Crayon Sketches, Volume 2Conner and Cooke, 1833 - New York (N.Y.) |
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... comedy , so much the bet- ter ; if not , an opera will do as well ; if that is not to be had , why then a broad farce , or a broader me- lo - drama ; or in default of these , even an extrava- ganza or a pantomime ; always provided ...
... comedy , so much the bet- ter ; if not , an opera will do as well ; if that is not to be had , why then a broad farce , or a broader me- lo - drama ; or in default of these , even an extrava- ganza or a pantomime ; always provided ...
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... comedy , which in itself contains enough poetry and passion , wit and sense for any reasonable man for one evening , be first enacted , and then let any popular nonsense most in vogue occasionally follow , by which arrangement all ...
... comedy , which in itself contains enough poetry and passion , wit and sense for any reasonable man for one evening , be first enacted , and then let any popular nonsense most in vogue occasionally follow , by which arrangement all ...
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... comedy , this would amount to between forty and fifty pieces of real merit in the course of the season- an immense acquisition . And if the newspapers and literary journals were to make a point of especially noticing and comment- ing on ...
... comedy , this would amount to between forty and fifty pieces of real merit in the course of the season- an immense acquisition . And if the newspapers and literary journals were to make a point of especially noticing and comment- ing on ...
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... , noisy , impertinent , obtrusive set of var- lets that can be imagined , and are not ashamed of any thing - except having no whiskers . OLD ENGLISH COMEDIES . 66 Comedy is a graceful ornament 9 * BOY - MEN AND GIRL - WOMEN . 93.
... , noisy , impertinent , obtrusive set of var- lets that can be imagined , and are not ashamed of any thing - except having no whiskers . OLD ENGLISH COMEDIES . 66 Comedy is a graceful ornament 9 * BOY - MEN AND GIRL - WOMEN . 93.
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William Cox Theodore Sedgwick Fay. OLD ENGLISH COMEDIES . 66 Comedy is a graceful ornament to the civil order ; the Corinthian capital of polished society . Like the mirrors which have been added to the sides of one of our theatres , it ...
William Cox Theodore Sedgwick Fay. OLD ENGLISH COMEDIES . 66 Comedy is a graceful ornament to the civil order ; the Corinthian capital of polished society . Like the mirrors which have been added to the sides of one of our theatres , it ...
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Page 242 - And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with nature's tear-drops as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, - alas! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass...
Page 27 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions : I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Page 190 - I'd have you do it ever : when you sing, I'd have you buy and sell so ; so give alms ; Pray so ; and for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too. When you do dance, I wish you A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that ; move still, still so, and own No other function.
Page 235 - Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band, That knits me to thy rugged strand!
Page 108 - I have heard That guilty creatures, sitting at a play, Have by the very cunning of the scene Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions; For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.
Page 243 - The mountain shadows on her breast Were neither broken nor at rest ; In bright uncertainty they lie, Like future joys to Fancy's eye.
Page 233 - Time rolls his ceaseless course. The race of yore, Who danced our infancy upon their knee, And told our marvelling boyhood legends store, Of their strange ventures happ'd by land or sea, How are they blotted from the things that be...
Page 70 - ... the birds of the air, the beasts of the field, and the inhabitants of the water, that they might be borne to her wherever hid.
Page 15 - OFT in the stilly night, Ere Slumber's chain has bound me, Fond Memory brings the light Of other days around me; The smiles, the tears, Of boyhood's years, The words of love then spoken; The eyes that shone, Now dimmed and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken ! Thus, in the stilly night, Ere Slumber's chain has bound me, Sad Memory brings the light Of other days around me.
Page 141 - There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am arm'd so strong in honesty, That they pass by me as the idle wind, Which I respect not.