The Works of Charles Lamb: In Two Parts, Том 2C. and J. Ollier, 1818 |
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... less calculated for performance on a stage , than those of almost any other dramatist whatever . Their distinguishing excellence is a reason that they should be so . There is so much in them , which comes not under the province of ...
... less calculated for performance on a stage , than those of almost any other dramatist whatever . Their distinguishing excellence is a reason that they should be so . There is so much in them , which comes not under the province of ...
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... less difficult to write or act than is thought , it is a trick easy to be attained , it is but rising or falling a note or two in the voice , a whisper with a significant forboding look to announce its approach , and so contagious the ...
... less difficult to write or act than is thought , it is a trick easy to be attained , it is but rising or falling a note or two in the voice , a whisper with a significant forboding look to announce its approach , and so contagious the ...
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... Calista , and Isabella , and Euphrasia , are they less liked than Imogen , or than Juliet , or than Desdemona ? Are they not spoken of and remembered in the same way ? Is not the female performer as great 18 ON SHAKSPEARE'S TRAGEDIES .
... Calista , and Isabella , and Euphrasia , are they less liked than Imogen , or than Juliet , or than Desdemona ? Are they not spoken of and remembered in the same way ? Is not the female performer as great 18 ON SHAKSPEARE'S TRAGEDIES .
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... less unwor- thy of a white woman's fancy ) —it is the perfect triumph of virtue over accidents , of the imagina- tion over the senses . She sees Othello's colour in his mind . But upon the stage , when the imagination is no longer the ...
... less unwor- thy of a white woman's fancy ) —it is the perfect triumph of virtue over accidents , of the imagina- tion over the senses . She sees Othello's colour in his mind . But upon the stage , when the imagination is no longer the ...
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... less interest- ing and innocent first settlers . The subject of Scenery is closely connected with that of the Dresses , which are so anxiously attended to on our stage . I remember the last time I saw Macbeth played , the discrepancy I ...
... less interest- ing and innocent first settlers . The subject of Scenery is closely connected with that of the Dresses , which are so anxiously attended to on our stage . I remember the last time I saw Macbeth played , the discrepancy I ...
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1st Footman 1st Gentleman 1st Lady 1st Waiter 2d Footman 2d Gentleman 2d Lady 2d Waiter 4th Lady 5th Waiter acting appetite beauty Belvil better character countenance creature crime curiosity deformity delight express eye of mind face fancy feel genius Gin Lane give Hamlet hang heart Hogarth Hogsflesh honour horror human humour images imagination Industry and Idle innocence John Tomkins Landlord Lear less look Lord Madam Maid melancholy Melesinda Middleton mind mirth moral Mother Damnable nature ness never old lady Othello passion PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY person PHILIP MASSINGER picture pity plate play pleasure poet poor Rake's Progress Reflector Satires scene seems sense servants Shakspeare shew shewn sion sort soul speak spectators stage suffer sweet Tamburlaine thing THOMAS MIDDLETON thought tion tragedy ture virtue WILLIAM ROWLEY Wither woman wonder
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Сторінка 19 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Сторінка 142 - 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.
Сторінка 37 - Specimens of English Dramatic Poets who lived about the time of Shakspeare...
Сторінка 25 - The greatness of Lear is not in corporal dimension, but in intellectual : the explosions of his passion are terrible as a volcano : they are storms turning up and disclosing to the bottom that sea, his mind, with all its vast riches.
Сторінка 86 - Doctors, and their servants (so that the remnant of the body would not hold out a bone amongst so many hands), take what was left out of the grave, and burnt them to ashes, and cast them into Swift, a neighbouring brook, running hard by. Thus this brook...
Сторінка 64 - 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.
Сторінка 26 - What gesture shall we appropriate to this ? What has the voice or the eye to do with such things ? But the play is beyond all art, as the tamperings with it shew : it is too hard and stony : it must have love-scenes, and a happy ending.
Сторінка 22 - The truth is, the characters of Shakspeare are so much the objects of meditation rather than of interest or curiosity as to their actions, that while we are reading any of his great criminal characters, — Macbeth, Richard, even lago, — we think not so much of the crimes which they commit, as of the ambition, the aspiring spirit, the intellectual activity, which prompts them to overleap these moral fences.
Сторінка 183 - I am no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company; yet in one dream I can compose a whole comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof.
Сторінка 4 - But such is the instantaneous nature of the impressions which we take in at the eye and ear at a playhouse, compared with the slow apprehension often-times of the understanding in reading, that we are apt not only to sink the play-writer in the consideration which we pay to the actor, but even to identify in our minds in a perverse manner the actor with the character which he represents. It is difficult for a frequent play-goer to disembarrass the idea of Hamlet from the person and voice of Mr K[emble]....