Poems on Various Subjects: Chiefly Theatricalauthor, and published, 1825 - 112 páginas |
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acting actor afflict ancient Rome appear applause artifice audience bard beauty blest boast celebrated cellent character CICERO circumstance COOKE CORIOLANUS critic Davies tells dear dignity dispute the palm encomiums endeavour excellent fair father feeling flogging GARRICK gave gentleman give greatest happy hath heard heart Heav'n honor humble I'll stand impediment Kean Kean's KEMBLE King KING LEAR lines London look Lord Chesterfield Macbeth manner Merchant of Venice merit mind Miss O'NEIL morning nature Nature's never numbers o'er observed opinion passions Pertinax plain play players POEMS poet Portsmouth possess'd pow'r praise pride pride and glory racter rage readers recite RICHARD THE THIRD Roscius satire scarcely Shakspeare Shakspeare's shou'd Shylock SIDDONS sinful age smile soliloquy soul speak speech stage superior sure talent tears theatre THEATRICAL thing thought tion tragedian tragic art Twas vice vile virtue wish wou'd write
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Página 57 - I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.
Página 99 - But is it not some reproach upon the economy of Providence that such a one, who is a mean dirty fellow, should have amassed wealth enough to buy half a nation?" Not in the least. He made himself a mean dirty fellow for that very end. He has paid his health, his conscience, his liberty for it; and will you envy him his bargain?
Página 44 - Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York ; And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
Página 99 - What reward! A large comprehensive soul, well purged from vulgar fears, and perturbations, and prejudices; able to comprehend and interpret the works of man — of God. A rich, flourishing, cultivated mind, pregnant with inexhaustible stores of entertainment and reflection. A perpetual spring of fresh ideas; and the conscious dignity of superior intelligence.
Página 104 - ... as an imaginary distinction, unless accompanied with the practice of those generous virtues by which it ought to be obtained.
Página 105 - The chief advantage that ancient writers can boast over modern ones, seems owing to simplicity. Every noble truth and sentiment was expressed by the former in the natural manner ; in word and phrase, simple, perspicuous, and incapable of improvement. What then remained for later writers but affectation, witticism, and conceit I IX.
Página 26 - Tis now the dead of night, and half the world Is in a lonely solemn darkness hung; Yet I, (so coy a dame is sleep to me) With all the weary courtship of My...
Página 106 - As to be perfectly just is an attribute of the Divine Nature, to be so to the utmost of our abilities is the glory of a man.
Página 45 - Tis a poor skill, which ev'ry fool can reach, A vile stage-custom, honour 'd in the breach. Worse as more close, the disingenuous art But shews the wanton looseness of the heart. When I behold a wretch, of talents mean, Drag private foibles on the public scene, Forsaking nature's fair and open road To mark some whim, some...
Página 51 - What is the constant and just observation as to all actors upon the stage ? Is it not, that those who have the best sense always speak the best, though they may happen not to have the best voices ? They will speak plainly, distinctly, and with the proper emphasis, be their voices ever so bad.