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Página 95
... characters rich and racy , yet na- tural ; and of incidents gay and sprightly , yet pro- bable ; and was , indeed , a mirror to show " the very age and body of the time , its form and pressure . " Now , what is a comedy ? Messrs ...
... characters rich and racy , yet na- tural ; and of incidents gay and sprightly , yet pro- bable ; and was , indeed , a mirror to show " the very age and body of the time , its form and pressure . " Now , what is a comedy ? Messrs ...
Página 98
... character on this account , and we all know the force of the proverb " give a dog a bad name , " & c . There is too much truth in what a clever writer has said , that " the cant of delicacy has done thrice the injury to the drama that ...
... character on this account , and we all know the force of the proverb " give a dog a bad name , " & c . There is too much truth in what a clever writer has said , that " the cant of delicacy has done thrice the injury to the drama that ...
Página 114
... characters have just said , and what they are going to say — remarks on the author - off - hand criticisms on the actors , accom- panied with short biographical notices of both , to- gether with a running commentary on different parts ...
... characters have just said , and what they are going to say — remarks on the author - off - hand criticisms on the actors , accom- panied with short biographical notices of both , to- gether with a running commentary on different parts ...
Página 121
... characters have just said , and what they are going to say - remarks on the author - off - hand criticisms on the actors , accom- panied with short biographical notices of both , to- gether with a running commentary on different parts ...
... characters have just said , and what they are going to say - remarks on the author - off - hand criticisms on the actors , accom- panied with short biographical notices of both , to- gether with a running commentary on different parts ...
Página 141
... characters are well and favorably known , can do but comparatively little harm ; they may exclaim with Brutus , " I am armed so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind , Which I regard not ; " but suppose an honorable ...
... characters are well and favorably known , can do but comparatively little harm ; they may exclaim with Brutus , " I am armed so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind , Which I regard not ; " but suppose an honorable ...
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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
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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.