Leigh Hunt's Dramatic Criticism, 1808-1831, Volume 10Columbia University Press, 1949 - 347 pages |
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... short breathlessness with which he chips his words as they dart forward always hinders him from expressing a natural gravity in his dialogue : but as five parts of Benedick's com- position are mere wit and carelessness , Mr. Lewis's ...
... short breathlessness with which he chips his words as they dart forward always hinders him from expressing a natural gravity in his dialogue : but as five parts of Benedick's com- position are mere wit and carelessness , Mr. Lewis's ...
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... short and deep snatches of laughter like what we read in the poets of Robin Goodfellow , and his Ho ! ho ! -in short , all those perfections of the clown which be- fore his time perhaps were confined to the Italian stage , and which ...
... short and deep snatches of laughter like what we read in the poets of Robin Goodfellow , and his Ho ! ho ! -in short , all those perfections of the clown which be- fore his time perhaps were confined to the Italian stage , and which ...
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... short , and kick her train aside as if it was biting her - in short , adopt all the little received tricks to which she ought to be superior ; and the consequence is , that instead of the Juliet she ought to be , she is clever ...
... short , and kick her train aside as if it was biting her - in short , adopt all the little received tricks to which she ought to be superior ; and the consequence is , that instead of the Juliet she ought to be , she is clever ...
Contents
CRITICISM ON SHAKSPEARES MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING | 3 |
MR YOUNGS MERITS CONSIDERED | 21 |
THE CONSCIOUS LOVERS | 35 |
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