STAGE ILLUSION
A PLAY is said to ed in proportion to t, is not tion. t approaco it, old, is, ors. In tragedy -- in all ttention to age business, seems indispensable. Yet it is, in fact, dispensed tragedians; and or sentiment, are not too frequent or palpable, a sufficient quantity of illusion for tic interest may be said to be produced in spite of t, tragedy apart, it may be inquired tle extravagant, or to t is not a proof of t skill in t absolutely appealing to an audience, acit understanding o ty in tmost nicety is required in t artists in the profession.
t mortifying infirmity in ure, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in anoto see a coo tage mirt of us remember Jack Bannisters co? e loved ted but by te art of tor in a perpetual sub-insinuation to us, tators, even in tremity of t, t ook oms of teettering; and could ;t man all t it almost a secret to ourselves -- t
out by a tures -- meant at us, and not at all supposed to be visible to ed ure of a co ratist contrived to palm upon us instead of an original; ter pleasure, terfeiting of ty, ter self-desertion, s of cowardice in real life, could have given us?
eful in tage, but because tor, by a sort of sub-reference, rat appeal to us, disarms ter of a great deal of its odiousness, by seeming to engage our compassion for tenure by le vent efulness of ter -- t coils itself up from tes. tic; i.e. is no genuine miser. ing likeness is substituted for a very disagreeable reality.
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