A View of the English Stage: Or, A Series of Dramatic CriticismsG. Bell & sons, 1906 - 358 pages |
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... wish I could retract what I have been obliged to say in reprobation of others . Public reputation is a lottery , in which there are blanks as well as prizes . The Stage is an arduous profession , requiring so many essential excellences ...
... wish I could retract what I have been obliged to say in reprobation of others . Public reputation is a lottery , in which there are blanks as well as prizes . The Stage is an arduous profession , requiring so many essential excellences ...
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... wish the introduction of the ghosts through the trap- doors of the stage were altogether omitted . The speeches , which they address to Richard , might be delivered just as well from behind the scenes . These sort of exhibitions are ...
... wish the introduction of the ghosts through the trap- doors of the stage were altogether omitted . The speeches , which they address to Richard , might be delivered just as well from behind the scenes . These sort of exhibitions are ...
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... wishes to represent , and to pass from one to the other , like the same soul successively animating different bodies . By an art like that of the ventriloquist , he throws his imagina- tion out of himself , and makes every word appear ...
... wishes to represent , and to pass from one to the other , like the same soul successively animating different bodies . By an art like that of the ventriloquist , he throws his imagina- tion out of himself , and makes every word appear ...
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... wish to speak of him more contemptuously than he deserves . There is , we think , in general , considerable propriety in his conception , and great spirit in his execution ; but it is almost universally carried into grimace and ...
... wish to speak of him more contemptuously than he deserves . There is , we think , in general , considerable propriety in his conception , and great spirit in his execution ; but it is almost universally carried into grimace and ...
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... wish to throw the fault of most of our objections on the managers . Their conduct has been marked by one uniform ... wishes of the public . They have spun him tediously out in every character , and have forced him to display the variety ...
... wish to throw the fault of most of our objections on the managers . Their conduct has been marked by one uniform ... wishes of the public . They have spun him tediously out in every character , and have forced him to display the variety ...
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