The Drama: Or, Theatrical Pocket Magazine, Volumen1T. and J. Elvey., 1821 Wholly dedicated to the stage, and containing original dramatic biography, essays, criticisms, poetry, reviews ... with occasional notices of the country theatres, the whole forming a complete critical and biographical illustration of the British stage. |
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... engaged in scientific pursuits , and who love and admire the writings of the " immortal bard , " examine with accuracy those passages in which allusions are made to subjects , that have particu-- larly engaged their attention , many ...
... engaged in scientific pursuits , and who love and admire the writings of the " immortal bard , " examine with accuracy those passages in which allusions are made to subjects , that have particu-- larly engaged their attention , many ...
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... engaged in deer - stealing from the Park of Sir Thomas Lucy , of Charlecot , near Stratford ; but the crime does not appear to have been thought so seriously of at that time , as it would be now , for though he was prose- cuted , he was ...
... engaged in deer - stealing from the Park of Sir Thomas Lucy , of Charlecot , near Stratford ; but the crime does not appear to have been thought so seriously of at that time , as it would be now , for though he was prose- cuted , he was ...
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... engaged in the repre- sentation . Mr. WALLACK having upon former occasions sustained the character of Gloster , in the more fiery deline- ation of Shakspeare , was of course fully competent to the sketch which Rowe has given of the same ...
... engaged in the repre- sentation . Mr. WALLACK having upon former occasions sustained the character of Gloster , in the more fiery deline- ation of Shakspeare , was of course fully competent to the sketch which Rowe has given of the same ...
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... engaged at an immense expense !!! - See Play Bill . The Cobourg Proprietor needs some amends , Or he'll be in a terrible way ; For in striving to please all his num'rous friends , He has at length got the Devil to pay . INSTANCES OF ...
... engaged at an immense expense !!! - See Play Bill . The Cobourg Proprietor needs some amends , Or he'll be in a terrible way ; For in striving to please all his num'rous friends , He has at length got the Devil to pay . INSTANCES OF ...
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... engaged at either of our patent Theatres , as there is a dignity and keeping in his action that exalts him in this character far beyond his general round of perform- ances . His delivery of the following speeeh when seated in his cell ...
... engaged at either of our patent Theatres , as there is a dignity and keeping in his action that exalts him in this character far beyond his general round of perform- ances . His delivery of the following speeeh when seated in his cell ...
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Pasajes populares
Página 171 - And all amid them stood the tree of life, High eminent, blooming ambrosial fruit Of vegetable gold; and next to life Our death the tree of knowledge grew fast by, Knowledge of good bought dear by knowing ill.
Página 24 - Caesar carelessly but nod on him. He had a fever when he was in Spain, And when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did shake : — 'tis true, this god did shake.
Página 237 - 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 proclaimed their malefactions ; For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.
Página 390 - Shakespeare was inspiration indeed ; he is not so much an imitator as an instrument of Nature ; and it is not so just to say that he speaks from her as that she speaks through him.
Página 385 - WHEN Learning's triumph o'er her barbarous foes First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakspeare rose; Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagined new : Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.
Página 81 - See, what a grace was seated on this brow; Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury, New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; A combination, and a form, indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.
Página 110 - Not what we ail'd, yet something we did ail ; And yet were well, and yet we were not well, And what was our disease we could not tell. Then would we kiss, then sigh, then look. And thus In that first garden of our simpleness We spent our childhood : but when years began To reap the fruit of knowledge, ah, how then Would she with graver looks, with sweet stern brow, Check my presumption and my forwardness ; Yet still would give me flowers, still would me show What she would have me, yet not have me...
Página 117 - I speak to Time and to Eternity, Of which I grow a portion, not to man. Ye elements ! in which to be resolved I hasten, let my voice be as a spirit Upon you ! Ye blue waves ! which bore my banner, Ye winds ! which...
Página 328 - The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, the important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome.
Página 182 - The house is shown by a garrulous old lady in a frosty red face, lighted up by a cold blue anxious eye, and garnished with artificial locks of flaxen hair, curling from under an exceedingly dirty cap.