A Course of Lectures on Dramatic Art and LiteratureBell & Daldy, 1871 - 535 pages |
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... display of a natural gift for language , which enabled him immediately on the close of his academic career to accept a tutorial appointment , which demanded of its holder a knowledge not only of the classics but also of English and ...
... display of a natural gift for language , which enabled him immediately on the close of his academic career to accept a tutorial appointment , which demanded of its holder a knowledge not only of the classics but also of English and ...
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... display of vigour , led to an interesting argument between him- self , Bernhardi , and Schilling . This discussion , which ex- tended from its original subject to Euripides and Dramatic Representation in general , was carried on in the ...
... display of vigour , led to an interesting argument between him- self , Bernhardi , and Schilling . This discussion , which ex- tended from its original subject to Euripides and Dramatic Representation in general , was carried on in the ...
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... displays not only an extraordi- nary degree of mechanical skill , but also a marvellous power of invention ; and , on a closer examination , we recognize its profound significance , and perceive that as well as the Grecian it ...
... displays not only an extraordi- nary degree of mechanical skill , but also a marvellous power of invention ; and , on a closer examination , we recognize its profound significance , and perceive that as well as the Grecian it ...
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... display of itself ; and the noble endeavour to become acquainted with , and to appropriate to itself whatever is excellent in others , is not seldom accompanied with an undervaluing of its own worth . For these reasons the German stage ...
... display of itself ; and the noble endeavour to become acquainted with , and to appropriate to itself whatever is excellent in others , is not seldom accompanied with an undervaluing of its own worth . For these reasons the German stage ...
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... display themselves without restraint . When the sense of shame which ordinarily keeps these baser propensities within the bounds of decency , is once weakened by the sight of others ' participation in them , our inherent sympathy with ...
... display themselves without restraint . When the sense of shame which ordinarily keeps these baser propensities within the bounds of decency , is once weakened by the sight of others ' participation in them , our inherent sympathy with ...
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Page 350 - How absolute the knave is ! we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us. By the Lord, Horatio, these three years I have taken note of it ; the age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe. — How long hast thou been a grave-maker? 1 Clo. Of all the days i' the year, I came to't that day that our last King Hamlet o'ercame Fortinbras.
Page 251 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Page 398 - Say, there be ; Yet nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean ; so, o'er that art Which, you say, adds to nature, is an art That nature makes.
Page 372 - This fellow is wise enough to play the fool; And to do that well craves a kind of wit. 60 He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye. This is a practice As full of labour as a wise man's art.