 | Madame de Staël (Anne-Louise-Germaine) - 1813 - 422 pages
...would in vain be forewarned that a comic scene is designed to set off a tragic situation, — they would turn the first into ridicule without waiting...the pleasure which they demand from the fine arts. The difference between the French and the German theatre may be explained by reference to the national... | |
 | Anne Louise Germaine Staël-Holstein (baronne de.) - 1813 - 428 pages
...would in vain be forewarned that a comic scene is designed to set off a tragic situation, — they would turn the first into ridicule without waiting...the pleasure which they demand from the fine arts. The difference between the French and the German theatre may be explained by reference to the national... | |
 | Madame de Staël (Anne-Louise-Germaine) - 1814 - 438 pages
...would in vain be forewarned that a comic scene is designed to set off a tragic situation, — they would turn the first into ridicule without waiting...the pleasure which they demand from the fine arts. The difference between the French and the German theatre may be explained by reference to the national... | |
 | Madame de Staël (Anne-Louise-Germaine) - 1859 - 849 pages
...forewarned that a comic scene is deligned to set off a tragic situation,—they would turn the first mlo ridicule without waiting for the other; every detail...the pleasure which they demand from the fine arts. The difference between the French and the German theatre may be explained by reference to the national... | |
 | Madame de Staël (Anne-Louise-Germaine) - 1861 - 486 pages
...would in vain bo forewarned that a comic scene is designed to set off a tragic situation, — they would turn the first into ridicule without waiting...the pleasure which they demand from the fine arts. The difference between the French and the German theatre may be explained by reference to the national... | |
 | Albert Gehring - 1908 - 266 pages
...would in vain be forewarned that a comic scene is designed to set off a tragic situation, — they would turn the first into ridicule without waiting...strung together like the pearls of a necklace; the art- work of the future is a connected tissue, in which the music never ceases until the drop of the... | |
 | Albert Gehring - 1908 - 256 pages
...would in vain be forewarned that a comic scene is designed to set off a tragic situation, — they would turn the first into ridicule without waiting...strung together like the pearls of a necklace; the art- work of the future is a connected tissue, in which the music never ceases until the drop of the... | |
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... always by its general effect that they judge of a theatrical piece, and they wait till it is finished before they either condemn or applaud it. The impressions of the French are more ready ; and they would in vain be forewarned that a comic scene... 