The Elements of Dramatic Criticism: Containing an Analysis of the Stage Under the Following Heads, Tragedy, Tragi-comedy, Comedy, Pantomime, and Farce. With a Sketch of the Education of the Greek and Roman Actors; Concluding with Some General Instructions for Succeeding in the Art of Acting

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G. Kearsly, 1775 - 216 ページ
 

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64 ページ - Higher than hills of earth, and lend a voice Loud as your thunder to me, that from thence I may discourse to all the under-world The worth that dwells in him ! PHA.
68 ページ - Caesar shall not: danger knows full well. That Caesar is more dangerous than he. We are two lions littered in one day, And I the elder and more terrible: — And Caesar shall go forth.
81 ページ - If they are anything below this, it will look rather like the design of two than the answer of one. It will appear that your actors hold intelligence together, that they perform their tricks like fortune-tellers, by confederacy.
59 ページ - We both have backward trod the paths of fate, 'To meet again in life ; to know I have thee, Is knowing more than any circumstance Or means by which I have thee.
65 ページ - Had they or hearts or eyes, that did this deed ! Could eyes endure to guide such cruel hands? Are not my eyes guilty alike with theirs, That thus can...
147 ページ - I put my hand to any other.' This is virtue, real virtue and love of truth, independent of opinion and above the world! This disposition, transferred to the whole of life, perfects a character and makes that probity and worth which the learned are often at such a loss to explain.
75 ページ - tis late; and yet Some News, few Minutes paft arriv'd, which feem'd To fhake the Temper of the King who knows What racking Cares difeafe a Monarch's Bed? Or Love, that late at Night ftill lights his Lamp, And ftrikes his Rays thro...
64 ページ - Which are diffused through the revolving year, Come, heavy-laden with the oppressing weight, To me ; with me, successively, they leave The sighs, the tears, the groans, the restless cares, And all the damps of grief, that did retard their flight; They shake their downy wings, and scatter all The dire collected dews on my poor head ; Then fly with joy and swiftness from me.
59 ページ - Let me not stir, nor breathe, lest I dissolve That tender, lovely form of painted air, So like Almeria. Ha ! it sinks, it falls ; I'll catch it ere it goes, and grasp her shade. 'Tis life ! 'tis warm ! 'tis she! 'tis she herself!
64 ページ - May the winds blow till they have waken 'd death! And let the labouring bark climb hills of seas Olympus-high, and duck again as low As hell's from heaven! If it were now to die, 'Twere now to be most happy, for I fear My soul hath her content so absolute That not another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate.

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