The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Lectures on the English comic writers. A view of the English stage. Dramatic essays from 'The London magazine.'J.M. Dent & Company, 1903 |
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... audience , in his Critique de l'Ecole des Femmes . There is no great harm in these occasional plagiarisms , except that they make one uncomfortable at other times , and distrustful of the originality of the whole . - The Plain Dealer is ...
... audience , in his Critique de l'Ecole des Femmes . There is no great harm in these occasional plagiarisms , except that they make one uncomfortable at other times , and distrustful of the originality of the whole . - The Plain Dealer is ...
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... audience , for every appearance combines to excite and confirm his worst suspicions , while we , who are in the secret , laugh at his ground- banished by a greater knowledge of the world , or by their successful exposure on the stage ...
... audience , for every appearance combines to excite and confirm his worst suspicions , while we , who are in the secret , laugh at his ground- banished by a greater knowledge of the world , or by their successful exposure on the stage ...
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... audience , from being accustomed to the cautious purity of the modern drama , are not very expert in decyphering the equivocal allusion , for which they are not on the look - out . To what is this increased nicety owing ? Was it that ...
... audience , from being accustomed to the cautious purity of the modern drama , are not very expert in decyphering the equivocal allusion , for which they are not on the look - out . To what is this increased nicety owing ? Was it that ...
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... audience remained bathed in silent tears . The knowledge of circumstances like these , serves to keep alive the memory of past excellence , and to stimulate future efforts . It was thought that a work containing a detailed account of ...
... audience remained bathed in silent tears . The knowledge of circumstances like these , serves to keep alive the memory of past excellence , and to stimulate future efforts . It was thought that a work containing a detailed account of ...
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... audience . Perhaps it was the most perfect of any . Notwithstanding the complete success of Mr. Kean in the part of Shylock , we question whether he will not become a greater favourite in other parts . There was a lightness and vigour ...
... audience . Perhaps it was the most perfect of any . Notwithstanding the complete success of Mr. Kean in the part of Shylock , we question whether he will not become a greater favourite in other parts . There was a lightness and vigour ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 512 - Shakspeare, that, take him for all in all, we shall not look upon his like again.
Seite 210 - O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From this world-wearied flesh.
Seite 207 - I have liv'd long enough : my way of life Is fallen into the sear, the yellow leaf : And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses not loud, but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
Seite 55 - Why so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale?
Seite 450 - Methinks I should know you and know this man; yet I am doubtful: for I am mainly ignorant what place this is, and all the skill I have remembers not these garments; nor I know not where I did lodge last night.
Seite 449 - Tom? whom the foul fiend hath led through fire and through flame, through ford and whirlpool, o'er bog and quagmire; that hath laid knives under his pillow, and halters in his pew...
Seite 471 - Man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven As make the angels weep.
Seite 276 - All schooldays' friendship, childhood innocence? We, Hermia, like two artificial gods Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key, As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds Had been incorporate. So we grew together Like to a double cherry, seeming parted But yet an union in partition...
Seite 19 - Wit lying most in the assemblage of Ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant Pictures, and agreeable Visions in the fancy...
Seite 16 - The sun had long since, in the lap Of Thetis, taken out his nap, And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn...