it should... | |
 | Voltaire, Tobias Smollett - 1901 - Liczba stron: 328
...unbuttoned. To render love worthy of the tragic scene, it ought to arise naturally from the business of the piece, and not be brought in by mere force,...and in ours, which are both of them too long : it should be a passion entirely tragical, considered as a weakness, and opposed by remorse ; it should... | |
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To render love worthy of the tragic scene, it ought to arise naturally from the business of the piece, and not be brought in by mere force, only to fill up a vacancy, as it generally does in your tragedies, and in ours, which are both of them too long:... 