A Course of Lectures on Dramatic Art and LiteratureBell & Daldy, 1871 - 535 pages |
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... thing remarkable that has been composed for the theatre , from the time of the Grecians to our own days . It is not a barren nomenclature of the works of the various authors : he seizes the spirit of their different sorts of literature ...
... thing remarkable that has been composed for the theatre , from the time of the Grecians to our own days . It is not a barren nomenclature of the works of the various authors : he seizes the spirit of their different sorts of literature ...
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... thing good and becoming have merited my gratitude for the assistance which they gave to my undertaking , and the en- couragement which they afforded me during its execution . The whole of my auditors rendered my labour extremely ...
... thing good and becoming have merited my gratitude for the assistance which they gave to my undertaking , and the en- couragement which they afforded me during its execution . The whole of my auditors rendered my labour extremely ...
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... thing at first assumes a noble appearance : the childish gardener struts proudly up and down among his showy beds , till the rootless plants begin to droop , and hang their withered leaves and blossoms , and nothing soon remains but the ...
... thing at first assumes a noble appearance : the childish gardener struts proudly up and down among his showy beds , till the rootless plants begin to droop , and hang their withered leaves and blossoms , and nothing soon remains but the ...
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... thing finite and mortal is lost in the con- templation of infinity ; life has become shadow and darkness , But " Work and the first day of our real existence dawns in the world while it is beyond the grave . Such a religion must waken ...
... thing finite and mortal is lost in the con- templation of infinity ; life has become shadow and darkness , But " Work and the first day of our real existence dawns in the world while it is beyond the grave . Such a religion must waken ...
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... thing , how- ever , as in the history of a war to give the name of every soldier who fought in the ranks of the hostile armies . It is usual , however , to speak only of the generals , and those who may have performed actions of ...
... thing , how- ever , as in the history of a war to give the name of every soldier who fought in the ranks of the hostile armies . It is usual , however , to speak only of the generals , and those who may have performed actions of ...
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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.