Literary and Graphical Illustrations of Shakspeare, and the British Drama: Comprising an Historical View of the Origin and Improvement of the English Stage, and a Series of Critical and Descriptive Notices of Upwards of One Hundred of the Most Celebrated Tragedies, Comedies, Operas, and Farces. Embellished with More Than Two Hundred Engravings on WoodMaurice and Company, and pub. by Hurst, Chance and E. Wilson, 1831 - 204 Seiten |
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... persons without some opposi- tion ; since in , 1378 , the scholars or choristers of St. Paul's School , pre- sented a petition to Richard II . , praying him to prohibit some ignorant and inexpert persons from acting the History of the ...
... persons without some opposi- tion ; since in , 1378 , the scholars or choristers of St. Paul's School , pre- sented a petition to Richard II . , praying him to prohibit some ignorant and inexpert persons from acting the History of the ...
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... person present at a play . The greater part of the performers , therefore , took up arms for the King ; and though in the winter of 1648 some of them ventured to act at the Cockpit , they were soon inter- rupted by the soldiers , who ...
... person present at a play . The greater part of the performers , therefore , took up arms for the King ; and though in the winter of 1648 some of them ventured to act at the Cockpit , they were soon inter- rupted by the soldiers , who ...
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... persons died near London . Most of the original mate- rials of the story seem likewise to point to the same period , as an imitation of a passage in the old play of King John , 1591 , 4to .; the incident of Valentine joining the robbers ...
... persons died near London . Most of the original mate- rials of the story seem likewise to point to the same period , as an imitation of a passage in the old play of King John , 1591 , 4to .; the incident of Valentine joining the robbers ...
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... persons in the sixteenth century , their general resemblance is still felt to be true to nature . The chief objections which have been made to this Comedy , are , that too little interest is excited by the love or the disappointment of ...
... persons in the sixteenth century , their general resemblance is still felt to be true to nature . The chief objections which have been made to this Comedy , are , that too little interest is excited by the love or the disappointment of ...
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... person and follies of Falstaff . From these Shakspeare adopted the name and character , but from the advance of Protestantism , or Elizabeth's command that the former should be altered out of regard to some of the martyr's descendants ...
... person and follies of Falstaff . From these Shakspeare adopted the name and character , but from the advance of Protestantism , or Elizabeth's command that the former should be altered out of regard to some of the martyr's descendants ...
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Seite 33 - All murder'd : for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Seite 63 - Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand ? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight ? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain ? I see thee yet, in form as palpable As this which now I draw.
Seite 45 - O God ! methinks it were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain : To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point...
Seite 21 - Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven ; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot ; And thereby hangs a tale.
Seite 69 - I will in Cassio's lodging lose this napkin, And let him find it. Trifles light as air, Are, to the jealous, confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ.
Seite 31 - For heaven's sake, Hubert, let me not be bound ! Nay, hear me, Hubert ! — drive these men away, And I will sit as quiet as a lamb ; I will not stir, nor wince, nor speak a word, Nor look upon the iron angerly :5 Thrust but these men away, and I'll forgive you, Whatever torment you do put me to.
Seite 154 - Be to her virtues very kind ; Be to her faults a little blind ; Let all her ways be unconfin'd ; And clap your padlock — on her mind.
Seite 100 - Dr. Swift had been observing once to Mr. Gay, what an odd pretty sort of a thing a Newgate Pastoral might make. Gay was inclined to try at such a thing for some time; but afterwards thought it would be better to write a comedy on the same plan. This was what gave rise to The Beggar's Opera.
Seite 64 - The younger sort take much delight in Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis ; but his Lucrece, and his tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmarke, have it in them to please the wiser sort, 1598.
Seite 40 - How would it have joyed brave Talbot (the terror of the French) to think that after he had lain two hundred years in his tomb, he should triumph again on the stage, and have his bones new embalmed with the tears of ten thousand spectators at least (at several times) who in the tragedian that represents his person, imagine they behold him fresh bleeding...