The Dramatic Essays of Charles LambChatto & Windus, 1891 - 265 Seiten |
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... farce in two acts . This was founded on his own essay On the Inconvenience of being Hanged . ' It was written nearly a score of years after Mr. H. , ' and from a letter to Southey it seems as though there was once some hope of its being ...
... farce in two acts . This was founded on his own essay On the Inconvenience of being Hanged . ' It was written nearly a score of years after Mr. H. , ' and from a letter to Southey it seems as though there was once some hope of its being ...
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... farce called ' Mr. H. , ' acted at Drury Lane Theatre , December 10 , 1806 , and damned out of hand . " These are our failures , " said Mr. Brummel's valet ; and Mr. H. ' is , in England , always accounted one of Lamb's fail- ures , and ...
... farce called ' Mr. H. , ' acted at Drury Lane Theatre , December 10 , 1806 , and damned out of hand . " These are our failures , " said Mr. Brummel's valet ; and Mr. H. ' is , in England , always accounted one of Lamb's fail- ures , and ...
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... farce , as the farces of the time go : in 1806 a popular farce was not required to be as substantial and as instructive as a tragedy . It has scarcely action enough for two acts ; but it is no slighter in plot and situation than the ...
... farce , as the farces of the time go : in 1806 a popular farce was not required to be as substantial and as instructive as a tragedy . It has scarcely action enough for two acts ; but it is no slighter in plot and situation than the ...
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... farce of Mr. H. ' met with extraordinary success , and was played an unusual number of nights . " Mr. Ireland has found that Wood continued to act the part for ten or a dozen years . I can hope only doubtfully that some tidings of the ...
... farce of Mr. H. ' met with extraordinary success , and was played an unusual number of nights . " Mr. Ireland has found that Wood continued to act the part for ten or a dozen years . I can hope only doubtfully that some tidings of the ...
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... farce , and his wilder commen- tary , till the passion of laughter , like grief in excess , relieved itself by its own weight , invit- ing the sleep which in the first instance it had driven away . - - But I was not to escape so easily ...
... farce , and his wilder commen- tary , till the passion of laughter , like grief in excess , relieved itself by its own weight , invit- ing the sleep which in the first instance it had driven away . - - But I was not to escape so easily ...
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Seite 9 - He is retired as noontide dew, Or fountain in a noon-day grove ; And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love.
Seite 186 - A happy ending ! — as if the living martyrdom that Lear had gone through — the flaying of his feelings alive, did not make a fair dismissal from the stage of life the only decorous thing for him.
Seite 262 - ... more strongly I felt obligation to you for having brought me, — and the pleasure was the better for a little shame, — and when the curtain drew up, what cared we for our place in the house, or what mattered it where we were sitting, when our thoughts were with Rosalind in Arden, or with Viola at the Court of Illyria?
Seite 261 - ... inn, and order the best of dinners, never debating the expense, which, after all, never has half the relish of those chance country snaps, when we were at the mercy of uncertain usage and a precarious welcome.
Seite 69 - There is one face of Farley, one face of Knight, one (but what a one it is !) of Listen ; but Munden has none that you can properly pin down, and call his.
Seite 123 - Ye have the account Of my performance : what remains, ye gods ! But up, and enter now into full bliss ?" So having said, a while he stood, expecting Their universal shout, and high applause, To fill his ear ; when, contrary, he hears On all sides, from innumerable tongues, A dismal universal hiss, the sound Of public scorn...
Seite 151 - I could never connect those sports of a witty fancy in any shape with any result to be drawn from them to imitation in real life.
Seite 171 - Why, nine parts in ten of what Hamlet does are transactions between himself and his moral sense, they are the effusions of his solitary musings, which he retires to holes and corners and the most sequestered parts of the palace to pour forth, or rather, they are the silent meditations with which his bosom is bursting, reduced to words for the sake of the reader, who must else remain ignorant of what is passing there.
Seite 109 - My conceit of his person was never increased toward him by his place, or honours, but I have and do reverence him, for the greatness that was only proper to himself, in that he seemed to me ever, by his work, one of the greatest men, and most worthy of admiration, that had been in many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed that God would give him strength ; for greatness he could not want.
Seite 183 - 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.