The Prose Works of Charles Lamb, Volumen 1E. Moxon, 1836 |
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... plate in the series , is almost a transcript of Timon's levee in the opening scene of that play . We find a dedicating poet , and other similar characters , in both . The concluding scene in the Rake's Progress is perhaps superior to ...
... plate in the series , is almost a transcript of Timon's levee in the opening scene of that play . We find a dedicating poet , and other similar characters , in both . The concluding scene in the Rake's Progress is perhaps superior to ...
Página 185
... plate the duration and pressure of affliction which it must have asked to destroy such a building ; - and here is the gradual hurtless lapse into idiocy , of faculties , which at their best of times never having been strong , we look ...
... plate the duration and pressure of affliction which it must have asked to destroy such a building ; - and here is the gradual hurtless lapse into idiocy , of faculties , which at their best of times never having been strong , we look ...
Página 186
... employed incongruous characters at the Harlot's Funeral , on a superficial inspection , provoke to * Lines inscribed under the plate . laughter ; but when we have sacrificed the first emotion 186 ON THE GENIUS OF HOGARTH .
... employed incongruous characters at the Harlot's Funeral , on a superficial inspection , provoke to * Lines inscribed under the plate . laughter ; but when we have sacrificed the first emotion 186 ON THE GENIUS OF HOGARTH .
Página 189
... plate , acces- sible to the poorer sort of people , for whose instruc- tion it was done , I think we could have no hesitation in conferring the palm of superior genius upon Hogarth , comparing this work of his with Poussin's picture ...
... plate , acces- sible to the poorer sort of people , for whose instruc- tion it was done , I think we could have no hesitation in conferring the palm of superior genius upon Hogarth , comparing this work of his with Poussin's picture ...
Página 192
... , there be any thing comparable to the expression which Hogarth has put into the face of his broken- down rake in the last plate but one of the Rake's Progress * , where a letter from the manager is 192 ON THE GENIUS OF HOGARTH .
... , there be any thing comparable to the expression which Hogarth has put into the face of his broken- down rake in the last plate but one of the Rake's Progress * , where a letter from the manager is 192 ON THE GENIUS OF HOGARTH .
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1st Footman 1st Gent 1st Lady 2d Footman 2d Lady 2d Waiter artist beautiful Belvil better boys called character Christ's Hospital comic common contemplate cottage countenance creature curiosity deformity delight dizzard Domenichino dream Elinor expression eyes face fancy feel genius gentleman girl give grandmother Hamlet happy Harlot's heart Hogarth Honest Whore honour human humour images Industry and Idle innocence JAMES SHERIDAN KNOWLES John Tomkins kind Landlord laugh Lear living look Lord Madam maid March to Finchley Margaret Maria Matravis melancholy Melesinda mind mirth moral nature never old lady painted painter pass passion person physiognomy picture plate play pleasure poet poor Rake's Progress Rosamund scene seems Shakspeare shew smile sort soul speak spectators spirit suffer sweet tender thing thought Timon of Athens tion vanity virtue Widford WILLIAM ROWLEY woman wonder young
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Página 189 - Achilles' image stood his spear Grip'd in an armed hand; himself behind Was left unseen, save to the eye of mind: A hand, a foot, a face, a leg, a head, Stood for the whole to be imagined.
Página 208 - But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.
Página 97 - Wide o'er this breathing world, a Garrick came. Though sunk in death the forms the Poet drew, The Actor's genius bade them breathe anew ; Though, like the bard himself, in night they lay, Immortal Garrick call'd them back to day : And till Eternity with power sublime Shall mark the mortal hour of hoary Time, Shakspeare and Garrick like twin stars shall shine, And earth irradiate with a beam divine.
Página 120 - On the stage we see nothing but corporal infirmities and weakness, the impotence of rage ; while we read it, we see not Lear, but we are Lear, — we are in his mind, we are sustained by a grandeur which baffles the malice of daughters and storms...
Página 123 - What we see upon a stage is body and bodily action ; what we are conscious of in reading is almost exclusively the mind and its movements : and this, I think, may sufficiently account for the very different sort of delight with which the same play so often affects us in the reading and the seeing.
Página 102 - It may seem a paradox, but I cannot help being of opinion that the plays of Shakespeare are less calculated for performance on a stage than those of almost any other dramatist whatever.
Página 157 - He would have made a great epic poet, if indeed he has not abundantly shown himself to be one ; for his Homer is not so properly a translation as the stories of Achilles and Ulysses re-written.
Página 114 - tis true I have gone here and there And made myself a motley to the view, Gored mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear, Made old offences of affections new.
Página 181 - I was pleased with the reply of a gentleman, who being asked which book he esteemed most in his library, answered, — " Shakspeare :" being asked which he esteemed next best, replied,
Página 103 - Talking is the direct object of the imitation here. But in all the best dramas, and in Shakspeare above all, how obvious it is, that the form of speaking, whether it be in soliloquy or dialogue, is only a medium, and often a highly artificial one, for putting the reader or spectator into possession of that knowledge of the inner structure and workings of mind in a character, which he could otherwise never have arrived at in that form of composition by any gift short of intuition. We do here as we...