Crayon Sketches, Volume 2Conner and Cooke, 1833 |
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Página 93
... audience are turned to the particular spot which they occupy . They are , in- deed , take them altogether , simply the most empty , impudent , noisy , impertinent , obtrusive set of var- lets that can be imagined , and are not ashamed ...
... audience are turned to the particular spot which they occupy . They are , in- deed , take them altogether , simply the most empty , impudent , noisy , impertinent , obtrusive set of var- lets that can be imagined , and are not ashamed ...
Página 97
... audience to do with his heart ? It is from his head that they expect entertainment , and if they are disappointed in that , what satisfaction to them , after the infliction of his slang and impertinence in the place of genuine wit and ...
... audience to do with his heart ? It is from his head that they expect entertainment , and if they are disappointed in that , what satisfaction to them , after the infliction of his slang and impertinence in the place of genuine wit and ...
Página 98
... audiences , and which they not only suffer , but chuckle over with evident satisfaction . But the old comedies have a bad character on this account , and we all know the force of the proverb " give a dog a bad name , " & c . There is ...
... audiences , and which they not only suffer , but chuckle over with evident satisfaction . But the old comedies have a bad character on this account , and we all know the force of the proverb " give a dog a bad name , " & c . There is ...
Página 112
... audience afford to any one who takes the trouble to observe his spe- cies ! What a field for the painter , the physiogno- mist , and the caricaturist ! What faces are to be seen - how rich and broad is their expression when those who ...
... audience afford to any one who takes the trouble to observe his spe- cies ! What a field for the painter , the physiogno- mist , and the caricaturist ! What faces are to be seen - how rich and broad is their expression when those who ...
Página 114
... gether with a running commentary on different parts of the audience , and their own private opinion on affairs in general - and all this miscellaneous gabble conveyed in that most abhorrent of all sounds , 114 AN EVENING AT THE THEATRE .
... gether with a running commentary on different parts of the audience , and their own private opinion on affairs in general - and all this miscellaneous gabble conveyed in that most abhorrent of all sounds , 114 AN EVENING AT THE THEATRE .
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Palavras e frases frequentes
actors actress admiration altogether amusing animation appear audience Barnes beauty become better birds Blackwood's Magazine Byron character Clara Fisher cold comedy conceit Creusa delicacy delightful drama Drury-lane effect equal face fair ladies fashion fish folly gentlemen give graceful habit half heart hero or heroine High Holborn Hilson human imitation infinite number IRVING crossed Kemble lady land laugh Liston Macbeth Madame Vestris manner Medea ment merit mind Miss Kelly morning mouth Natty Bumpo nature Newfoundland dog nose ocean Park theatre pass passion Pat O'Connor person physiognomy piece play pleasant pleasure poetry poor present pretty prospect racter ridiculous scene seems to pervade seen sensible Shakspeare shark song species spirit stage stands storm taste theatre thing thou tion Titus Dodds tragedy ture vivacious lady voice vulgar Washington Irving Wheatley word young
Passagens conhecidas
Página 223 - O Caledonia ! stern and wild, meet nurse for a poetic child, • land of brown heath and shaggy wood, land of the mountain and the flood, land of my sires!
Página 25 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes
Página 178 - I'd have you do it ever : when you sing, I'd have you buy and sell so ; so give alms ; Pray so ; and for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too. When you do dance, I wish you A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that ; move still, still so, and own No other function.
Página 106 - I have heard That guilty creatures, sitting at a play, Have by the very cunning of the scene Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions; For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.
Página 230 - And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with nature's tear-drops as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, - alas! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass...
Página 231 - The Summer dawn's reflected hue To purple changed Loch Katrine blue ; Mildly and soft the western breeze Just kissed the lake, just stirred the trees, And the pleased lake, like maiden coy, Trembled but dimpled not for joy...
Página 221 - Time rolls his ceaseless course. The race of yore, Who danced our infancy upon their knee, And told our marvelling boyhood legends store, Of their strange ventures happ'd by land or sea, How are they blotted from the things that be...
Página 17 - Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these ? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this ! Take physic, pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just.
Página 68 - ... the birds of the air, the beasts of the field, and the inhabitants of the water, that they might be borne to her wherever hid.
Página 129 - There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am arm'd so strong in honesty, That they pass by me as the idle wind, Which I respect not.