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Pagina 14
... play with a witty epilogue . On one occasion , Nell Gwynne , in the charac- ter of St. Catherine , was , at the end of the play , left for dead upon the stage . Her body having to be removed , the actress suddenly started to her feet ...
... play with a witty epilogue . On one occasion , Nell Gwynne , in the charac- ter of St. Catherine , was , at the end of the play , left for dead upon the stage . Her body having to be removed , the actress suddenly started to her feet ...
Pagina 15
... play , and my virtuous indignation shall rise against the profligate wretch as warmly as the Catos of the pit could desire , because in a modern play I am to judge of the right and the wrong . The standard of police is the measure of ...
... play , and my virtuous indignation shall rise against the profligate wretch as warmly as the Catos of the pit could desire , because in a modern play I am to judge of the right and the wrong . The standard of police is the measure of ...
Pagina 16
... plays of Etherege , Shadwell , Wycherley , and Congreve affect us to - day ; and it is no doubt superfluous to expend much moral indignation on works which have long since lost their power to charm ; come- dies in which the reader finds ...
... plays of Etherege , Shadwell , Wycherley , and Congreve affect us to - day ; and it is no doubt superfluous to expend much moral indignation on works which have long since lost their power to charm ; come- dies in which the reader finds ...
Pagina 17
... play : for it seems he is an atheist , if we may depend upon his character as given by the orange - woman , who is herself far from being the lowest in the play . She says of a fine man who is Dorimant's companion , ' there is not such ...
... play : for it seems he is an atheist , if we may depend upon his character as given by the orange - woman , who is herself far from being the lowest in the play . She says of a fine man who is Dorimant's companion , ' there is not such ...
Pagina 18
... play , while they loudly applauded their obscene allusions . So gross was the character of comic dialogue that women ... plays which were always assigned to the female actors . It at first sight seems remarkable that a society ...
... play , while they loudly applauded their obscene allusions . So gross was the character of comic dialogue that women ... plays which were always assigned to the female actors . It at first sight seems remarkable that a society ...
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Pagina 129 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream: The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Pagina 192 - It was said of Socrates, that he brought philosophy down from heaven, to inhabit among men ; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought philosophy out of closets and libraries, schools and colleges, to dwell in clubs and assemblies, at tea-tables and in coffee-houses.
Pagina 134 - While wits and Templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise— Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers load, On wings of winds came flying all abroad?
Pagina 78 - To Dr. Jonathan Swift, the most agreeable companion, the truest friend, and the greatest genius of his age.
Pagina 3 - Shalum, just finished for the next day's Spectator, in his hand. Such a mark of national respect was due to the unsullied statesman, to the accomplished scholar, to the master of pure English eloquence, to the consummate painter of life and manners. It was due, above all, to the great satirist, who alone knew how to use ridicule without abusing it, who, without inflicting a wound, effected a great social reform, and who reconciled wit and virtue, after a long and disastrous separation, during which...
Pagina 160 - Can I forget the dismal night that gave My soul's best part for ever to the grave? How silent did his old companions tread, By midnight lamps, the mansions of the dead, Through breathing statues, then unheeded things, Through rows of warriors and through walks of kings...
Pagina 67 - And taught the dreadful battle where to rage. — So when an Angel by Divine command With rising tempests shakes a guilty land — Such as of late o'er pale Britannia past — Calm and serene he drives the furious blast ; And pleased the Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
Pagina 181 - It is not uncommon for those who have grown wise by the labour of others to add a little of their own, and overlook their masters. Addison is now despised by some who perhaps would never have seen his defects but by the lights which he afforded them.
Pagina 143 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer, Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike ; Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike...
Pagina 48 - For wheresoe'er I turn my ravished eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, Poetic fields encompass me around And still I seem to tread on classic ground...