The Album, Volumen 3J. Andrews., 1823 |
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... truth . In taking this view of the English theatre , Shakspeare is , of course , the great name to which we cling in sup- port of our national style of dramatic writing ; and , in our observations upon him , we shall consider him solely ...
... truth . In taking this view of the English theatre , Shakspeare is , of course , the great name to which we cling in sup- port of our national style of dramatic writing ; and , in our observations upon him , we shall consider him solely ...
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... truth , as it would almost seem to be , among the arts which are lost ? Such plays would , with the great majority , have equal novelty with those really new - and would give variety and relief to the few stock tragedies which engross ...
... truth , as it would almost seem to be , among the arts which are lost ? Such plays would , with the great majority , have equal novelty with those really new - and would give variety and relief to the few stock tragedies which engross ...
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... truth of things as I am , and shall proceed to lay that truth before them accordingly - no better dressed than in its own bare simplicity and beauty . Perhaps I should add , before I throw myself for good into the arms of my subject ...
... truth of things as I am , and shall proceed to lay that truth before them accordingly - no better dressed than in its own bare simplicity and beauty . Perhaps I should add , before I throw myself for good into the arms of my subject ...
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... mouth till you can't hold him up any longer ( which I take to be as unequivocal and truth - telling a proceeding as need be ) -be styled " fibbing ? " Does a man's starting up on his legs like a hero , 34 FIGHTING REMINISCENCES .
... mouth till you can't hold him up any longer ( which I take to be as unequivocal and truth - telling a proceeding as need be ) -be styled " fibbing ? " Does a man's starting up on his legs like a hero , 34 FIGHTING REMINISCENCES .
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tus nil nisi verum . " Of whom shall we speak the truth , if not of the dead - supposing that truth to be injurious to their name ? —of the living ( especially behind their backs ) , it is an excellent general rule to speak nothing but ...
tus nil nisi verum . " Of whom shall we speak the truth , if not of the dead - supposing that truth to be injurious to their name ? —of the living ( especially behind their backs ) , it is an excellent general rule to speak nothing but ...
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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.