Elia, Volume 1Edward Moxon, 1836 |
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... express it , as plainly as he can speak , to pit , box , and gallery . When an impertinent in tragedy , an Osric , for instance , breaks in upon the serious passions of the scene , we approve of the contempt with which he is treated ...
... express it , as plainly as he can speak , to pit , box , and gallery . When an impertinent in tragedy , an Osric , for instance , breaks in upon the serious passions of the scene , we approve of the contempt with which he is treated ...
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... express only so much dissatisfaction and peevishness as is consistent with the pleasure of comedy . In other words , his perplexity must seem half put on . If he repel the intruder with the sober set face of a man in earnest , and more ...
... express only so much dissatisfaction and peevishness as is consistent with the pleasure of comedy . In other words , his perplexity must seem half put on . If he repel the intruder with the sober set face of a man in earnest , and more ...
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... rather than express a present one . She indignantly repelled the notion , that with a truly great trage- dian the operation , by which such effects were pro- duced upon an audience , could ever degrade itself into 116 BARBARA S.
... rather than express a present one . She indignantly repelled the notion , that with a truly great trage- dian the operation , by which such effects were pro- duced upon an audience , could ever degrade itself into 116 BARBARA S.
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... express their indignation . A word from you , Sir - a hint in your Journal- would be sufficient to fling open the doors of the Beautiful Temple again , as we can remember them when we were boys . At that time of life , what would the ...
... express their indignation . A word from you , Sir - a hint in your Journal- would be sufficient to fling open the doors of the Beautiful Temple again , as we can remember them when we were boys . At that time of life , what would the ...
Page 140
... express its fancies by . They may serve for the loves of Tibullus , or the dear Author of the Schoolmistress ; for passions that creep and whine in Elegies and Pastoral Ballads . I am sure Milton never loved at this rate . I am afraid ...
... express its fancies by . They may serve for the loves of Tibullus , or the dear Author of the Schoolmistress ; for passions that creep and whine in Elegies and Pastoral Ballads . I am sure Milton never loved at this rate . I am afraid ...
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Page 47 - But where a book is at once both good and rare — where the individual is almost the species, and when that perishes, We know not where is that Promethean torch That can its light relumine...
Page 174 - In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
Page 141 - With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies ; How silently ; and with how wan a face ! What ! may it be, that even in heavenly place That busy Archer his sharp arrows tries...
Page 223 - ... pushed about and squeezed, and elbowed by the poorest rabble of poor gallery scramblers — could I once more hear those anxious shrieks of yours — and the delicious Thank God, we are safe, which always followed when the topmost stair, conquered, let in the first light of the whole cheerful theatre down beneath us — I know not the fathom line that ever touched a descent so deep as I would be willing to bury more wealth in than Croesus had, or the great Jew R is supposed to have, to purchase...
Page 142 - Come Sleep! O Sleep, the certain knot of peace, The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, The indifferent judge between the high and low!
Page 142 - Despair at me doth throw. 0 make in me those civil wars to cease: 1 will good tribute pay, if thou do so. Take thou of me smooth pillows, sweetest bed, A chamber deaf to noise and blind to light, A rosy garland and a weary head: And if these things, as being thine by right, Move not thy heavy grace, thou shalt in me, Livelier than elsewhere, Stella's image see.
Page 149 - Despair at me doth throw; 0 make in me those civil wars to cease : 1 will good tribute pay, if thou do so. Take thou of me smooth pillows, sweetest bed ; A chamber, deaf to noise, and blind to light; A rosy garland, and a weary head.
Page vi - I grant you — a sort of unlicked, incondite things — villainously pranked in an affected array of antique modes and phrases. They had not been his, if they had been other than such ; and better it is, that a writer should be natural in a self-pleasing quaintness, than to affect a naturalness (so called) that should be strange to him.
Page 11 - He remembereth birth-days, and professeth he is fortunate to have stumbled upon one. He declareth against fish, the turbot being small, yet suffereth himself to be importuned into a slice against his first resolution. He sticketh by the port, yet will be prevailed upon to empty the remainder glass of claret, if a stranger press it upon him. He is a puzzle to the servants, who are fearful of being too obsequious, or not civil enough to him. The guests think
Page 177 - Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.