Crayon Sketches, 2. kötetConner and Cooke, 1833 |
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26. oldal
... taste of the public , and the intellectual depravity of the managers , 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 ...
... taste of the public , and the intellectual depravity of the managers , 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 ...
27. oldal
... offence given to their delicate tastes , when a profitable piece of nonsense happens to be enacted , instead of Shaks- peare or the " sterling English comedies ! " But the best of the joke is , that most of this THE DRAMA AS IT IS . 27.
... offence given to their delicate tastes , when a profitable piece of nonsense happens to be enacted , instead of Shaks- peare or the " sterling English comedies ! " But the best of the joke is , that most of this THE DRAMA AS IT IS . 27.
28. oldal
... taste of the public . " Now we are by no means going so far as to con- tend that the " drama as it is , " is any thing like the " drama as it ought to be : " but we do mean to say , that there is an " infinite deal of nothing , " or ...
... taste of the public . " Now we are by no means going so far as to con- tend that the " drama as it is , " is any thing like the " drama as it ought to be : " but we do mean to say , that there is an " infinite deal of nothing , " or ...
32. oldal
... taste is by no means particularly fastidious , but is capable of embracing all the different species ( not individuals ) of the dramatic family , even the tribe most vilified of all , known by the appellation of melo dramas ; and though ...
... taste is by no means particularly fastidious , but is capable of embracing all the different species ( not individuals ) of the dramatic family , even the tribe most vilified of all , known by the appellation of melo dramas ; and though ...
33. oldal
... taste , that we cannot join in the prevailing hue and cry against gaudy spectacles and splendid scenery , think- ing them very good in their place , and even feel- ing an unbecoming interest in the " dresses and de- corations ...
... taste , that we cannot join in the prevailing hue and cry against gaudy spectacles and splendid scenery , think- ing them very good in their place , and even feel- ing an unbecoming interest in the " dresses and de- corations ...
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actors actress admiration altogether amusing animation appear audience Barnes beauty become better birds Blackwood's Magazine Byron character Clara Fisher cold comedy conceit Creusa delicacy delightful drama Drury-lane effect equal face fair ladies fashion fish folly gentlemen give graceful habit half heart hero or heroine High Holborn Hilson human imitation infinite number IRVING crossed Kemble lady land laugh Liston Macbeth Madame Vestris manner Medea ment merit mind Miss Kelly morning mouth Natty Bumpo nature Newfoundland dog nose ocean Park theatre pass passion Pat O'Connor person physiognomy piece play pleasant pleasure poetry poor present pretty prospect racter ridiculous scene seems to pervade seen sensible Shakspeare shark song species spirit stage stands storm taste theatre thing thou tion Titus Dodds tragedy ture vivacious lady voice vulgar Washington Irving Wheatley word young
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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.