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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Página 242 - 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 27 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions : I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Página 190 - 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 235 - 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! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand!
Página 108 - 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 243 - The mountain shadows on her breast Were neither broken nor at rest ; In bright uncertainty they lie, Like future joys to Fancy's eye.
Página 233 - 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 70 - ... 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 15 - OFT in the stilly night, Ere Slumber's chain has bound me, Fond Memory brings the light Of other days around me; The smiles, the tears, Of boyhood's years, The words of love then spoken; The eyes that shone, Now dimmed and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken ! Thus, in the stilly night, Ere Slumber's chain has bound me, Sad Memory brings the light Of other days around me.
Página 141 - 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.