The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor
In proportion as the Romans yielded to the habit of imitating the Greeks, they advanced into refinement, and receded from their characteristic roughness and ferocity. Their pace, however, was very slow, for imagining rudeness and brutality to be synonimous with independence, t...
In proportion as the Romans yielded to the habit of imitating the Greeks, they advanced into refinement, and receded from their characteristic roughness and ferocity. Their pace...
3. Chapter 3_Countess._ So, this is grateful; this is graceful. Answer me. Who has maintained you? who has educated you? and from whom did you get these fine clothes and fine manners? From...
8. Chapter 8which is a projecting tablet, with an inscription nearly effaced. In the back, an ascending avenue through pine trees: in the centre a statue of Charlemagne; on the base of whic...
2. Chapter 2sulphur mine. In the back a sheet of water, with a lamp hanging over it; and cells with iron grating before them. At the right wing a large brazen door, at the left wing another...
5. Chapter 5_Chris._ Not here either!--no where to be met with! Bless my soul? now I am in the house, I might as well be out of it; for I can't find aunt or cousin; and the fine company her...
12. Chapter 12_Bern._ You hear! Soon the victorious foe will force our walls; for, can they long sustain the shock of such an host? Or if they could--for what? for whom? Are we agreed?
9. Chapter 9_Count._ How fortunate! how very fortunate! Whilst I was in pursuit of that low wretch, call'd Christopher, I call'd in at the marquis Alberti's, and heard the welcome news, tha...
4. Chapter 4_Ravens._ Today, to swear the dire terrific oath, "and on tomorrow be the nuptials solemnized." In all--in all--must Ravensburg be sacrificed?--He must--his father has committed...
10. Chapter 10_Ab._ They do. But he, this baron, you suspect may know the motive for your accusation? (_Agnes accords._) Oh that I knew! for I would court each, the most trifling circumstance...
6. Chapter 6_Ever._ This, this the far-fam'd court so long extolled for fair investigation? Poor Agnes Lindorf! unheard thou art condemned, prejudged, thy judges will decree thee guilty, an...
11. Chapter 11_Chris._ So, this is the place of meeting--from hence we were to start for Franconia--and not here! Ulrica not yet come! Mighty well! our marriage but an hour old, and keep her...
7. Chapter 7When the morning shines forth, and the zephyr's calm gale Carries fragrance and health over mountain and dale, Follow me, brother falconers, and share in those joys, Which envy...