Crayon Sketches, Volume 2Conner and Cooke, 1833 |
No interior do livro
Resultados 1-5 de 8
Página 163
... excellence and Siddonian power , passion , grace , and majesty does not , never did , and it may be , never will exist again in the same person . She stands alone : no comparison between her and any other will hold good -- though not so ...
... excellence and Siddonian power , passion , grace , and majesty does not , never did , and it may be , never will exist again in the same person . She stands alone : no comparison between her and any other will hold good -- though not so ...
Página 170
... excellence , and strangers were often astonished at the slight estimation in which he was held . This is human nature : we are un- willing to give up early impressions , or retract ex- pressed opinions . Had a strange actor of equal ...
... excellence , and strangers were often astonished at the slight estimation in which he was held . This is human nature : we are un- willing to give up early impressions , or retract ex- pressed opinions . Had a strange actor of equal ...
Página 188
... excellence . Some may think these are at the best but trifling affairs ; we do not . A delineation true to nature is a rare thing , and well worth looking after in what- ever shape it is to be found . Miss Fisher has rather a penchant ...
... excellence . Some may think these are at the best but trifling affairs ; we do not . A delineation true to nature is a rare thing , and well worth looking after in what- ever shape it is to be found . Miss Fisher has rather a penchant ...
Página 193
... excellence in any shape . But Vestris , the exquisite Vestris appeared , and all that had gone before seemed poor in com- parison . With a form cast in nature's happiest mould , and a face to match ; with " Motions graceful as a bird's ...
... excellence in any shape . But Vestris , the exquisite Vestris appeared , and all that had gone before seemed poor in com- parison . With a form cast in nature's happiest mould , and a face to match ; with " Motions graceful as a bird's ...
Página 203
... excellence of Mrs. Wheatley ; however her " nice derangement of epithets " may betray her ignorance , her appear- ance and manners show she is not one of the ca- naille , but familiar at least with the forms and manners of a drawing ...
... excellence of Mrs. Wheatley ; however her " nice derangement of epithets " may betray her ignorance , her appear- ance and manners show she is not one of the ca- naille , but familiar at least with the forms and manners of a drawing ...
Outras edições - Ver tudo
Palavras e frases frequentes
actor actress admiration amid amusing animal appear audience Barnes Barry beautiful become better Byron cerning character charming choly Clara Fisher cold comedy dancing delightful drama effect equal eyes face Falstaff fashion faults feelings folly foolish gentlemen give grace green habit hand heart High Holborn Hilson human imitation joke lady land laugh Liston look Madame Vestris Malaprop manner melan melancholy merit mind Miss Kelly moral morning nature ness never New-York opinion Park theatre pass passion Pasta Pat O'Connor person piece play pleasant pleasure poetry poor present racter reason round scene Scott seen Shakspeare sight Sir Walter Scott species spirit stage summer taste theatre theatrical thing thou tion Titus Dodds Tom and Jerry tragedy truth voice vulgar Washington Irving Waverley novels Wheatley Woodhull words young
Passagens conhecidas
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.