The Album, Volumen 3J. Andrews., 1823 |
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... scarcely known even by name . The elder Colman , in his prologue to the revival of Philas- ter , in 1763 , thus aptly characterizes the whole race : - Next , prim , and trim , and delicate , and chaste , A hash from Greece and France ...
... scarcely known even by name . The elder Colman , in his prologue to the revival of Philas- ter , in 1763 , thus aptly characterizes the whole race : - Next , prim , and trim , and delicate , and chaste , A hash from Greece and France ...
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... scarcely more celebrated than it deserves . Never was such subtlety , such wariness de- picted , as in the gradual and unobserved attempt of Iago to darken the mind of Othello with the horrors of jealousy . The first avowal of his ...
... scarcely more celebrated than it deserves . Never was such subtlety , such wariness de- picted , as in the gradual and unobserved attempt of Iago to darken the mind of Othello with the horrors of jealousy . The first avowal of his ...
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... stage - costume of the last century . We can scarcely , indeed , understand the passive simplicity of our ancestors , who could quietly contemplate a Mac- beth in full court - dress , or applaud a 12 ON ANCIENT AND MODERN TRAGEDY .
... stage - costume of the last century . We can scarcely , indeed , understand the passive simplicity of our ancestors , who could quietly contemplate a Mac- beth in full court - dress , or applaud a 12 ON ANCIENT AND MODERN TRAGEDY .
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... scarcely be denied that there are situations in real life , as deeply tragic as it is possible for the mind of a poet to conceive , —and we are very confident , that if the words actually uttered in such situations could be taken down ...
... scarcely be denied that there are situations in real life , as deeply tragic as it is possible for the mind of a poet to conceive , —and we are very confident , that if the words actually uttered in such situations could be taken down ...
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... scarcely less power , and as a whole ( though we know it is contrary to the general opinion , ) we prefer it even to the other . The character of Alicia is drawn with a terrible reality almost peculiar to this most extraordinary writer ...
... scarcely less power , and as a whole ( though we know it is contrary to the general opinion , ) we prefer it even to the other . The character of Alicia is drawn with a terrible reality almost peculiar to this most extraordinary writer ...
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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.