Crayon Sketches, Volume 2Conner and Cooke, 1833 - New York (N.Y.) |
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... cold and exercise had sent a glow more deep and rich than the most brilliant carnation ! -with eyes sparkling and dancing in liquid splendor , and her warm breath playing back upon her face , seeking , 20 CHRISTMAS .
... cold and exercise had sent a glow more deep and rich than the most brilliant carnation ! -with eyes sparkling and dancing in liquid splendor , and her warm breath playing back upon her face , seeking , 20 CHRISTMAS .
Page 95
... rich and racy , yet na- tural ; and of incidents gay and sprightly , yet pro- bable ; and was , indeed , a mirror to show " the very age and body of the time , its form and pressure . " Now , what is a comedy ? Messrs . Morton , Peake ...
... rich and racy , yet na- tural ; and of incidents gay and sprightly , yet pro- bable ; and was , indeed , a mirror to show " the very age and body of the time , its form and pressure . " Now , what is a comedy ? Messrs . Morton , Peake ...
Page 103
... rich old Dutch school as any one need wish to look upon . But the greatest field for imitation is theatricals , and here it is of the very worst species . The beau- ties of a great actor are never attempted to be copi- ed ; they are too ...
... rich old Dutch school as any one need wish to look upon . But the greatest field for imitation is theatricals , and here it is of the very worst species . The beau- ties of a great actor are never attempted to be copi- ed ; they are too ...
Page 112
... rich and broad is their expression when those who own them once get fairly interested in the business of the scene , and become unconscious of all else beside . A countryman's , for instance , when a comic song is sung , or a juggling ...
... rich and broad is their expression when those who own them once get fairly interested in the business of the scene , and become unconscious of all else beside . A countryman's , for instance , when a comic song is sung , or a juggling ...
Page 144
... rich humor , which is the distinguishing character- istic of both , has , from its prominence , thrown their minor good properties into the shade . Hogarth , to the qualities peculiarly his own , added the rare merit of being a chaste ...
... rich humor , which is the distinguishing character- istic of both , has , from its prominence , thrown their minor good properties into the shade . Hogarth , to the qualities peculiarly his own , added the rare merit of being a chaste ...
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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.