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... Of more sweetness , than all art Or inventions can impart . Thoughts too deep to be express'd , And too strong to be suppress'd . LETTERS , UNDER ASSUMED SIGNATURES , PUBLISHED IN THE REFLECTOR 136 ON THE POETICAL WORKS , & c .
... Of more sweetness , than all art Or inventions can impart . Thoughts too deep to be express'd , And too strong to be suppress'd . LETTERS , UNDER ASSUMED SIGNATURES , PUBLISHED IN THE REFLECTOR 136 ON THE POETICAL WORKS , & c .
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In Two Parts Charles Lamb. LETTERS , UNDER ASSUMED SIGNATURES , PUBLISHED IN THE REFLECTOR . LETTERS . THE LONDONER . To the Editor of the Letters Under assumed Signatures.
In Two Parts Charles Lamb. LETTERS , UNDER ASSUMED SIGNATURES , PUBLISHED IN THE REFLECTOR . LETTERS . THE LONDONER . To the Editor of the Letters Under assumed Signatures.
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... Reflector . MR . REFLECTOR , I was born under the shadow of St. Dunstan's steeple , just where the conflux of the eastern and western inhabitants of this twofold city meet and justle in friendly opposition at Temple - bar . The same day ...
... Reflector . MR . REFLECTOR , I was born under the shadow of St. Dunstan's steeple , just where the conflux of the eastern and western inhabitants of this twofold city meet and justle in friendly opposition at Temple - bar . The same day ...
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... Reflector . MR . REFLECTOR , I was amused the other day with having the fol- lowing notice thrust into my hand by a man who gives out bills at the corner of Fleet - market . Whether he saw any prognostics about me , that made him judge ...
... Reflector . MR . REFLECTOR , I was amused the other day with having the fol- lowing notice thrust into my hand by a man who gives out bills at the corner of Fleet - market . Whether he saw any prognostics about me , that made him judge ...
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... Reflector . MR . REFLECTOR , THERE is no science in their pretensions to which mankind are more apt to commit grievous mis- takes , than in the supposed very obvious one of physiognomy . I quarrel not with the principles of this science ...
... Reflector . MR . REFLECTOR , THERE is no science in their pretensions to which mankind are more apt to commit grievous mis- takes , than in the supposed very obvious one of physiognomy . I quarrel not with the principles of this science ...
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Page 19 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Page 142 - But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.
Page 37 - Specimens of English Dramatic Poets who lived about the time of Shakspeare...
Page 25 - The greatness of Lear is not in corporal dimension, but in intellectual : the explosions of his passion are terrible as a volcano : they are storms turning up and disclosing to the bottom that sea, his mind, with all its vast riches.
Page 86 - Doctors, and their servants (so that the remnant of the body would not hold out a bone amongst so many hands), take what was left out of the grave, and burnt them to ashes, and cast them into Swift, a neighbouring brook, running hard by. Thus this brook...
Page 64 - He would have made a great epic poet, if indeed he has not abundantly shown himself to be one ; for his Homer is not so properly a translation as the stories of Achilles and Ulysses re-written.
Page 26 - What gesture shall we appropriate to this ? What has the voice or the eye to do with such things ? But the play is beyond all art, as the tamperings with it shew : it is too hard and stony : it must have love-scenes, and a happy ending.
Page 22 - The truth is, the characters of Shakspeare are so much the objects of meditation rather than of interest or curiosity as to their actions, that while we are reading any of his great criminal characters, — Macbeth, Richard, even lago, — we think not so much of the crimes which they commit, as of the ambition, the aspiring spirit, the intellectual activity, which prompts them to overleap these moral fences.
Page 183 - I am no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company; yet in one dream I can compose a whole comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof.
Page 4 - But such is the instantaneous nature of the impressions which we take in at the eye and ear at a playhouse, compared with the slow apprehension often-times of the understanding in reading, that we are apt not only to sink the play-writer in the consideration which we pay to the actor, but even to identify in our minds in a perverse manner the actor with the character which he represents. It is difficult for a frequent play-goer to disembarrass the idea of Hamlet from the person and voice of Mr K[emble]....