Imaginary Conversations
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ISBN13: 9781459088030
Paperback|9781459088030
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ounces, which, knowing it to have been stolen, he bought at a cheap rate of a Jew on Ponte Vecchio, calculated that the least of impending evils was to purchase an additional bed just large enough for one. You ponder, Mr. Middleton; you appear astonished at- these visitations; you know my sincerity; you fully credif- me; I cannot doubt a moment of your conviction: I perceive it marked strongly on your countenance. Middleton. Indeed, M. Magliabechi, I now discover the validity of prayer to saints, and the danger of neglecting them: recommend me in yours to Saint Maria Bagnesi. VI. MILTON AND ANDREW MARVEL.f Milton. Friend Andrew, I am glad to hear that you amuse yourself in these bad times by the composition of a comedy, and that you have several plans in readiness for others. Now let me advise you to copy the better part of what the Greeks and Romans called the old, and to introduce songs and music, which, suitable as they are to tragedy, are more so tc the sister Muse. Furthermore, I could desire to see a piecemodelled in every part on the Athenian scheme, with the names and characters and manners of times past. For surely you would not add to the immorality of the age, by representing any thing of the present mode upon the theatre. Although we are more abundant in follies, which rather than vices are the ground-work of comedy, we experience less disgust in touching those of other times than of our own; and in a drama the most ancient would have the most novelty. I know that all the periods and all the nations of the world united, have less variety of character than we find in this one city; yet, as you write to amuse yourself and a few learned friends, I am persuaded you would gladly walk out of it for once, and sit down to delineate a Momus or a Satyr, with at...
| ISBN-13 | 9781459088030 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1459088034 |
| Weight | 0.95 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.66 In |
| List Price | $24.30 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 292 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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