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... interest we feel in talking about plays and players ; they are " the brief chron- icles of the time , " the epitome of human life and manners . While we are talking about them , we are thinking about our- selves . They " hold the mirror ...
... interest we feel in talking about plays and players ; they are " the brief chron- icles of the time , " the epitome of human life and manners . While we are talking about them , we are thinking about our- selves . They " hold the mirror ...
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... interest in the character , and such the power of rivetting the attention possessed by this actor , that not the slightest notice was taken of the circumstance , but the whole audience remained bathed in silent tears . The knowledge of ...
... interest in the character , and such the power of rivetting the attention possessed by this actor , that not the slightest notice was taken of the circumstance , but the whole audience remained bathed in silent tears . The knowledge of ...
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... interest of the last scenes of the play , we had fresh cause for admiration . It were in vain , however , to point out particular beauties ; for the research , 1 Richard III , end of Act 1 , Cibber's edition , taken from 3 Henry VI , v ...
... interest of the last scenes of the play , we had fresh cause for admiration . It were in vain , however , to point out particular beauties ; for the research , 1 Richard III , end of Act 1 , Cibber's edition , taken from 3 Henry VI , v ...
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... interest , but every thing is left to time and circumstances . The interest is excited without premeditation or effort , the events succeed each other as matters of course , the characters think , and speak and act just as they would do ...
... interest , but every thing is left to time and circumstances . The interest is excited without premeditation or effort , the events succeed each other as matters of course , the characters think , and speak and act just as they would do ...
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... interest depends not on the action , but on the thoughts - on " that within which passeth show . " 2 Yet , in spite of these difficulties , Mr. Kean's representation of the character had the most brilliant success . It did not indeed ...
... interest depends not on the action , but on the thoughts - on " that within which passeth show . " 2 Yet , in spite of these difficulties , Mr. Kean's representation of the character had the most brilliant success . It did not indeed ...
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Page 66 - Think, my lord ! By heaven, he echoes me. As if there were some monster in his thought Too hideous to be shown.
Page 62 - Ay, there's the point :' — as — to be bold with you — Not to affect many proposed matches Of her own clime, complexion, and degree, Whereto we see in all things nature tends, — Foh ! one may smell in such a will most rank, Foul disproportion, thoughts unnatural...
Page 67 - Dangerous conceits are, in their natures, poisons, Which, at the first, are scarce found to distaste ; But, with a little act upon the blood, Burn like the mines of sulphur.
Page 14 - If folly grow romantic, I must paint it. Come, then, the colours and the ground prepare ! Dip in the rainbow, trick her off in air ; Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.