The Works of Charles Lamb: In Two Parts, Том 2C. and J. Ollier, 1818 |
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... poor unassisted senses , I appeal to every one that has seen Othello played , whe- ther he did not , on the contrary , sink Othello's mind in his colour ; whether he did not find something extremely revolting in the courtship and wedded ...
... poor unassisted senses , I appeal to every one that has seen Othello played , whe- ther he did not , on the contrary , sink Othello's mind in his colour ; whether he did not find something extremely revolting in the courtship and wedded ...
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... poor Adamites , may be said to spring from the tree of knowledge itself , and from the rotten kernels of that fatal apple . - Howell's Letters . and touch that familiarly , which would be death to CONTEMPORARY WITH SHAKSPEARE . 41.
... poor Adamites , may be said to spring from the tree of knowledge itself , and from the rotten kernels of that fatal apple . - Howell's Letters . and touch that familiarly , which would be death to CONTEMPORARY WITH SHAKSPEARE . 41.
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... poor man on our stage is always a gentleman , he may be known by a peculiar neatness of apparel , and by wearing black . Our delicacy in fact forbids the dramatizing of distress at all . It is never shewn in its essential properties ...
... poor man on our stage is always a gentleman , he may be known by a peculiar neatness of apparel , and by wearing black . Our delicacy in fact forbids the dramatizing of distress at all . It is never shewn in its essential properties ...
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... poor , deformed , and ignorant ; the terror of vil- lages , herself amenable to a justice . That should be a hardy sheriff , with the power of the county at his heels , that would lay hands upon the Weird Sisters . They are of another ...
... poor , deformed , and ignorant ; the terror of vil- lages , herself amenable to a justice . That should be a hardy sheriff , with the power of the county at his heels , that would lay hands upon the Weird Sisters . They are of another ...
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... poor per- verted reason of Giovanni and Annabella , in the play * which stands at the head of the modern collection of the works of this author , we discern traces of that fiery particle , which , in the irre- gular starting from out ...
... poor per- verted reason of Giovanni and Annabella , in the play * which stands at the head of the modern collection of the works of this author , we discern traces of that fiery particle , which , in the irre- gular starting from out ...
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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 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.
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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.
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