Criticisms and Dramatic Essays of the English StageG. Routledge and Company, 1851 - 324 psl. |
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... excellence while reading it . On the con- trary , we are pleased to collect anecdotes of this celebrated actor , which shew his power over the human heart , and enable us to measure his genius with that of others by its effects . I have ...
... excellence while reading it . On the con- trary , we are pleased to collect anecdotes of this celebrated actor , which shew his power over the human heart , and enable us to measure his genius with that of others by its effects . I have ...
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... excellence , and to stimulate future efforts . It was thought that a work containing a detailed account of the stage in our own times - a period not un- fruitful in theatrical genius might not be wholly without its use . - The The ...
... excellence , and to stimulate future efforts . It was thought that a work containing a detailed account of the stage in our own times - a period not un- fruitful in theatrical genius might not be wholly without its use . - The The ...
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... excellence : so that , in effect , no one ge- neration of actors binds another ; the art is always setting out afresh on the stock of genius and nature , and the success depends ( generally speaking ) on accident , opportunity , and ...
... excellence : so that , in effect , no one ge- neration of actors binds another ; the art is always setting out afresh on the stock of genius and nature , and the success depends ( generally speaking ) on accident , opportunity , and ...
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... excellence . The intellectual excitement , inseparable from those professions which call forth all our sensibility to pleasure and pain , requires some corresponding physical excitement to support our failure , and not a little to allay ...
... excellence . The intellectual excitement , inseparable from those professions which call forth all our sensibility to pleasure and pain , requires some corresponding physical excitement to support our failure , and not a little to allay ...
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... excellence . Egotism is of different sorts ; and he would not compliment the literary and artificial state of manners so much , as to suppose it quite free from this principle . But it is not allied at present to imagination or passion ...
... excellence . Egotism is of different sorts ; and he would not compliment the literary and artificial state of manners so much , as to suppose it quite free from this principle . But it is not allied at present to imagination or passion ...
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action actor actress admirable appearance applause audience beauty Beggar's Opera character Charles Kemble comedy comic Coriolanus Covent Garden criticism dance Desdemona dignity dramatic dress Drury Lane Drury Lane Theatre effect Elliston equal excellence expression fancy farce fault favourite feel Garrick genius give grace Hamlet heart human humour Iago imagination Ivanhoe Jack Bannister John Kemble Junius Brutus Booth Kean Kean's acting Kemble Kemble's lady laugh Lear living look Lord Macbeth Macready manager manner merit mind Miss O'Neill nature never Othello pantomime passages passion pathos perfect performance person piece play players poet racter Richard Richard II scene seemed seen sense sentiment Shakspeare shew Shylock Siddons Sir Giles Sir Giles Overreach soul speak spirit stage taste theatre thing thou thought tion tone tragedy tragic ventriloquism voice whole WILLIAM HAZLITT wish word write
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