Leigh Hunt's Dramatic Criticism, 1808-1831, Volume 10Columbia University Press, 1949 - 347 pages |
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Page 92
... sense of its wants and insipidity ; and we look at it with a sort of indifferent despair , like a painter who has a dull family brought him to sit for their portraits . We have the consolation however of foreseeing that , if we are ...
... sense of its wants and insipidity ; and we look at it with a sort of indifferent despair , like a painter who has a dull family brought him to sit for their portraits . We have the consolation however of foreseeing that , if we are ...
Page 105
... sense of the word ) are distinguishable by little but their deficiencies . Mr. Brunton is a most namby - pamby person , with an air neverthe- less of good sense at bottom . Mr. Barrymore " is a is a useful per- former and very sufficing ...
... sense of the word ) are distinguishable by little but their deficiencies . Mr. Brunton is a most namby - pamby person , with an air neverthe- less of good sense at bottom . Mr. Barrymore " is a is a useful per- former and very sufficing ...
Page 127
... sense , And Gorgon - like , turns active men to stone . The picture of Pleasure is that of " a young woman with a ... Senses : but Mercury dismisses her in like manner , commencing , among other images of a less original complexion ...
... sense , And Gorgon - like , turns active men to stone . The picture of Pleasure is that of " a young woman with a ... Senses : but Mercury dismisses her in like manner , commencing , among other images of a less original complexion ...
Contents
CRITICISM ON SHAKSPEARES MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING | 3 |
MR YOUNGS MERITS CONSIDERED | 21 |
THE CONSCIOUS LOVERS | 35 |
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