The Looker-on: Musical, Dramatic, Literary ..., Band 1William Hansell Fleming Whittingham & Atherton, 1895 |
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The Looker-on: Musical, Dramatic, Literary .... v. 1-4, Band 3 William Hansell Fleming Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1896 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
action actor Anton Seidl artistic audience Bach beauty Beethoven better bowing Brutus Cæsar Captain Fouche character charm chateau Chloe Chopin comic opera composer composition concert critic dance Departing Woman Dieu drama Duchess Dvorák emotional expression fact Fairfax feel flower Gaston genius German give halls hammer hand hear Hester highness Italian opera Juliet Julius Cæsar King Liszt London Looker-On Macbeth Madame Madame Modjeska Mademoiselle Manuscript Society melody ment modern Monsieur musicians Nature never Olga Nethersole once opera buffa opera seria operetta orchestra original Paderewski Paderewski plays Paris perfect performance Philippe pianist piano pianoforte poem poet poetry prefect of police Prince de Montbraison reason recital Romeo Romeo and Juliet scene Schubert Seidl Senesino Shakespeare Shakespearian singers singing song speak spirit stage string Tannhäuser terrace theatre thing thought tion to-day tone true turning Virginia vocal voice Wagner words
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 136 - To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess.
Seite 219 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers! Hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear. Believe me for mine honour, and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe. Censure me in your wisdom, and awake your senses, that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.
Seite 32 - 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...
Seite 220 - A curse shall light upon the limbs of men ; Domestic fury and fierce civil strife Shall cumber all the parts of Italy; Blood and destruction shall be so in use, And dreadful objects so familiar, That mothers shall but smile when they behold Their infants quarter'd with the hands of war; All pity chok'd with custom of fell deeds : And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge, With Ate...
Seite 217 - Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, Like a Colossus ; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves. Men at some time are masters of their fates : The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
Seite 28 - On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object : can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? or may we cram Within this wooden 0 the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt?
Seite 219 - We all stand up against the spirit of Caesar, And in the spirit of men there is no blood: O, that we then could come by Caesar's spirit, And not dismember Caesar?
Seite 213 - When he shall hear she died upon his words, The idea of her life shall sweetly creep Into his study of imagination...
Seite 267 - Fear not, till Birnam wood Do come to Dunsinane;" and now a wood Comes toward Dunsinane. Arm, arm, and out! If this which he avouches does appear, There is nor flying hence nor tarrying here. I gin to be aweary of the sun, And wish the estate o
Seite 266 - I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.