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... desired ends . No dramatist has this technique as a gift at birth , nor does he acquire it merely by writing plays . He reads and sees past and present plays , probably in large numbers . If he is like most young dramatists , for ...
... desired ends . No dramatist has this technique as a gift at birth , nor does he acquire it merely by writing plays . He reads and sees past and present plays , probably in large numbers . If he is like most young dramatists , for ...
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... desired ends - is historically of three kinds : universal , special , and individual . First there are certain essentials which all good plays , from Ęschylus to Lord Dunsany , share at least in part . They are the qualities which make ...
... desired ends - is historically of three kinds : universal , special , and individual . First there are certain essentials which all good plays , from Ęschylus to Lord Dunsany , share at least in part . They are the qualities which make ...
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... desired effects . Many or most of these the other dramatists of his day discover with him . These , which make the special usage of his time , become the tech- nique of his period . Perhaps , however , he has added something in ...
... desired effects . Many or most of these the other dramatists of his day discover with him . These , which make the special usage of his time , become the tech- nique of his period . Perhaps , however , he has added something in ...
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... desired effects in the quickest possible ways . A novel we read at one or a half - dozen sittings , as we please . When we so wish , we can pause to consider what we have just read , or can re - read it . In the theatre , a play must be ...
... desired effects in the quickest possible ways . A novel we read at one or a half - dozen sittings , as we please . When we so wish , we can pause to consider what we have just read , or can re - read it . In the theatre , a play must be ...
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... desired to end his tale with some right poisonous sting . Now in the drama we cannot harbour this suggestion ; what we hear has happened in the story , we see really occur ; what we would doubt of in the story , in the drama the ...
... desired to end his tale with some right poisonous sting . Now in the drama we cannot harbour this suggestion ; what we hear has happened in the story , we see really occur ; what we would doubt of in the story , in the drama the ...
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Page 56 - Quick, as it fell, from the broken staff Dame Barbara snatched the silken scarf. She leaned far out on the window-sill, And shook it forth with a royal will. ' Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country's flag,' she said. A shade of sadness, a blush of shame, Over the face of the leader came; The nobler nature within him stirred To life at that woman's deed and word; ' Who touches a hair of yon gray head Dies like a dog ! March on !
Page 199 - I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country...
Page 55 - In her attic-window the staff she set, To show that one heart was loyal yet. Up the street came the rebel tread, Stonewall Jackson riding ahead. Under his slouched hat left and right He glanced : the old flag met his sight.
Page 141 - I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them...
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Page 35 - It was the lark, the herald of the morn, No nightingale ; look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops; I must be gone and live, or stay and die.
Page 367 - Excellent wretch ! Perdition catch my soul, But I do love thee ! and when I love thee not Chaos is come again.
Page 267 - To be more prince) as may be. — You are sad. Hub. Indeed, I have been merrier. Arth. Mercy on me ! Methinks, nobody should be sad but I : Yet, I remember, when I was in France, Young gentlemen would be as sad as night, Only for wantonness.
Page 33 - Ah, Faustus, Now hast thou but one bare hour to live, And then thou must be damned perpetually! Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven, That time may cease, and midnight never come; Fair Nature's eye, rise, rise again and make Perpetual day; or let this hour be but A year, a month, a week, a natural day, That Faustus may repent and save his soul!
Page 271 - For heaven's sake, Hubert, let me not be bound! Nay, hear me, Hubert: drive these men away, And I will sit as quiet as a lamb; I will not stir, nor wince, nor speak a word, Nor look upon the iron angerly. Thrust but these men away, and I'll forgive you, Whatever torment you do put me to.