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Page 106
Nor deem that localized romance Plays false with our affections ; Unsanctifies our
tears - - made sport For fanciful dejections ; Ah , no ! the visions of the past
Sustain the heart in feeling Life as she is - our changeful life , With friends and ...
Nor deem that localized romance Plays false with our affections ; Unsanctifies our
tears - - made sport For fanciful dejections ; Ah , no ! the visions of the past
Sustain the heart in feeling Life as she is - our changeful life , With friends and ...
Page 112
At present our attempts are , for the most part , feebler than those of the British “
After Muse , ” for our play - wrights are not from youth so fancy - fed by the crumbs
that fall from the tables of the lords of literature , and having no relish for the ...
At present our attempts are , for the most part , feebler than those of the British “
After Muse , ” for our play - wrights are not from youth so fancy - fed by the crumbs
that fall from the tables of the lords of literature , and having no relish for the ...
Page 115
And again , out of the existence of such actors rose hosts of play . wrights , who
wrote not to embody the spirit of life , in forms shifting and interwoven in the
space of a spectacle , but to give room for display of the powers of such and such
...
And again , out of the existence of such actors rose hosts of play . wrights , who
wrote not to embody the spirit of life , in forms shifting and interwoven in the
space of a spectacle , but to give room for display of the powers of such and such
...
Page 121
The plays written for them , though no genuine dramas , are not without value as
spectacle , and the opportunity , however lame , gives freer play to the actor ' s
powers , than would the simple recitation , by which some have thought any ...
The plays written for them , though no genuine dramas , are not without value as
spectacle , and the opportunity , however lame , gives freer play to the actor ' s
powers , than would the simple recitation , by which some have thought any ...
Page 122
Somewhere betwixt these and the mere acting plays stand such as Maturin ' s
Bertram , Talfourd ' s Ion , and ( now ... Bertram is a good acting play , that is , it
gives a good opportunity to one actor , and its painting , though coarse , is
effective .
Somewhere betwixt these and the mere acting plays stand such as Maturin ' s
Bertram , Talfourd ' s Ion , and ( now ... Bertram is a good acting play , that is , it
gives a good opportunity to one actor , and its painting , though coarse , is
effective .
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| Title | Art, Literature, and the Drama |
| Author | Margaret Fuller |
| Editor | Arthur Buckminster Fuller |
| Publisher | Brown, Taggard & Chase, 1860 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 25 Feb 2011 |
| Length | 449 pages |
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