Crayon Sketches, Volume 2Conner and Cooke, 1833 |
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... play , let it be what it may . In theatrical matters we must confess that our own taste is by no means particularly fastidious , but is capable of embracing all the different species ( not individuals ) of the dramatic family , even the ...
... play , let it be what it may . In theatrical matters we must confess that our own taste is by no means particularly fastidious , but is capable of embracing all the different species ( not individuals ) of the dramatic family , even the ...
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... play . There are , however , some things occasionally exhibited which there is no getting over , to wit , dogs , horses , elephants , and the brute creation in general - real fire and real water , won- derful ascensions from the stage ...
... play . There are , however , some things occasionally exhibited which there is no getting over , to wit , dogs , horses , elephants , and the brute creation in general - real fire and real water , won- derful ascensions from the stage ...
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... 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 ; " as if a chance word spoken in a church or 108 AN EVENING AT THE THEATRE .
... 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 ; " as if a chance word spoken in a church or 108 AN EVENING AT THE THEATRE .
Página 114
... play , they detail the whole history of the plot - what has been done in the last scene , and what is to be done in the next - what the several characters have just said , and what they are going to say - remarks on the author - off ...
... play , they detail the whole history of the plot - what has been done in the last scene , and what is to be done in the next - what the several characters have just said , and what they are going to say - remarks on the author - off ...
Página 115
... play , and can sit patiently beside one of those annoyances , has more meekness than Moses , more patience than Job , more forbear- ance than Socrates , and no nerves at all . A VOYAGE TO EUROPE . WASHINGTON IRVING crossed the Atlantic ...
... play , and can sit patiently beside one of those annoyances , has more meekness than Moses , more patience than Job , more forbear- ance than Socrates , and no nerves at all . A VOYAGE TO EUROPE . WASHINGTON IRVING crossed the Atlantic ...
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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.