Memoirs of John A. HeraudG. Redway, 1898 - 160 páginas |
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Página 90 - Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer cloud, Without our special wonder...
Página 157 - Martin was in art, a worshipper of the vast, the remote, and the terrible. His ' Descent ' and ' Judgment ' are remarkable poems — 'psychological curiosities,' evincing a great amount of misplaced intellectual and poetic power.
Página 157 - Flood,' 1834. He has also been a contributor to the unacted drama, having written several tragedies — ' Salavera,' ' The Two Brothers,' ' Videna,' &c. Mr. Heraud is, or rather was, in poetry what Martin was in art, a worshipper of the vast, the remote, and the terrible. His
Página 133 - ... Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature ? Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings : My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man, that function Is smothered in surmise ; and nothing is, But what is not.
Página 158 - Heraud was a born critic of acting. His memory carried him back to John Kemble and Edmund Kean. He was himself the writer of several dramas. The tragedy of ' Videna ' was acted at the Marylebone Theatre with success in 1854, and 'Wife or No Wife
Página 19 - Believe me, when I tell you that of all modes of life, that of the man who trusts to his literary exertions alone for support is the most miserable. And the very end at which he aims in his outset — that of improving and exalting his intellectual faculties — is most effectually defeated by the means which he pursues.
Página 40 - I work as a duty, at other things by inclination. Wordsworth has a regular income adequate to his support, and therefore may do as he likes." That same adequate Income is the envy of the impecunious; but it Is not so entirely a blessing as, in our poverty, we take it to be. Possibly Wordsworth himself might, had he come under the influence of a capable and exacting editor, have lifted up the work of his dull moments, without in any way impairing...
Página 158 - July 21, 1873, on the nomination of Mr. WE Gladstone, he was appointed a brother of the Charterhouse, Charterhouse Square, London, where he died on April 20, 1887.
Página 102 - Poor Douglas Jerrold ! As I write these lines, visions of " Black-Eyed Susan," and the thousands of tearful eyes that witnessed it, float before me ; and often, when acting in this pathetic nautical drama, I have wondered if the author, when he wrote it, was charged with a superabundance, or the reverse, of the commodity he so highly prized — common sense. About this period I became acquainted with Mrs. George Lovell, the wife of Mr. Lovell, the author of "The Wife's Secret