The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Volume 21810 A drama is appended to each number of v. 1-2 |
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... scene alone of it was supported by three hundred and sixty co- lumns of marble , each thirty - eight feet in height , and was adorn- ed with three thousand majestic statues of brass . Pliny says of this celebrated edifice , that it ...
... scene alone of it was supported by three hundred and sixty co- lumns of marble , each thirty - eight feet in height , and was adorn- ed with three thousand majestic statues of brass . Pliny says of this celebrated edifice , that it ...
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... scene , and the battle with Richmond , in the tragedy of Ri- chard III . It is the custom of youths , called spouters , to select scenes , each in turn , and such as each supposes himself best qualified to appear in with advantage ...
... scene , and the battle with Richmond , in the tragedy of Ri- chard III . It is the custom of youths , called spouters , to select scenes , each in turn , and such as each supposes himself best qualified to appear in with advantage ...
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... Scenes the most lewd and infamous ; expressions obscene and disgusting ; immo- rality , profaneness , and blasphemy , were listened to not only with patience but delight ! This may be fully proved by reading those plays ( many of them ...
... Scenes the most lewd and infamous ; expressions obscene and disgusting ; immo- rality , profaneness , and blasphemy , were listened to not only with patience but delight ! This may be fully proved by reading those plays ( many of them ...
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... scene of beauty , fecundity and natural opulence . A varied picturesque wildness pervades every change of scene ; and in each nature exhibits herself in all her splendour , as if intent upon realis- ing all the wild and excursive ...
... scene of beauty , fecundity and natural opulence . A varied picturesque wildness pervades every change of scene ; and in each nature exhibits herself in all her splendour , as if intent upon realis- ing all the wild and excursive ...
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... scenes , his performance is , nevertheless , take it for all in all , the most perfect representation of the crook ... scene , that " The old political post - horses were all broke down and done up . " ANECDOTE FROM HARRIOTT . The ...
... scenes , his performance is , nevertheless , take it for all in all , the most perfect representation of the crook ... scene , that " The old political post - horses were all broke down and done up . " ANECDOTE FROM HARRIOTT . The ...
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Page 124 - Ring out, ye crystal spheres ! Once bless our human ears, If ye have power to touch our senses so; And let your silver chime Move in melodious time ; And let the base of Heaven's deep organ blow; And with your ninefold harmony Make up full consort to the angelic symphony.
Page 124 - Sirens' harmony, That sit upon the nine infolded spheres, And sing to those that hold the vital shears, And turn the adamantine spindle round On which the fate of gods and men is wound. Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie, To lull the daughters of Necessity, And keep unsteady Nature to her law, And the low world in measured motion draw After the heavenly tune, which none can hear Of human mould with gross unpurged ear.
Page 411 - 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.
Page 58 - And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of link-ed sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running ; Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of Harmony : That Orpheus...
Page 194 - No creature could be more grateful than my patient after his recovery ; a sentiment which he most significantly expressed, by licking my hand, first the back of it, then the palm, then every finger separately, then between all the fingers, as if anxious to leave no part of it unsaluted ; a ceremony which he never performed but once again upon a similar occasion.
Page 156 - S'OME ask'd me where the Rubies grew, And nothing I did say ; But with my finger pointed to The lips of Julia.
Page 237 - ... studied chords of some choice composer, sometimes the lute, or soft organ stop waiting on elegant voices either to religious, martial, or civil ditties; which if wise men and prophets be not extremely out," have a great power over dispositions and manners, to smooth and make them gentle from rustic harshness and distempered passions.
Page 128 - I never addressed myself in the language of decency and friendship to a woman, whether civilized or savage, without receiving a decent and friendly answer. With man it has often been otherwise.
Page 166 - Shakespeare has no heroes; his scenes are occupied only by men, who act and speak as the reader thinks that he should himself have spoken or acted on the same occasion: even where the agency is supernatural, the dialogue is level with life.
Page 194 - ... my knee. He was ill three days, during which time I nursed him, kept him apart from his fellows, that they might not molest him (for, like many other wild animals, they persecute one of their own species that is sick,) and by constant care, and trying him with a variety of herbs, restored him to perfect health. No creature...