Crayon Sketches, Том 2Conner and Cooke, 1833 |
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... tragedy or comedy , so much the bet- ter ; if not , an opera will do as well ; if that is not to be had , why then a broad farce , or a broader me- lo - drama ; or in default of these , even an extrava- ganza or a pantomime ; always ...
... tragedy or comedy , so much the bet- ter ; if not , an opera will do as well ; if that is not to be had , why then a broad farce , or a broader me- lo - drama ; or in default of these , even an extrava- ganza or a pantomime ; always ...
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... tragedy , without the stateliness and poetry , where the murders are committed in simple prose , and the villanies carried on without the aid of blank verse . It is the sketch and outline of a tragedy where actions are represented ...
... tragedy , without the stateliness and poetry , where the murders are committed in simple prose , and the villanies carried on without the aid of blank verse . It is the sketch and outline of a tragedy where actions are represented ...
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... tragedy or comedy , which in itself contains enough poetry and passion , wit and sense for any reasonable man for one evening , be first enacted , and then let any popular nonsense most in vogue occasionally follow , by which ...
... tragedy or comedy , which in itself contains enough poetry and passion , wit and sense for any reasonable man for one evening , be first enacted , and then let any popular nonsense most in vogue occasionally follow , by which ...
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... tragedy is eschewed as tending to heat the blood . Now do people prefer broiling at the springs to broiling in the city , and travel post - haste to keep themselves cool and comfortable , though , at the same time , an account in the ...
... tragedy is eschewed as tending to heat the blood . Now do people prefer broiling at the springs to broiling in the city , and travel post - haste to keep themselves cool and comfortable , though , at the same time , an account in the ...
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... tragedy , or Liston in comedy . " The prince of darkness is a gentleman , " says Shakspeare , but two - thirds of his representatives in London make him out little better than an illiterate scoundrel . It is rather too bad on the most ...
... tragedy , or Liston in comedy . " The prince of darkness is a gentleman , " says Shakspeare , but two - thirds of his representatives in London make him out little better than an illiterate scoundrel . It is rather too bad on the most ...
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Страница 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...
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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!
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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...
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.