A View of the English Stage: Or, A Series of Dramatic CriticismsRobert Stodart, 1818 - 461 páginas Collected dramatic criticism by William Hazlitt, one of the highest regarded critic and essayists in the history of the English language. |
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Página xiii
... character , in Mandane , where she sang the delicious air , ' If o'er the cruel tyrant , Love ' ( so as it can never be sung again ) , in Love in a Village , where the scene opened with her and Miss Matthews in a painted garden of roses ...
... character , in Mandane , where she sang the delicious air , ' If o'er the cruel tyrant , Love ' ( so as it can never be sung again ) , in Love in a Village , where the scene opened with her and Miss Matthews in a painted garden of roses ...
Página xiv
... character of Polly . The play itself is among the most popular of our dramas , and one which the public are always ... characters , and incidents , are in general of the lowest and most disgusting kind ; but the author , by the ...
... character of Polly . The play itself is among the most popular of our dramas , and one which the public are always ... characters , and incidents , are in general of the lowest and most disgusting kind ; but the author , by the ...
Página xxiii
... character . ' He added , ' There was a most excellent remark made upon his acting it in the Examiner ( I think it was ) , That he looked as if he had the gallows in one eye , and a pretty girl in the other . ' I said nothing , but was ...
... character . ' He added , ' There was a most excellent remark made upon his acting it in the Examiner ( I think it was ) , That he looked as if he had the gallows in one eye , and a pretty girl in the other . ' I said nothing , but was ...
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... character than with the morose , sullen , inward , inveterate , inflexible malignity of Shylock . The character of Shylock is that of a man brooding over one idea , that of its wrongs , and bent on one unalterable purpose , that of ...
... character than with the morose , sullen , inward , inveterate , inflexible malignity of Shylock . The character of Shylock is that of a man brooding over one idea , that of its wrongs , and bent on one unalterable purpose , that of ...
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... character of Shylock . It would be endless to point out individual beauties , where almost every passage was received with equal and deserved applause . We thought , in one or two instances , the pauses in the voice were too long , and ...
... character of Shylock . It would be endless to point out individual beauties , where almost every passage was received with equal and deserved applause . We thought , in one or two instances , the pauses in the voice were too long , and ...
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A View of the English Stage: Or, a Series of Dramatic Criticisms William Hazlitt Vista completa - 1821 |
A View of the English Stage: Or, A Series of Dramatic Criticisms William Hazlitt Vista completa - 1906 |
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Página 217 - Pray, do not mock me : I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less ; And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind. Methinks I should know you, and know this man ; Yet I am doubtful...
Página 53 - 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.
Página 211 - Hear, nature, hear ; dear goddess, hear ! — Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend To make this creature fruitful ! Into her womb convey sterility ! Dry up in her the organs of increase ; And from her derogate body never spring A babe to honour her ! If she must teem, Create her child of spleen ; that it may live, And be a thwart disnatured torment to her...
Página 217 - 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. Do not laugh at me; For, as I am a man, I think this lady To be my child Cordelia.
Página 32 - 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.
Página 216 - 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...
Página 193 - Man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven As make the angels weep.
Página 152 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together...
Página 82 - All school-days' 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.
Página 88 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become 120 A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods...