Table-talk; or, Original essays, المجلد 2H. Colburn, 1824 |
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... Actors ought to sit in the Boxes 261 Essay XIII . - On the Disadvantages of intellectual Superiority · Essay XIV , -On Patronage and Puffing . • Essay XV . - On the Knowledge of Character . Essay XVI . - On the Picturesque and Ideal ...
... Actors ought to sit in the Boxes 261 Essay XIII . - On the Disadvantages of intellectual Superiority · Essay XIV , -On Patronage and Puffing . • Essay XV . - On the Knowledge of Character . Essay XVI . - On the Picturesque and Ideal ...
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... actor whose name does not appear in great letters ? All others are counterfeits - men " of no mark or likelihood . " This was what made the Jackalls of the North so eager to prove that I had been turned out of the Edinburgh Review . It ...
... actor whose name does not appear in great letters ? All others are counterfeits - men " of no mark or likelihood . " This was what made the Jackalls of the North so eager to prove that I had been turned out of the Edinburgh Review . It ...
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... actor leaves the stage , men's eyes are idly bent on him that enters next " . -so it is here . - Whether this state of the press is not a serious abuse and a violent encroachment in the republic of letters , is more than I shall pretend ...
... actor leaves the stage , men's eyes are idly bent on him that enters next " . -so it is here . - Whether this state of the press is not a serious abuse and a violent encroachment in the republic of letters , is more than I shall pretend ...
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... actors and actresses , a huddled phantasmagoria of feathers , spangles , floods of light , and oceans of sound float before their morbid sense , which they paint in the style of Ancient Pistol . Not a glimpse can you get of the merits ...
... actors and actresses , a huddled phantasmagoria of feathers , spangles , floods of light , and oceans of sound float before their morbid sense , which they paint in the style of Ancient Pistol . Not a glimpse can you get of the merits ...
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... acting without concert or responsibility , on the spur of the occasion , and giving way to their in- stantaneous impulses and honest anger ? Mobs , in fact , then , are almost always right in their S feelings , and often in their ...
... acting without concert or responsibility , on the spur of the occasion , and giving way to their in- stantaneous impulses and honest anger ? Mobs , in fact , then , are almost always right in their S feelings , and often in their ...
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الصفحة 29 - Purification in the old law did save, And such, as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind. Her face was...
الصفحة 26 - CROMWELL, our chief of men, who through a cloud Not of war only, but detractions rude, Guided by faith and matchless fortitude, To peace and truth thy glorious way hast ploughed...
الصفحة 225 - DUKE'S PALACE. [Enter DUKE, CURIO, LORDS; MUSICIANS attending.] DUKE. If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die.— That strain again;— it had a dying fall; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.— Enough; no more; 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
الصفحة 62 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! Heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life ; then when there hath been thrown Wit able enough to justify the town For three days past ; wit that might warrant be For the whole City to talk foolishly Till that were cancell'd ; and when that was gone, We left an air behind us, which alone...
الصفحة 21 - Saturn laugh' d and leap'd with him. Yet nor the lays of birds nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odour and in hue Could make me any summer's story tell, Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew; Nor did I wonder at the...
الصفحة 27 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones...
الصفحة 27 - O'er all the Italian fields, where still doth sway The triple Tyrant ; that from these may grow A hundredfold, who, having learnt thy way, Early may fly the Babylonian woe.
الصفحة 29 - The lily and rose, that neither sowed nor spun. What neat repast shall feast us, light and choice, Of Attic taste, with wine, whence we may rise To hear the lute well touched, or artful voice Warble immortal notes and Tuscan air? He who of those delights can judge, and spare To interpose them oft, is not unwise.
الصفحة 43 - The incognito of an inn is one of its striking privileges — " lord of one's-self, uncumber'd with a name." Oh ! it is great to shake off the trammels of the world and of public opinion — to lose our importunate, tormenting, everlasting personal identity in the elements of nature...
الصفحة 52 - ... to the facilities of conversation in those who had been abroad. In fact, the time we have spent there is both delightful, and in one sense instructive; but it appears to be cut out of our substantial, downright existence, and never to join kindly on to it. We are not the same, but another, and perhaps more enviable individual, all the time we are out of our own country. We are lost to ourselves, as well as our friends. So the poet somewhat quaintly sings: Out of my country and myself I go.