Cumberland's British Theatre: With Remarks, Biographical and Critical, Volume 6George Daniel, John Cumberland J. Cumberland, 1826 - English drama |
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... means em- ployed are almost ludicrous , the impression they excite is truly ap palling . The well - known remark , that there is but one step from the ridiculous to the sublime , never met with a better illustration than in this ...
... means em- ployed are almost ludicrous , the impression they excite is truly ap palling . The well - known remark , that there is but one step from the ridiculous to the sublime , never met with a better illustration than in this ...
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... means would grant continuance : Nor do I now make moan to be abridg'd From such a noble rate ; but my chief care Is , to come fairly off from the great debts , Wherein my time , something too prodigal , Hath left me gag'd . To you ...
... means would grant continuance : Nor do I now make moan to be abridg'd From such a noble rate ; but my chief care Is , to come fairly off from the great debts , Wherein my time , something too prodigal , Hath left me gag'd . To you ...
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... means To hold a rival place with one of them , I have a mind presages me such thrift , That I should questionless be ... mean happiness , therefore , to be seated in the mean ; superfluity comes sooner by white hairs , but competency ...
... means To hold a rival place with one of them , I have a mind presages me such thrift , That I should questionless be ... mean happiness , therefore , to be seated in the mean ; superfluity comes sooner by white hairs , but competency ...
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... means are in supposition ; he hath an argosy bound to Tripolis , another to the Indies ; I under- stand moreover ... mean pirates ; and then , there is the peril of waters , winds , and rocks ; the man is , notwith- standing , sufficient ...
... means are in supposition ; he hath an argosy bound to Tripolis , another to the Indies ; I under- stand moreover ... mean pirates ; and then , there is the peril of waters , winds , and rocks ; the man is , notwith- standing , sufficient ...
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... mean , my casements ; Let not the sound of shallow foppery enter My sober house . By Jacob's staff , I swear , I have no mind of feasting forth to - night : But I will go . - Go you before me , sirrah ; - Say , I will come . Laun . ( R ...
... mean , my casements ; Let not the sound of shallow foppery enter My sober house . By Jacob's staff , I swear , I have no mind of feasting forth to - night : But I will go . - Go you before me , sirrah ; - Say , I will come . Laun . ( R ...
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Page 54 - Nay, take my life and all, pardon not that : You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house ; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live.
Page 20 - Jewish gaberdine, And all for use of that which is mine own. Well then, it now appears you need my help : Go to, then ; you come to me, and you say ' Shylock, we would have moneys...
Page 36 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age. and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crash of worlds.
Page 11 - In sooth, I know not why I am so sad : It wearies me ; you say it wearies you ; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn ; And such a want-wit sadness makes of me. That I have much ado to know myself.
Page 13 - I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano ; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one.
Page 50 - I'll kneel down, And ask of thee forgiveness. So we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news ; and we'll talk with them too, Who loses, and who wins ; who's in, who's out ; And take...
Page 1 - To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart, To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold...
Page 36 - Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity ! thou pleasing, dreadful thought ! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes and changes must we pass ! The wide, the unbounded prospect lies before me ; But shadows, clouds, and darkness rest upon it.
Page 18 - Yes, to smell pork ; to eat of the habitation which your prophet the Nazarite conjured the devil into. I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following ; but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you.
Page 14 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.