The Drama: Or, Theatrical Pocket Magazine, Том 1T. and J. Elvey., 1821 Wholly dedicated to the stage, and containing original dramatic biography, essays, criticisms, poetry, reviews ... with occasional notices of the country theatres, the whole forming a complete critical and biographical illustration of the British stage. |
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... death.— -Oh ! are you come ? ” Were given with electric effect . Indeed if we take this per- formance " With all its imperfections on its head , " we must allow that since the days of Garrick " the techy choleric old king fourscore ...
... death.— -Oh ! are you come ? ” Were given with electric effect . Indeed if we take this per- formance " With all its imperfections on its head , " we must allow that since the days of Garrick " the techy choleric old king fourscore ...
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... death , receiving a dreadful kick in the ancle ; in making a desperate effort to stoop down to rub it , finding your hand in the coat pocket of the man who stands opposite to you , and gradually with- drawing it with indescribable ...
... death , receiving a dreadful kick in the ancle ; in making a desperate effort to stoop down to rub it , finding your hand in the coat pocket of the man who stands opposite to you , and gradually with- drawing it with indescribable ...
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... death of King William's Queen Mary . " But in this , as in many other facts , he is inaccurate ; for it appears from an agreement entered into by Dr. D'Áve- nant , Charles Hart , Thomas Betterton , and others , dated Oct. 14 , 1681 ...
... death of King William's Queen Mary . " But in this , as in many other facts , he is inaccurate ; for it appears from an agreement entered into by Dr. D'Áve- nant , Charles Hart , Thomas Betterton , and others , dated Oct. 14 , 1681 ...
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... death of his lady , to the borders of Hampshire . His family consisted of two sons , and a young lady , the daughter of a friend lately deceased , whom he adopted as his own child . This lady , being singularly beautiful , as well as ...
... death of his lady , to the borders of Hampshire . His family consisted of two sons , and a young lady , the daughter of a friend lately deceased , whom he adopted as his own child . This lady , being singularly beautiful , as well as ...
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... death reached him ; and he pub- lickly took that occasion , both to express his own sorrow , and to celebrate the merits of the deceased . He declared that during the whole course of their acquaintance his bro- ther - in - law had not ...
... death reached him ; and he pub- lickly took that occasion , both to express his own sorrow , and to celebrate the merits of the deceased . He declared that during the whole course of their acquaintance his bro- ther - in - law had not ...
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Сторінка 171 - And all amid them stood the tree of life, High eminent, blooming ambrosial fruit Of vegetable gold; and next to life Our death the tree of knowledge grew fast by, Knowledge of good bought dear by knowing ill.
Сторінка 24 - Caesar carelessly but nod on him. He had a fever when he was in Spain, And when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did shake : — 'tis true, this god did shake.
Сторінка 237 - I have heard That guilty creatures sitting at a play Have by the very cunning of the scene Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaimed their malefactions ; For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.
Сторінка 390 - Shakespeare was inspiration indeed ; he is not so much an imitator as an instrument of Nature ; and it is not so just to say that he speaks from her as that she speaks through him.
Сторінка 385 - WHEN Learning's triumph o'er her barbarous foes First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakspeare rose; Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagined new : Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.
Сторінка 81 - See, what a grace was seated on this brow; Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury, New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; A combination, and a form, indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.
Сторінка 110 - Not what we ail'd, yet something we did ail ; And yet were well, and yet we were not well, And what was our disease we could not tell. Then would we kiss, then sigh, then look. And thus In that first garden of our simpleness We spent our childhood : but when years began To reap the fruit of knowledge, ah, how then Would she with graver looks, with sweet stern brow, Check my presumption and my forwardness ; Yet still would give me flowers, still would me show What she would have me, yet not have me...
Сторінка 117 - I speak to Time and to Eternity, Of which I grow a portion, not to man. Ye elements ! in which to be resolved I hasten, let my voice be as a spirit Upon you ! Ye blue waves ! which bore my banner, Ye winds ! which...
Сторінка 328 - The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, the important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome.
Сторінка 182 - The house is shown by a garrulous old lady in a frosty red face, lighted up by a cold blue anxious eye, and garnished with artificial locks of flaxen hair, curling from under an exceedingly dirty cap.