Edinburgh Dramatic Review, Volumes 7-9James L. Huie., 1824 |
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... racter , that any thing monstrous or uncommon is the talk of the whole kingdom - a complete seven day's wonder , and is manufactured into stories , tales , dramas , novels , & c . without number , by that host of panders to the taste of ...
... racter , that any thing monstrous or uncommon is the talk of the whole kingdom - a complete seven day's wonder , and is manufactured into stories , tales , dramas , novels , & c . without number , by that host of panders to the taste of ...
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... racter . His performance of that part is really superior to that of his Nicol Jarvie , inimitably great as that perform- ance is . Mr. Murray is proud of his Lissardo , as he may well be ; but he ought to be prouder of his Craigengelt ...
... racter . His performance of that part is really superior to that of his Nicol Jarvie , inimitably great as that perform- ance is . Mr. Murray is proud of his Lissardo , as he may well be ; but he ought to be prouder of his Craigengelt ...
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... racter ought to be , and a sense too of his own incapacity to do it justice . Pity is a feeling , the expression of which excites indignation in the breast of a high - minded man ; but we cannot help saying , that with considerable ...
... racter ought to be , and a sense too of his own incapacity to do it justice . Pity is a feeling , the expression of which excites indignation in the breast of a high - minded man ; but we cannot help saying , that with considerable ...
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... racter by an upright discharge of its duty , to express itself fearlessly upon this momentous occasion . It has been seen , that even , with Mr. Vandenhoff , the Manager has felt the necessity of withdrawing some of the very best ...
... racter by an upright discharge of its duty , to express itself fearlessly upon this momentous occasion . It has been seen , that even , with Mr. Vandenhoff , the Manager has felt the necessity of withdrawing some of the very best ...
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... racter to another , and the true picture he shewed of The Gentleman , the Dutch Merchant , and The Quaker ; these were pieces of acting highly creditable . It is very singular the Quakers have , in many Comedies , been made the subject ...
... racter to another , and the true picture he shewed of The Gentleman , the Dutch Merchant , and The Quaker ; these were pieces of acting highly creditable . It is very singular the Quakers have , in many Comedies , been made the subject ...
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Page 35 - The language of poetry naturally falls in with the language of power.
Page 166 - It was the lark, the herald of the morn, No nightingale ; look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops; I must be gone and live, or stay and die.
Page 35 - The one is a monopolising faculty, which seeks the greatest quantity of present excitement by inequality and disproportion ; the other is a distributive faculty, which seeks the greatest quantity of ultimate good, by justice and proportion. The one is an aristocratical, the other a republican faculty. The principle of poetry is a very anti-levelling principle. It aims at effect, it exists by contrast. It admits of no medium. It is every thing by excess.
Page 76 - Of human dealings : If I do prove her haggard, Though that her jesses were my dear heart-strings, I'd whistle her off, and let her down the wind, To prey at fortune.
Page 79 - There is no scene which does not contribute to the aggravation of the distress or conduct of the action, and scarce a line which does not conduce to the progress of the scene. So powerful is the current of the poet's imagination that the mind which once ventures within it is hurried irresistibly along.
Page 35 - The cause of the people is indeed but little calculated as a subject for poetry: it admits of rhetoric, which goes into argument and explanation, but it presents no immediate or distinct images to the mind, 'no jutting frieze, buttress, or coigne of vantage' for poetry 'to make its pendant bed and procreant cradle in'.
Page 176 - No, you unnatural hags, I will have such revenges on you both, That all the world shall — I will do such things — What they are yet I know not ; but they shall be The terrors of the earth.
Page 79 - The artful involutions of distinct interests, the striking oppositions of contrary characters, the sudden changes of fortune, and the quick succession of events, fill the mind with a perpetual tumult of indignation, pity, and hope. There is no scene which does not contribute to the aggravation...
Page 53 - There is no attempt to force an interest: everything is left for time and circumstances to unfold. The attention is excited without effort, the incidents succeed each other as matters of course, the characters think and speak and act just as they might do if left entirely to themselves. There is no set purpose, no straining at a point.
Page 36 - It puts the individual for the species, the one above the infinite many, might before right. A lion hunting a flock of sheep or a herd of wild asses is a more poetical object than...