A View of the English Stage: Or, A Series of Dramatic CriticismsG. Bell & sons, 1906 - 358 pages |
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... present case the absence of Miss Smith was not a misfortune , for Mrs. Glover gave to the fine scene with her children a force and feeling that 1 Richard III , v , v . 4 2 Alexander Pope's first wife ( Elizabeth Younge ) played this ...
... present case the absence of Miss Smith was not a misfortune , for Mrs. Glover gave to the fine scene with her children a force and feeling that 1 Richard III , v , v . 4 2 Alexander Pope's first wife ( Elizabeth Younge ) played this ...
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... presents a perpetual succession of striking pictures . He bids fair to supply us with the best Shakespeare Gallery 2 we have had ! MR . KEAN'S HAMLET . [ Drury Lane ] March 14 . THAT which distinguishes the dramatic productions of ...
... presents a perpetual succession of striking pictures . He bids fair to supply us with the best Shakespeare Gallery 2 we have had ! MR . KEAN'S HAMLET . [ Drury Lane ] March 14 . THAT which distinguishes the dramatic productions of ...
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... present compilation , from these flashes of genius which lay open the inmost soul , to the forced mechanical style and architectural dialogue of Dryden , is abrupt and painful . 3 The play was got up with every advantage of external ...
... present compilation , from these flashes of genius which lay open the inmost soul , to the forced mechanical style and architectural dialogue of Dryden , is abrupt and painful . 3 The play was got up with every advantage of external ...
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... present .instance , startled the audience , as it preceded the speech which explained its meaning . Perhaps the emphasis given to the exclamation , " And Romeo banished , " 1 and to the de- scription of Tybalt , “ festering in his ...
... present .instance , startled the audience , as it preceded the speech which explained its meaning . Perhaps the emphasis given to the exclamation , " And Romeo banished , " 1 and to the de- scription of Tybalt , “ festering in his ...
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... present passed the line . There are , no doubt , passages in which the pauses can hardly be too long , or too marked - these must be , however , of rare occurrence , and it is in the finding out these exceptions to the general rule ...
... present passed the line . There are , no doubt , passages in which the pauses can hardly be too long , or too marked - these must be , however , of rare occurrence , and it is in the finding out these exceptions to the general rule ...
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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.