Criticisms and Dramatic Essays of the English StageG. Routledge and Company, 1851 - 324 psl. |
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... success ) that he was not " the very worst actor in the world . " His Othello is what ap- pears to me his master - piece . To those who have seen him in this part , and think little of it . I have nothing further to say . It seems to me ...
... success ) that he was not " the very worst actor in the world . " His Othello is what ap- pears to me his master - piece . To those who have seen him in this part , and think little of it . I have nothing further to say . It seems to me ...
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... success . The mind , in such cases , instead of being deterred by the alarming consequences held out to it , revolts against the denunciation of them as an insult offered to its free - will , and , in a spirit of defiance , returns a ...
... success . The mind , in such cases , instead of being deterred by the alarming consequences held out to it , revolts against the denunciation of them as an insult offered to its free - will , and , in a spirit of defiance , returns a ...
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... success depends ( generally speaking ) on accident , opportunity , and encouragement . The har- vest of excellence ( whatever it may be ) is removed from the ground , every twenty or thirty years , by Death's sickle ; and there is room ...
... success depends ( generally speaking ) on accident , opportunity , and encouragement . The har- vest of excellence ( whatever it may be ) is removed from the ground , every twenty or thirty years , by Death's sickle ; and there is room ...
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... success , but are , " like the giddy sailor on the mast , ready with every blast to topple down into the fatal bowels of the deep ! " Besides , if the young enthusiast , who is smitten with the stage , and with the public as a mistress ...
... success , but are , " like the giddy sailor on the mast , ready with every blast to topple down into the fatal bowels of the deep ! " Besides , if the young enthusiast , who is smitten with the stage , and with the public as a mistress ...
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William Hazlitt. spirits attendant on success . If there is any ten- dency to dissipation beyond this in the profession of a player , it is owing to the prejudices entertained against them to that spirit of bigotry which in a ...
William Hazlitt. spirits attendant on success . If there is any ten- dency to dissipation beyond this in the profession of a player , it is owing to the prejudices entertained against them to that spirit of bigotry which in a ...
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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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