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... racter must be esteemed , qualities of yet a higher and volumes of sentiment and feeling into one nervous innocence ... racter , indeed , affords very ample opportunities of display . Nothing could be more lovely or more interesting than ...
... racter must be esteemed , qualities of yet a higher and volumes of sentiment and feeling into one nervous innocence ... racter , indeed , affords very ample opportunities of display . Nothing could be more lovely or more interesting than ...
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... racter in the earlier scenes , is quite at variance with his general style of acting . It is in the wildness of Octaviun , the pride of Coriolanus , the malice of Shylock , or the lofty patriotism of Lucius Junius , that the great ...
... racter in the earlier scenes , is quite at variance with his general style of acting . It is in the wildness of Octaviun , the pride of Coriolanus , the malice of Shylock , or the lofty patriotism of Lucius Junius , that the great ...
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... racter in this particular instance . He could Plays of Shakespear , Massinger and Beaumont , the blood there are Vampyres who waste the heart and bave thrown a caustic severity into this scene , which and Fletcher , & c . 1 am , Sir ...
... racter in this particular instance . He could Plays of Shakespear , Massinger and Beaumont , the blood there are Vampyres who waste the heart and bave thrown a caustic severity into this scene , which and Fletcher , & c . 1 am , Sir ...
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... racter , or a more favourable one of his judgment and taste . There is a tone of fairness and indulgence - and It affords us some gratification to find the opinion of gentleness and philanthropy so unaffectedly diffused we have long ...
... racter , or a more favourable one of his judgment and taste . There is a tone of fairness and indulgence - and It affords us some gratification to find the opinion of gentleness and philanthropy so unaffectedly diffused we have long ...
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... racter of the Foreman , who each gave him ance , and had wholly supported his family keep the Jury . This trial came on in the an excellent character . ever since ; but to get him cleared of the morning , and the Judge having sat till ...
... racter of the Foreman , who each gave him ance , and had wholly supported his family keep the Jury . This trial came on in the an excellent character . ever since ; but to get him cleared of the morning , and the Judge having sat till ...
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Page 60 - Of the invisible ; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made ; each zone Obeys thee ; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Page 60 - And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war: These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar.
Page 60 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean — roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy...
Page 60 - Dark-heaving : boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of Eternity — the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made ; each zone Obeys thee ; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless...
Page 159 - I'll leave you till night: you are welcome to Elsinore. Ros. Good my lord ! [Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Ham. Ay, so, God be wi' you : — Now I am alone. O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I ! Is it not monstrous, that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit, That, from her working, all his visage wann'd ; Tears in his eyes, distraction in's aspect, A broken voice, and his whole function suiting With forms to his conceit ?...
Page 60 - Roll on thou deep, and dark blue Ocean, roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain, Man marks the earth with ruin— his control Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed...
Page 166 - And down she suck'd with her the whirling wave, Like one who grapples with his enemy, And strives to strangle him before he die.
Page 225 - What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her/ What would he do, Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have...
Page 114 - I am always of easy faith in such matters, and am ever willing to be deceived, where the deceit is pleasant and costs nothing. I am therefore a ready believer in relics, legends, and local anecdotes of goblins and great men ; and would advise all travellers who travel for their gratification to be the same. What is it to us, whether these stories be true or false, so long as we can persuade ourselves into the belief of them, and enjoy all the charm of the reality ? There is nothing like resolute...
Page 138 - I have always observed that the visitors to the abbey remained longest about them. A kinder and fonder feeling takes place of that cold curiosity or vague admiration with which they gaze on the splendid monuments of the great and the heroic. They linger about these as about the tombs of friends and companions ; for indeed there is something of companionship between the author and the reader.