The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, 第 1 巻1810 A drama is appended to each number of v. 1-2 |
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... never implanted in the hearts of all his in- telligent creatures one common universal appetite without some corresponding necessity ; and that he has given them an instinctive appetite for amusements as strong as any other which we ...
... never implanted in the hearts of all his in- telligent creatures one common universal appetite without some corresponding necessity ; and that he has given them an instinctive appetite for amusements as strong as any other which we ...
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... never be persuaded that a person can be incompetent to any one thing , if they only will him to be great in it and thus it has happened not infrequently , in all cities as well as Philadelphia , that splendid talents have stood behind ...
... never be persuaded that a person can be incompetent to any one thing , if they only will him to be great in it and thus it has happened not infrequently , in all cities as well as Philadelphia , that splendid talents have stood behind ...
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... though books improve , they cannot impart , and which never can be attained by seclusion or solitary study , but must be derived from intercourse with * Dr. Johnson . men in all their forms of conduct , from converse INTRODUCTION . 55.
... though books improve , they cannot impart , and which never can be attained by seclusion or solitary study , but must be derived from intercourse with * Dr. Johnson . men in all their forms of conduct , from converse INTRODUCTION . 55.
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... never an age in which man so masked his nature under modish innovations as he does in the present . The works of the ancients , says a great writer , are the mines from which alone the treasures of true criticism are to be dug up - the ...
... never an age in which man so masked his nature under modish innovations as he does in the present . The works of the ancients , says a great writer , are the mines from which alone the treasures of true criticism are to be dug up - the ...
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... never been able to succeed . Nay , we venture to affirm that if the most sa- gacious man in America were asked , why it was considered a violation of the laws of fashion for a lady to attend the theatre on the opening night of a season ...
... never been able to succeed . Nay , we venture to affirm that if the most sa- gacious man in America were asked , why it was considered a violation of the laws of fashion for a lady to attend the theatre on the opening night of a season ...
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actor admiration Æschylus appeared applause Aristophanes Ashburton audience backsword Barry beauty Betterton Billy Taylor called celebrated character Colley Cibber comedy Cooper Covent Garden critic death delight doctor Johnson duke effect England Euripides excellent fame farce favour favourite feelings Garrick genius gentleman give Hamlet hand head heard heart Hodgkinson honour judgment Julius Cæsar Kemble kind labour lady lived Livius Andronicus Llanymynech London Macbeth Macklin manager Master Payne Menander ment merit mind moral multitude muse nature never night observed occasion opinion Othello Pacuvius passion performance person piece play players poet poetry possessed powers praise racter reader respect says scene seen Shakspeare song soon Sophocles speak spirit stage talents taste theatre thee Thespis thing thought tion tragedy truth virtue voice Voltaire whole words writer young youth
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417 ページ - O mighty Caesar ! dost thou lie so low ? Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils, Shrunk to this little measure?
390 ページ - Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all ? Thou'lt come no more. Never, never, never, never, never ! — Pray you undo this button : thank you, sir. — Do you see this? Look on her, — look, — her lips,— Look there, look there ! — [He dies.
342 ページ - ... twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.
389 ページ - Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low- an excellent thing in woman.
389 ページ - I'd use them so That heaven's vault should crack. — She's gone for ever. — I know when one is dead, and when one lives; She's dead as earth. — Lend me a looking-glass ; If that her breath will mist or stain the stone. Why, then she lives.
81 ページ - And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers, Is always the first to be touched by the thorns.
146 ページ - Then, having show'd his wounds, he'd sit him down, And all the live-long day discourse of war. To help my fancy, in the smooth green turf He cut the figures of the marshal! 'd hosts ; Describ'd the motions, and explain'd the use Of the deep column, and the lengthen'd line, The square, the crescent, and the phalanx firm: For all that Saracen or Christian knew Of war's vast art, was to this hermit known.
299 ページ - A fixed figure for the time of scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at ! Yet could I bear that too ; well, very well : But there, where I have garner'd up my heart, Where either I must live, or bear no life...
388 ページ - A play in which the wicked prosper, and the virtuous miscarry, may doubtless be good, because it is a just representation of the common events of human life : but since all reasonable beings naturally love justice, I cannot easily be persuaded, that the observation of justice makes a play worse; or, that if other excellencies are equal, the audience will not always rise better pleased from the final triumph of persecuted virtue.
132 ページ - Pity it is that the momentary beauties, flowing from an harmonious elocution, cannot, like those of poetry, be their own record! — that the animated graces of the player can live no longer than the instant breath and motion that present them, or at best can but faintly glimmer through the memory or imperfect attestation of a few surviving spectators!