The Stage: Both Before and Behind the Curtain, from "observations Taken on the Spot.", Volumen 1Lea & Blanchard, 1840 - 907 páginas |
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... object . At the memorable interview between His Majesty George III . and Doctor Johnson , the King , referring to the controversy between Warburton and Lowth , asked Johnson what he thought of it ; who remarked , " Warburton has most ...
... object . At the memorable interview between His Majesty George III . and Doctor Johnson , the King , referring to the controversy between Warburton and Lowth , asked Johnson what he thought of it ; who remarked , " Warburton has most ...
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... object which I struggled so long and so hard to attain , and for the attainment of which I devoted so much time and paid so much money , having been accom- plished the abolition of the absurd restrictions , during Lent , placed upon ...
... object which I struggled so long and so hard to attain , and for the attainment of which I devoted so much time and paid so much money , having been accom- plished the abolition of the absurd restrictions , during Lent , placed upon ...
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... object is to throw into the ridicule they so justly deserve a medling set of people , who without a particle of information or experience , consider themselves to be theatrical judges , and by ob- truding their advice where it is ...
... object is to throw into the ridicule they so justly deserve a medling set of people , who without a particle of information or experience , consider themselves to be theatrical judges , and by ob- truding their advice where it is ...
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... object of the work is not biographical - it can be a mat- ter of no moment to any one , ignorant of the fact , when or where the writer was born , what was his parentage , or what the nature of his education . Though the prejudice may ...
... object of the work is not biographical - it can be a mat- ter of no moment to any one , ignorant of the fact , when or where the writer was born , what was his parentage , or what the nature of his education . Though the prejudice may ...
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... object was always the cultivation of his art . His fertile mind was ever on the rack of invention ; and he cared lit- tle about the exhibition of his own talent , great as it was on all hands admitted to be , so long as he could sustain ...
... object was always the cultivation of his art . His fertile mind was ever on the rack of invention ; and he cared lit- tle about the exhibition of his own talent , great as it was on all hands admitted to be , so long as he could sustain ...
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Página 143 - There is given Unto the things of earth, which Time hath bent, A spirit's feeling, and where he hath leant His hand, but broke his scythe, there is a power And magic in the ruined battlement, For which the palace of the present hour Must yield its pomp, and wait till ages are its dower.
Página 35 - horse while another may not look over the hedge," has been seldom more fully exemplified than in the circumstance I am about to mention.
Página 156 - THERE is a tear for all that die, A mourner o'er the humblest grave ; But nations swell the funeral cry, And Triumph weeps above the brave. For them is Sorrow's purest sigh O'er Ocean's heaving bosom sent : In vain their bones unburied lie, All earth becomes their monument ! A tomb is theirs on every page, An epitaph on every tongue : The present hours, the future age, For them bewail, to them belong.
Página 115 - The very first Of human, life must spring from woman's breast, Your first small words are taught you from her lips, Your first tears quench'd by her, and your last sighs Too often breathed out In a woman's hearing, When men have shrunk from the ignoble care Of watching the last hour of him who led them.
Página 174 - ... ordained or provided, or any other matter, cause or thing whatsoever to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding.
Página 28 - tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper ; Some liken it to climbing up a hill, Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour, For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill, And bards burn what they call their " midnight taper," To have, when the original is dust, A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust.
Página 96 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed; in breeze or gale or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving, boundless, endless, and sublime, — The image of Eternity, the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Página 114 - We do not think those opinions very consistent; and we think that neither of them could possibly find favour with a person whose genius had a truly dramatic character. We should as soon expect an orator to compose a speech altogether unfit to be spoken. A drama is not merely a dialogue, but an action: and necessarily supposes that something is to pass before the eyes of assembled spectators. Whatever is peculiar to its written part, should derive its peculiarity from this consideration. Its style...
Página 169 - ... and taken in the like kind, or as shall be thought reasonable by him or them, in regard of the great expences of scenes, musick, and such new decorations, as have not been formerly used.