 | Leigh Hunt - English literature - 1823 - 424 pages
...representation, would ha ve been ill calculated to rouse the feelings of the Romans, since they per• formed real tragedy in their circusses. 'The combats of the...Seneca's Medea, the chorus distinctly predicts the discovery of America, which took place 1,400 years after that drama was written. In the passage here... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1823 - 590 pages
...ill-calculated to rouse the feelings of the Romans, since they performed real tragedy in their circuses. The combats of the gladiators," said he, " the sight...tragedies suited to the iron nerves of the Romans." There are many scattered sayings which mark the man. Speaking of the elements of society, he said,... | |
 | 1823 - 592 pages
...Ill-calculated to rouse the feelings of the Romans, since they performed real tragedy in their circuses. The combats of the gladiators," said he, " the sight...the only tragedies suited to the iron nerves of the Uomans." There are many scattered sayings which mark the man. Speaking of the elements of society,... | |
 | English literature - 1823 - 816 pages
...rouse the feelings of the Romans, since they performed real tragedy in their circusses. " The combate of the gladiators," said he, " the sight of men consigned...tragedies suited to the iron nerves of the Romans." During his lucid intervals of health, the Emperor always continued to converse in his usual animated... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1823 - 590 pages
...combats of the gladiators," said he, " the sight of шеи consigned to the fury of wild beasts, were fur more terrible than all our dramatic horrors put together....tragedies suited to the iron nerves of the Romans." There are many scattered sayings which mark the man. Speaking of the elementa of society, he said,... | |
 | 1823 - 592 pages
...they performed real tragedy in Ihcir circuse.s. The combats of the gladiators," said he, " thesight of men consigned to the fury of wild beasts, were...dramatic horrors put together These, in fact, were tin; only tragedies suited to the iron nerves of the Romans." There are rrrany scattered sayings which... | |
 | English poetry - 1824 - 856 pages
...rouse the feelings of the Romans, since they performed real tragedy in their circuses. ' The comhats of the gladiators,' said he, 'the sight of men consigned...tragedies suited to the iron nerves of the Romans.' " There are many scattered sayings which mark the man. Speaking of the elements of society, he said,... | |
 | Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné comte de Las Cases - 1835 - 686 pages
...the impression that was likely to be produced on modern taste, by the Greek chorusses, Coryphaei, &c. He next turned to Voltaire's .^Edipus, on which he...Seneca's Medea, the chorus distinctly predicts the discovery of America, which took place 1,400 years after that drama was written. In the passage here... | |
 | Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné comte de Las Cases - 1835 - 686 pages
...produced on modern taste, by the Greek chorusses, Coryphaei, &c. He next turned to Voltaire's yEdipus, on which he bestowed high commendation. This piece,...Seneca's Medea, the chorus distinctly predicts the discovery of America, which took place 1,400 years after that drama was written. In the passage here... | |
 | Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné comte de Las Cases - 1855 - 452 pages
...calculated to rouse the feelings of the Romans, since they performed real tragedy in their circuses. " The combats of the gladiators, " said he, " the sight...possessed some dramatic essays, produced by Seneca. By the by, it is a curious fact, that in Seneca's Medea, the chorus distinctly predicts the discovery of America,... | |
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combats of the gladiators," said he, " the sight " of men consigned to the fury of wild beasts, " were far more terrible than all our dramatic " horrors put together. These, in fact, were the " only tragedies suited to the iron nerves of the " Romans."... 
