Crayon Sketches, Volume 2Conner and Cooke, 1833 - New York (N.Y.) |
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Page 13
... similar in form and expression to those of the well - fed cherubs to be met with on grave- stones or above altar - pieces ; then there are the juvenile countrymen of William Tell , who have come all STREETS OF LONDON . 13.
... similar in form and expression to those of the well - fed cherubs to be met with on grave- stones or above altar - pieces ; then there are the juvenile countrymen of William Tell , who have come all STREETS OF LONDON . 13.
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... pieces ; and the contrast is , at times , both laughable and melancholy , in returning from the theatre where Vestris , or some of the other sirens of the stage , have been floating before you in an atmosphere of pleasure , and warbling ...
... pieces ; and the contrast is , at times , both laughable and melancholy , in returning from the theatre where Vestris , or some of the other sirens of the stage , have been floating before you in an atmosphere of pleasure , and warbling ...
Page 19
... piece of concentrated selfishness - his sympathies are as frozen as his fingers , and he has no superflux benevolence ; but as his stomach becomes literally closed his heart is figuratively opened , and he parts with his money with ...
... piece of concentrated selfishness - his sympathies are as frozen as his fingers , and he has no superflux benevolence ; but as his stomach becomes literally closed his heart is figuratively opened , and he parts with his money with ...
Page 27
... offence given to their delicate tastes , when a profitable piece of nonsense happens to be enacted , instead of Shaks- peare or the " sterling English comedies ! " But the best of the joke is , that most of this THE DRAMA AS IT IS . 27.
... offence given to their delicate tastes , when a profitable piece of nonsense happens to be enacted , instead of Shaks- peare or the " sterling English comedies ! " But the best of the joke is , that most of this THE DRAMA AS IT IS . 27.
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... pieces , for they have the beau- ty that " Needs not the foreign aid of ornament ; " consequently , the cost of " scenery , machinery , dres- ses , and decorations , " is all saved ; and to those who , for want of a genuine admiration ...
... pieces , for they have the beau- ty that " Needs not the foreign aid of ornament ; " consequently , the cost of " scenery , machinery , dres- ses , and decorations , " is all saved ; and to those who , for want of a genuine admiration ...
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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.