Memoirs of Mrs. Siddons, Interspersed With Anecdotes of Authors And Actors
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Distance from the subject, he says, is necessary to derive the proper enjoyment from the drama. This position he thus illustrates : — ' What odours the Arabian coasts dispense ! Which, breath'd too near, o'erpower and pall the sense ; But if at sea the breeze their sweets exhale, Vigour and life ride on the perfum'd gale.' The introduction of the trochee, in the first and third feet of the last line, give indeed expressive vigour and life to the poetical figure, which suggests its mighty origin...al, Milton :— ' Saba;an odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the blest ; and, many a league, Cheer'd with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles.' The author of the play seems rather to have rejected the peculiar marvellous of the romance than the marvellous altogether ; for the address of the Countess to her husband seems to imply events of a nature equally surprising. He destroys their son by a Barbary horse instead of a gigantic helmet; but the language of Hortensia points more im- mediately to the latter species of interference : — MRS.
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