The Looker-on: Musical, Dramatic, Literary ..., Volume 1William Hansell Fleming Whittingham & Atherton, 1895 - Drama |
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... better than they had been at Warsaw . Here he took lessons in composition of Kiel , whose best service to his pupil was that he fanned his enthusiasm for his own two idols , Bach and Beethoven . Professor Urban , of Kul- lak's Academy ...
... better than they had been at Warsaw . Here he took lessons in composition of Kiel , whose best service to his pupil was that he fanned his enthusiasm for his own two idols , Bach and Beethoven . Professor Urban , of Kul- lak's Academy ...
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... better than his pianoforte works , while Brahms ' piano pieces , as he once said to me , hardly exist for him : " they seem all treble and bass . " But he admires the chamber - music of Brahms . His worship of the romantic Chopin ...
... better than his pianoforte works , while Brahms ' piano pieces , as he once said to me , hardly exist for him : " they seem all treble and bass . " But he admires the chamber - music of Brahms . His worship of the romantic Chopin ...
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... better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live . " Shakespeare , like most of the dramatists of that time , acted in his own plays . Amongst other parts , he took that of the Ghost in " Hamlet , " Adam in “ As You Like ...
... better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live . " Shakespeare , like most of the dramatists of that time , acted in his own plays . Amongst other parts , he took that of the Ghost in " Hamlet , " Adam in “ As You Like ...
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... 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 . " Under the circumstances ...
... 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 . " Under the circumstances ...
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... better play the lover's part . Philippe . Madame ! If the prince should hear you ! I dare not speak his name . He wishes to forget that the young count ever lived . Duchess . Does my brother ever hear from Gaston ? Philippe ...
... better play the lover's part . Philippe . Madame ! If the prince should hear you ! I dare not speak his name . He wishes to forget that the young count ever lived . Duchess . Does my brother ever hear from Gaston ? Philippe ...
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Page 136 - To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess.
Page 219 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers! Hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear. Believe me for mine honour, and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe. Censure me in your wisdom, and awake your senses, that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.
Page 32 - 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...
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Page 217 - Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, Like a Colossus ; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves. Men at some time are masters of their fates : The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
Page 28 - On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object : can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? or may we cram Within this wooden 0 the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt?
Page 219 - We all stand up against the spirit of Caesar, And in the spirit of men there is no blood: O, that we then could come by Caesar's spirit, And not dismember Caesar?
Page 213 - When he shall hear she died upon his words, The idea of her life shall sweetly creep Into his study of imagination...
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