Crayon Sketches, 2. kötetConner and Cooke, 1833 |
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1 - 5 találat összesen 43 találatból.
26. oldal
... actors , and modern authors . They discuss in the most flippant aad self - satisfied manner a question involving the most vexing and perplex- ing difficulties , and pass their silly censures and give their witless advice upon a subject ...
... actors , and modern authors . They discuss in the most flippant aad self - satisfied manner a question involving the most vexing and perplex- ing difficulties , and pass their silly censures and give their witless advice upon a subject ...
28. oldal
... acting plays ; while his more imaginative ones , his Tempest and Midsummer Night's Dream , are so much heathen Greek to them ; nay , one whom we knew , that pretended a most overweening admiration for the immortal bard , ac- tually did ...
... acting plays ; while his more imaginative ones , his Tempest and Midsummer Night's Dream , are so much heathen Greek to them ; nay , one whom we knew , that pretended a most overweening admiration for the immortal bard , ac- tually did ...
32. oldal
... actor who has not as yet received the stamp of public approbation . It is really amusing at times to sit in a theatre and wit- ness the behaviour of one of these gentry - to see the air of critical primness which he assumes on the ...
... actor who has not as yet received the stamp of public approbation . It is really amusing at times to sit in a theatre and wit- ness the behaviour of one of these gentry - to see the air of critical primness which he assumes on the ...
97. oldal
... actors have since inconsiderately followed . But , alas ! for the dashing gallants and wits that glitter in the pages of Wycherly , Congrève , Van- burgh , and Farquhar . Their day , it would seem , is gone for ever ; and what have we ...
... actors have since inconsiderately followed . But , alas ! for the dashing gallants and wits that glitter in the pages of Wycherly , Congrève , Van- burgh , and Farquhar . Their day , it would seem , is gone for ever ; and what have we ...
103. oldal
... actor are never attempted to be copi- ed ; they are too difficult ; but any unfortunate pe- culiarity or bad and vicious habit is seized upon with avidity and fondly cherished . Because John Kemble was troubled with an asthmatic ...
... actor are never attempted to be copi- ed ; they are too difficult ; but any unfortunate pe- culiarity or bad and vicious habit is seized upon with avidity and fondly cherished . Because John Kemble was troubled with an asthmatic ...
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223. oldal - O Caledonia ! stern and wild, meet nurse for a poetic child, • land of brown heath and shaggy wood, land of the mountain and the flood, land of my sires!
25. oldal - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes
178. oldal - I'd have you do it ever : when you sing, I'd have you buy and sell so ; so give alms ; Pray so ; and for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too. When you do dance, I wish you A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that ; move still, still so, and own No other function.
106. oldal - 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 proclaim'd their malefactions; For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.
230. oldal - And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with nature's tear-drops as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, - alas! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass...
231. oldal - The Summer dawn's reflected hue To purple changed Loch Katrine blue ; Mildly and soft the western breeze Just kissed the lake, just stirred the trees, And the pleased lake, like maiden coy, Trembled but dimpled not for joy...
221. oldal - Time rolls his ceaseless course. The race of yore, Who danced our infancy upon their knee, And told our marvelling boyhood legends store, Of their strange ventures happ'd by land or sea, How are they blotted from the things that be...
17. oldal - Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these ? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this ! Take physic, pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just.
68. oldal - ... the birds of the air, the beasts of the field, and the inhabitants of the water, that they might be borne to her wherever hid.
129. oldal - There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am arm'd so strong in honesty, That they pass by me as the idle wind, Which I respect not.