A View of the English Stage: Or, A Series of Dramatic CriticismsG. Bell & sons, 1906 - 358 pages |
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... March 13 , 1814 ) . His London début as a tragedian — Wednesday , Jan. 26 , 1814– ( when Hazlitt says “ there were about a hundred people in the pit ” —Table Talk , p . 414 ) is described above . 2 Merchant of Venice , I , iii . B ...
... March 13 , 1814 ) . His London début as a tragedian — Wednesday , Jan. 26 , 1814– ( when Hazlitt says “ there were about a hundred people in the pit ” —Table Talk , p . 414 ) is described above . 2 Merchant of Venice , I , iii . B ...
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... March 13 , 1814 ) . His London début as a tragedian Wednesday , Jan. 26 , 1814- ( when Hazlitt says " there were about a hundred people in the pit " -Table Talk , p . 414 ) is described above . 2 Merchant of Venice , I , iii . B ...
... March 13 , 1814 ) . His London début as a tragedian Wednesday , Jan. 26 , 1814- ( when Hazlitt says " there were about a hundred people in the pit " -Table Talk , p . 414 ) is described above . 2 Merchant of Venice , I , iii . B ...
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... March 14 . THAT which distinguishes the dramatic productions of Shakespeare from all others , is the wonderful variety and perfect individuality of his characters . Each of these is as much itself , and as absolutely independent of the ...
... March 14 . THAT which distinguishes the dramatic productions of Shakespeare from all others , is the wonderful variety and perfect individuality of his characters . Each of these is as much itself , and as absolutely independent of the ...
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... } Pope , Moral Essays , ii , 17-20 . Pope says " the Cynthia of this minute . " 3 Saturday , March 12 . 2 Hamlet , I , ii , 85 . delineation of the character wrong . It was too strong 14 A View of the English Stage . II.
... } Pope , Moral Essays , ii , 17-20 . Pope says " the Cynthia of this minute . " 3 Saturday , March 12 . 2 Hamlet , I , ii , 85 . delineation of the character wrong . It was too strong 14 A View of the English Stage . II.
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... . Kean's Iago " were contributed by Hazlitt several months before he joined the regular staff of the paper . The " ingenious and able critic " expressed MR . KEAN'S RICHARD II.1 [ Drury Lane ] March 68 A View of the English Stage .
... . Kean's Iago " were contributed by Hazlitt several months before he joined the regular staff of the paper . The " ingenious and able critic " expressed MR . KEAN'S RICHARD II.1 [ Drury Lane ] March 68 A View of the English Stage .
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Page 66 - Think, my lord ! By heaven, he echoes me. As if there were some monster in his thought Too hideous to be shown.
Page 62 - Ay, there's the point :' — as — to be bold with you — Not to affect many proposed matches Of her own clime, complexion, and degree, Whereto we see in all things nature tends, — Foh ! one may smell in such a will most rank, Foul disproportion, thoughts unnatural...
Page 67 - Dangerous conceits are, in their natures, poisons, Which, at the first, are scarce found to distaste ; But, with a little act upon the blood, Burn like the mines of sulphur.
Page 14 - If folly grow romantic, I must paint it. Come, then, the colours and the ground prepare ! Dip in the rainbow, trick her off in air ; Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.