Ueber dramatische Kunst und Litteratur, Volume 3

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Mohr und Winter, 1817 - Drama - 341 pages

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Page 30 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
Page 301 - And thus still doing, thus he pass'd along. Duch. Alas ! poor Richard ! where rides he the while ? York. As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious : Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes Did scowl on Richard ; no man cried, God save him...
Page 59 - Joys in their joy, and trembles at their rage : Yet so to temper passion, that our ears Take pleasure in their pain ; and eyes in tears Both weep and smile...

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