 | Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 страници
...is only by a blind confidence in the reputation of Milton that a drama can he praised in which the intermediate parts have neither cause nor consequence, neither hasten nor retard the catastrophe. In this tragedy are, however, many particular beauties, many just sentiments and striking lines ; but... | |
 | H. Th Wolff - 1871 - 40 страници
...attacks our tragedy as deficient in both requisites of a true Aristotelic middle, as a work, in which the intermediate parts have neither cause nor consequence, neither hasten nor retard the catastrophe. The tragedy of Samson Agonistes, he says, has been celebrated as the second work of the great author... | |
 | Thomas Miller Maguire - 1880 - 140 страници
...move." " At last he rose, and twitched his mantle blue." SAMSON AGONISTES. 176. Explain :— " The intermediate parts have neither cause nor consequence, neither hasten nor retard the catastrophe." " Milton expresses in it, as in an allegory, the personal and political position, the retrospect and... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 728 страници
...says, " by a blind confidence in the reputation of Milton that a drama can be praised in which the intermediate parts have neither cause nor consequence, neither hasten nor retard the catastrophe." Such a drama is certainly not to be ranked with "Othello" and "Macbeth," or even with the "CEdipus"... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1892 - 180 страници
...is only by a blind confidence in the reputation of Milton, that a drama can be praised in which the intermediate parts have neither cause nor consequence, neither hasten nor retard the catastrophe. In this tragedy are however many particular beauties, many just sentiments and striking lines ; but... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1894 - 624 страници
...in name and intention has drawn largely from the Prometheus.* To it Dr. Johnson objected that 'the intermediate parts have neither cause nor consequence, neither hasten nor retard the catastrophe.' The criticism was shallow, where assuredly each episode — Manoa, Delila, Harapha—serves to heighten... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1894 - 196 страници
...is only by a blind confidence in the reputation of Milton, that a drama can be praised in which the intermediate parts have neither cause nor consequence, neither hasten nor retard the catastrophe. In this tragedy are however many particular beauties, many just sentiments and striking lines ; but... | |
 | Samuel Henry Butcher - 1895 - 418 страници
...been also urged against Milton's Samson Agonistes. It is a drama, says Dr. Johnson, ' in which the intermediate parts have neither cause nor consequence, neither hasten nor retard the catastrophe.' Here again, however, a somewhat similar criticism is • , applicable. The speeches of Samson form... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Wight Duff - 1900 - 318 страници
...is only by a blind confidence in the reputation of Milton that a drama can be praised in which the intermediate parts have neither cause nor consequence, neither hasten nor retard the catastrophe. In this tragedy are, however, jnany particular beauties, many just sentiments and striking lines ;... | |
 | Hans Meier - 1916 - 124 страници
...sollen die Hauptereignisse möglichst unterstützen. Im Samson Agonistes z. B. fehle a middle, the intermediate parts have neither cause nor consequence, neither hasten nor retard the catastrophe.51) Die Handlung soll ununterbrochen vorwärts schreiten, tote Szenen, which neither forward... | |
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English stages, and it is only by a blind confidence in the reputation of Milton that a drama can be praised in which the intermediate parts have neither cause nor consequence, neither hasten nor retard the catastrophe. 
