Leigh Hunt's Dramatic Criticism, 1808-1831, Volume 10Columbia University Press, 1949 - 347 pages |
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... face . A spectacle in which little is understood and nothing gained is unworthy serious criticism . The modern pantomime appears to me to be capable of great improvement without losing any of its essential qualities . Harlequin is a ...
... face . A spectacle in which little is understood and nothing gained is unworthy serious criticism . The modern pantomime appears to me to be capable of great improvement without losing any of its essential qualities . Harlequin is a ...
Page 141
... face , we love the profligate wag who so unambitiously amuses us at another's expense ; and when he trips up his poor old master , whose face comes on the ground like a block of wood , we shout with rapture to see the lesser stupid thus ...
... face , we love the profligate wag who so unambitiously amuses us at another's expense ; and when he trips up his poor old master , whose face comes on the ground like a block of wood , we shout with rapture to see the lesser stupid thus ...
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... face is in sweetness and intel- ligence - in expression ; and if it be innocently and unaffectedly ' assisted , so much the better . Any complexion or mere surface would fly to atoms before a microscope ; but soul , and taste , and the ...
... face is in sweetness and intel- ligence - in expression ; and if it be innocently and unaffectedly ' assisted , so much the better . Any complexion or mere surface would fly to atoms before a microscope ; but soul , and taste , and the ...
Contents
CRITICISM ON SHAKSPEARES MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING | 3 |
MR YOUNGS MERITS CONSIDERED | 21 |
THE CONSCIOUS LOVERS | 35 |
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