The Oxford Book of American EssaysOxford University Press, 1914 - 508 páginas |
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Página 22
... passion about trifles , he observes , that John Bull is a choleric old blade , but then his passion is over in a moment , and he bears no malice . If he betrays a coarseness of taste , and an insensi- bility to foreign refinements , he ...
... passion about trifles , he observes , that John Bull is a choleric old blade , but then his passion is over in a moment , and he bears no malice . If he betrays a coarseness of taste , and an insensi- bility to foreign refinements , he ...
Página 49
... the part better than anyone has done before him . In his highest - wrought passion , when the limbs and muscles are alive and quivering , and his gestures hurried and vehement , nothing appears ranted or overacted ; be- KEAN'S ACTING 49.
... the part better than anyone has done before him . In his highest - wrought passion , when the limbs and muscles are alive and quivering , and his gestures hurried and vehement , nothing appears ranted or overacted ; be- KEAN'S ACTING 49.
Página 50
... passionate parts , he does not fall into extravagance ; but runs along the dizzy edge of the roaring and beating sea ... passions , we see that there is a power and order over the whole . A man has feelings sometimes which can only be ...
... passionate parts , he does not fall into extravagance ; but runs along the dizzy edge of the roaring and beating sea ... passions , we see that there is a power and order over the whole . A man has feelings sometimes which can only be ...
Página 51
... passion , complain that Kean is apt to be extravagant ; when in truth he seems to be little more than a simple personation of the feeling or passion to be expressed at the time . It has been so common a saying , that Lear is the most ...
... passion , complain that Kean is apt to be extravagant ; when in truth he seems to be little more than a simple personation of the feeling or passion to be expressed at the time . It has been so common a saying , that Lear is the most ...
Página 52
... passion , with such little accompaniments as agree with it , and go to make up the whole man . In Lear , his object ... passions had grown strong with age , and were ready , upon a disappointment , to make ship- wreck of an intellect ...
... passion , with such little accompaniments as agree with it , and go to make up the whole man . In Lear , his object ... passions had grown strong with age , and were ready , upon a disappointment , to make ship- wreck of an intellect ...
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Página 110 - art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore — Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!
Página 112 - Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
Página 110 - Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter, In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore. Not the least obeisance made he; not...
Página 106 - When it most closely allies itself to Beauty; the death, then, of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world...
Página 141 - He touched the tender stops of various quills, With eager thought warbling his Doric lay: And now the sun had stretched out all the hills, And now was dropt into the western bay. At last he rose, and twitched his mantle blue : To-morrow to fresh woods, and pastures new.
Página 6 - ... said I, you are providing pain for yourself, instead of pleasure; you give too much for your whistle.
Página 4 - I then came home, 10 and went whistling all over the house, much pleased with my whistle, but disturbing all the family. My brothers, and sisters, and cousins, understanding the bargain I had made, told me I had given four times as much for it as it was worth...
Página 128 - I WISH to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil, — to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society.
Página 34 - I know that all beneath the moon decays. And what by mortals in this world is brought, In time's great period shall return to nought. l know that all the muse's heavenly lays, With toil of sprite which are so dearly bought, As idle sounds, of few or none are sought, That there is nothing lighter than mere praise.
Página 56 - Lear. You do me wrong, to take me out o' the grave. — Thou art a soul in bliss ; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead.