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 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة viii
... principal points of it's rise and improvement . The old Greek Drama appears to have flourished at Constantinople , until the fourth century of the Christian Era ; about which time Gre- gory of Nazianzen , the Patriarch of that city , a ...
... principal points of it's rise and improvement . The old Greek Drama appears to have flourished at Constantinople , until the fourth century of the Christian Era ; about which time Gre- gory of Nazianzen , the Patriarch of that city , a ...
الصفحة ix
... principal churches and cathedrals at certain seasons , with all the attraction and state of choral chaunting , playing upon organs , and ecclesiastical dresses and ornaments . The duration of the exhibition appears to have been ...
... principal churches and cathedrals at certain seasons , with all the attraction and state of choral chaunting , playing upon organs , and ecclesiastical dresses and ornaments . The duration of the exhibition appears to have been ...
الصفحة x
... principal personages of the king- dom . Down to this time it does not positively appear that a drama upon any profane subject , either tragic or comic , had been produced in England ; and even the emblematical and decorative pageants ...
... principal personages of the king- dom . Down to this time it does not positively appear that a drama upon any profane subject , either tragic or comic , had been produced in England ; and even the emblematical and decorative pageants ...
الصفحة xii
... principal early dramatic authors were all scholars . Their taste , however , between 1570 and 1590 , produced a number of those sanguinary and bombastic heroical pieces which were afterwards so much ridiculed : whilst the plot of ...
... principal early dramatic authors were all scholars . Their taste , however , between 1570 and 1590 , produced a number of those sanguinary and bombastic heroical pieces which were afterwards so much ridiculed : whilst the plot of ...
الصفحة xiv
... principal Theatres to the pit and galleries , or scaffolds , was generally 6d . , though in some inferior it was only one penny or two - pence ; yet even in Shakspeare's time the best rooms or boxes were 1s . , and at the Duke's Theatre ...
... principal Theatres to the pit and galleries , or scaffolds , was generally 6d . , though in some inferior it was only one penny or two - pence ; yet even in Shakspeare's time the best rooms or boxes were 1s . , and at the Duke's Theatre ...
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الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...