The Album, Volumen 3J. Andrews., 1823 |
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... effect * . We are disposed to go still farther , and to inquire whether some of the plays of our own time so far excel * In the time of Thespis , the drama consisted of a recitation in verse , and a dialogue in strophe and anti ...
... effect * . We are disposed to go still farther , and to inquire whether some of the plays of our own time so far excel * In the time of Thespis , the drama consisted of a recitation in verse , and a dialogue in strophe and anti ...
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... effect , and all the allurements of poetical beauty . At the very time of the exhibition of " The Persians " at Athens , the vanquished invader was crouching , with proposals of a treaty , to the power whose supremacy he was compelled ...
... effect , and all the allurements of poetical beauty . At the very time of the exhibition of " The Persians " at Athens , the vanquished invader was crouching , with proposals of a treaty , to the power whose supremacy he was compelled ...
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... effect even of pathetic writing is greatly impaired by the French Alexandrine , but with sublimity it is absolutely irreconcilable . We think , therefore , those French tragedies the best , which turn upon interesting , rather than upon ...
... effect even of pathetic writing is greatly impaired by the French Alexandrine , but with sublimity it is absolutely irreconcilable . We think , therefore , those French tragedies the best , which turn upon interesting , rather than upon ...
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... effect , and although specially intended to preserve the illusion of the drama , has , in fact , destroyed it , by prohibiting even the change of scene necessary for the different business of the play * . But , say the advocates of Cato ...
... effect , and although specially intended to preserve the illusion of the drama , has , in fact , destroyed it , by prohibiting even the change of scene necessary for the different business of the play * . But , say the advocates of Cato ...
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... effect to the plays of Shakspeare , the utmost power of scenery and decoration should be brought into exertion . We have lived to see great improve- ments in this respect ; the mode of representing these matchless pieces is now as far ...
... effect to the plays of Shakspeare , the utmost power of scenery and decoration should be brought into exertion . We have lived to see great improve- ments in this respect ; the mode of representing these matchless pieces is now as far ...
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Página 21 - I'll not shed her blood, Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow, And smooth as monumental alabaster. Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men. Put out the light, and then put out the light.
Página 298 - Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light: But, oh ! she dances such a way— No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight.
Página 410 - A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet ; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food, For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Página 429 - Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it. Think'st thou that I, who saw the face of God And tasted the eternal joys of heaven, Am not tormented with ten thousand hells, In being depriv'd of everlasting bliss?
Página 388 - In a dramatic composition the imagery and the passion should interpenetrate one another, the former being reserved simply for the full developement and illustration of the latter. Imagination is as the immortal God which should assume flesh for the redemption of mortal passion.
Página 410 - She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay.
Página 153 - And falling and brawling and sprawling, And driving and riving and striving, And sprinkling and twinkling and wrinkling, And sounding...
Página 97 - Tis but as ivy-leaves around the ruin'd turret wreath, All green and wildly fresh without, but worn and grey beneath. Oh, could I feel as I have felt, — or be what I have been, Or weep as I could once have wept, o'er many a vanish'd scene ; As springs in deserts found seem sweet, all brackish though they be, So, midst the wither'd waste of life, those tears would flow to me.
Página 94 - My joy was in the Wilderness, to breathe The difficult air of the iced mountain's top, Where the birds dare not build, nor insect's wing Flit o'er the herbless granite...
Página 153 - Sounds and motions forever and ever are blending, All at once and all o'er, with a mighty uproar, — And this way the water comes down at Lodore.