A View of the English Stage: Or, A Series of Dramatic CriticismsG. Bell & sons, 1906 - 358 pages |
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... scene , where he utters the curse , rose up , when those behind them , not willing to interrupt the scene by remonstrat- ing , immediately rose up too , and in this manner , the whole pit rose up , without uttering a syllable , and so ...
... scene , where he utters the curse , rose up , when those behind them , not willing to interrupt the scene by remonstrat- ing , immediately rose up too , and in this manner , the whole pit rose up , without uttering a syllable , and so ...
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... scene in which Mr. Kean came on , my doubts were at an end . I had been told to give as favourable an account as I could : I gave a true one . I am not one of those who , when they see the sun breaking from behind a cloud , stop to ask ...
... scene in which Mr. Kean came on , my doubts were at an end . I had been told to give as favourable an account as I could : I gave a true one . I am not one of those who , when they see the sun breaking from behind a cloud , stop to ask ...
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... scene to the last , was general , loud , and uninterrupted . Indeed , the very first scene in which he comes on with Bassanio and Antonio , showed the master in his art , and at once decided the opinion of the audience . Perhaps it was ...
... scene to the last , was general , loud , and uninterrupted . Indeed , the very first scene in which he comes on with Bassanio and Antonio , showed the master in his art , and at once decided the opinion of the audience . Perhaps it was ...
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... scene to the last , was general , loud , and uninterrupted . Indeed , the very first scene in which he comes on with Bassanio and Antonio , 2 showed the master in his art , and at once decided the opinion of the audience . Perhaps it ...
... scene to the last , was general , loud , and uninterrupted . Indeed , the very first scene in which he comes on with Bassanio and Antonio , 2 showed the master in his art , and at once decided the opinion of the audience . Perhaps it ...
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... scene , was highly impressive . 6 1 Edmund Kean was the nephew of Moses Kean the ventriloquist . 2 Tuesday , February 1 . 3 John Philip Kemble , who made his London début at Drury Lane as Hamlet , September 30 , 1783 , played Shylock ...
... scene , was highly impressive . 6 1 Edmund Kean was the nephew of Moses Kean the ventriloquist . 2 Tuesday , February 1 . 3 John Philip Kemble , who made his London début at Drury Lane as Hamlet , September 30 , 1783 , played Shylock ...
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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.