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... perhaps are wrong in saying , we wish to correct , for this is only a matter of individual preference , and we are equally open to objection for any opinions that we may express . The purpose of the Life of Kean appears to be this ...
... perhaps are wrong in saying , we wish to correct , for this is only a matter of individual preference , and we are equally open to objection for any opinions that we may express . The purpose of the Life of Kean appears to be this ...
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... perhaps too anxiously , watched by many . The theatre is considered not merely as a source of amusement , but by some it is regarded as a school of eloquence , and even as a criterion of public morals . It is not for us to decide ...
... perhaps too anxiously , watched by many . The theatre is considered not merely as a source of amusement , but by some it is regarded as a school of eloquence , and even as a criterion of public morals . It is not for us to decide ...
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... perhaps , without taking so much trouble , to form at once a decisive , irreversible judgment on the merits of the whole , and trumpet it to the little or the great world , of whose tastes and opinions he has the guidance . And who can ...
... perhaps , without taking so much trouble , to form at once a decisive , irreversible judgment on the merits of the whole , and trumpet it to the little or the great world , of whose tastes and opinions he has the guidance . And who can ...
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... perhaps of his own inadequacy to the production of any thing approaching to the grand or beautiful , he finds it a convenient method of obtaining at least the negative fame of a critic , to ridicule the attempts , laugh at the failures ...
... perhaps of his own inadequacy to the production of any thing approaching to the grand or beautiful , he finds it a convenient method of obtaining at least the negative fame of a critic , to ridicule the attempts , laugh at the failures ...
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... perhaps himself hardly conscious of the resistless power by which he is held in subjection to the fatal propensity under our consideration . Scanning every work that may fall in his way with eyes eagerly bent on the detection of defects ...
... perhaps himself hardly conscious of the resistless power by which he is held in subjection to the fatal propensity under our consideration . Scanning every work that may fall in his way with eyes eagerly bent on the detection of defects ...
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absolutely endless actor admirers Alleghany Anthony Wayne band BARRY CORNWALL blessed Braddock Braddock's Field bright British constitution Burke cacoëthes censendi CANT OF CRITICISM censure wrong character colonists Corn Planter critic magnifique curious stranger deep distin distorted vision Drury Lane EDMUND KEAN ELAH eloquence English exhibition faculty FAITHFUL ABENAQUOIS fathers feel form some conception French French Revolution GALLEY-SLAVE genius grand or beautiful guishing characteristic Harvardiana heart hill influence of cacoëthes judgment Kean's labors last Number least the negative Manta memory ment mind ministerial party narrative NATIONAL NOVELS ne'er beguile novelist o'er o'ercast orator ornamental Othello patriotism perfect perhaps Pitt possessed quiet wave rapture recollections rejoice Revolution rifle scenes Shylock smile soldier species of writing spirit spot storm is past tastes and opinions TEAR OF SYMPATHY thee thou tion tomahawk TRAVELLER'S NOTE Virginia Colonel voice watched his dart writes amiss
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Страница 53 - Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging ill ; But, of the two, less dangerous is the offence To tire our patience, than mislead our sense. Some few in that, but numbers err in this ; Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss : A fool might once himself alone expose : Now one in verse makes many more in prose.
Страница 63 - Generous converse ; a soul exempt from pride ; And love to praise, with reason on his side ? Such once were critics ; such the happy few, Athens and Rome in better ages knew. The mighty...
Страница 51 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind...
Страница 62 - Unbiased, or by favor, or by spite, Not dully prepossessed, nor blindly right; Though learned, well-bred; and though well-bred, sincere; Modestly bold, and humanly severe; Who to a friend his faults can freely show, And gladly praise the merit of a foe?
Страница 57 - So much they scorn the crowd, that if the throng By chance go right, they purposely go wrong; So schismatics the plain believers quit, And are but damn'd for having too much wit.
Страница 56 - ... is good sense defaced: Some are bewilder'd in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs Nature meant but fools. In search of wit these lose their common sense, And then turn critics...
Страница 60 - And own stale nonsense which they ne'er invent. Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men. Of all this servile herd, the worst is he That in proud...
Страница 51 - If there be one criterion," said Mr. Burke, " which more than all the rest distinguishes a wise and prudent Government from an administration weak and improvident, it is this, well to know when and in what manner to yield what it is impossible to keep. Early reformations are amicable compromises with a friend in power — Late reformations are terms imposed upon a conquered enemy.
Страница 55 - Non audet nisi qui didicit dare; quod medicorum est, Promittunt medici; tractant fabrilia fabri; Scribimus indocti doctique poemata passim.
Страница 48 - It should have some manuals of instruction to guide aright the education of the student; and it is for these reasons that we rejoice in the appearance of this second number of a series of volumes, containing collections of the best speeches of the great English Orators.