A Course of Lectures on Dramatic Art and LiteratureBell & Daldy, 1871 - 535 pages |
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... passion for the titles of books , and we willingly concede to them the privilege of increasing their number by books on the titles of books . It is much the same thing , how- ever , as in the history of a war to give the name of every ...
... passion for the titles of books , and we willingly concede to them the privilege of increasing their number by books on the titles of books . It is much the same thing , how- ever , as in the history of a war to give the name of every ...
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... passions of youth soon settles into a stagnant marsh . From the discontent which this occasions they are compelled to have recourse to all sorts of diversions , which uniformly consist in a species of occupation . that may be renounced ...
... passions of youth soon settles into a stagnant marsh . From the discontent which this occasions they are compelled to have recourse to all sorts of diversions , which uniformly consist in a species of occupation . that may be renounced ...
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... passions of others , he involuntarily puts on a resem- blance to them in his gestures . Children are perpetually going out of themselves ; it is one of their chief amusements to repre- sent those grown people whom they have had an ...
... passions of others , he involuntarily puts on a resem- blance to them in his gestures . Children are perpetually going out of themselves ; it is one of their chief amusements to repre- sent those grown people whom they have had an ...
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... passions . With respect to theatrical fitness , however , it must not be forgotten that much must always depend on the capacities and humours of the audience , and , consequently , on the national character in general , and the ...
... passions . With respect to theatrical fitness , however , it must not be forgotten that much must always depend on the capacities and humours of the audience , and , consequently , on the national character in general , and the ...
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... passions we cherish an enemy in our bosoms ; how every moment demands from us , in the name of the most sacred duties , the sacrifice of our dearest inclinations , and how at one blow we may be robbed of all that we have acquired with ...
... passions we cherish an enemy in our bosoms ; how every moment demands from us , in the name of the most sacred duties , the sacrifice of our dearest inclinations , and how at one blow we may be robbed of all that we have acquired 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.