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... tion due to the philan- thropy and piety of Edward Alleyn . It must never be lost sight of , by any one who wishes to form a clear notion of the elder English drama , that the female parts were invariably acted by boys or young men . No ...
... tion due to the philan- thropy and piety of Edward Alleyn . It must never be lost sight of , by any one who wishes to form a clear notion of the elder English drama , that the female parts were invariably acted by boys or young men . No ...
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... tion , delicate anatomy of character , profound exhi- bition of human passion ; but the most valuable element of scenic success , viz . , dramatic effect , may be entirely absent . This precious quality may be possessed by a writer with ...
... tion , delicate anatomy of character , profound exhi- bition of human passion ; but the most valuable element of scenic success , viz . , dramatic effect , may be entirely absent . This precious quality may be possessed by a writer with ...
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... tion of ancient civic festivity . His earliest work , The Arraignment of Paris , was printed anonymously in 1584. His most celebrated dramatic works were the Davia and Bethsabe , and Absolom , in which there are great richness and ...
... tion of ancient civic festivity . His earliest work , The Arraignment of Paris , was printed anonymously in 1584. His most celebrated dramatic works were the Davia and Bethsabe , and Absolom , in which there are great richness and ...
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... tion of posterity . In these establishments provision is always made for the children of the burgesses of the town ; and to the old grammar - school in Strat- ford , founded in the reign of Edward IV . , it is quite certain that John ...
... tion of posterity . In these establishments provision is always made for the children of the burgesses of the town ; and to the old grammar - school in Strat- ford , founded in the reign of Edward IV . , it is quite certain that John ...
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... tion , the romantic incidents connected with his leaving Stratford and embracing the theatrical ca- reer are to be explained in a different and much less improbable manner . It is quite certain that he left his native town in 1586 , at ...
... tion , the romantic incidents connected with his leaving Stratford and embracing the theatrical ca- reer are to be explained in a different and much less improbable manner . It is quite certain that he left his native town in 1586 , at ...
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Page 591 - For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales ; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'da ghastly dew From the nations...
Page 598 - THE shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device, Excelsior! His brow was sad; his eye beneath, Flashed like a falchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior...
Page 587 - The gay will laugh When thou art gone; the solemn brood of care . Plod on, and each one as before will chase His favorite phantom; yet all these shall leave Their mirth and their employments, and shall come, And make their bed with thee.
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Page 563 - I REMEMBER. I REMEMBER, I remember, The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn : He never came a wink too soon, Nor brought too long a day ; But now, I often wish the night Had borne my breath away. I REMEMBER, I REMEMBER.
Page 559 - Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprang and stood In brighter light and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood ? Alas! they all are in their graves; the gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds, with the fair and good of ours. The rain is falling where they lie, but the cold November rain Calls not from out the gloomy earth the lovely ones again.
Page 566 - The splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story: The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle ; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Page 591 - Slowly comes a hungry people, as a lion, creeping nigher, Glares at one that nods and winks behind a slowly-dying fire. Yet I doubt not thro' the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widen'd with the process of the suns.
Page 589 - As the husband is, the wife is : thou art mated with a clown, And the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down. He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.