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... understanding he is per- haps rather to be called a man of parts , than a man of genius , none of his productions rising higher than the efforts of a lively fancy , exer- cised on a variety of topics , but with little force or accuracy ...
... understanding he is per- haps rather to be called a man of parts , than a man of genius , none of his productions rising higher than the efforts of a lively fancy , exer- cised on a variety of topics , but with little force or accuracy ...
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... understands the true charms of eloquence and poesy . But I direct this address to you ; not that I think I can entertain you with my writings , but to thank you for the new delight I have , from your con- versation , in those of other ...
... understands the true charms of eloquence and poesy . But I direct this address to you ; not that I think I can entertain you with my writings , but to thank you for the new delight I have , from your con- versation , in those of other ...
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... understand , by Mr. Twisden , who died at the battle of Mons , and has a monument in Westminster - abbey , suitable to the respect which is due to his wit and his valour . There are through the course of the work very many incidents ...
... understand , by Mr. Twisden , who died at the battle of Mons , and has a monument in Westminster - abbey , suitable to the respect which is due to his wit and his valour . There are through the course of the work very many incidents ...
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... understanding when he is drunk , and is least in his senses when he is sober . " ** The reader is desired to take notice of the article from this place from time to time , for I design to be very exact in the progress this unhappy ...
... understanding when he is drunk , and is least in his senses when he is sober . " ** The reader is desired to take notice of the article from this place from time to time , for I design to be very exact in the progress this unhappy ...
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... understanding of the allies , they have had no other effect , but to make all the members concerned in the alliance more doubtful of their safety from the great offers of the enemy . The Emperor is roused by this alarm , and the ...
... understanding of the allies , they have had no other effect , but to make all the members concerned in the alliance more doubtful of their safety from the great offers of the enemy . The Emperor is roused by this alarm , and the ...
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Sida 251 - O, there be players that I have seen play, and heard others praise, and that highly, not to speak it profanely, that, neither having the accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Sida 251 - O reform it altogether, and let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them, for there be of them that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, though in the mean time some necessary question of the play be then to be considered; that's villanous, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Sida 251 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve; the censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
Sida 308 - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful 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...
Sida 250 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.
Sida xiv - To teach the minuter decencies and inferior duties, to regulate the practice of daily conversation, to correct those depravities which are rather ridiculous than criminal, and remove those grievances which, if they produce no lasting calamities, impress hourly vexation...
Sida xlvi - ... we cannot yet say that any of them have come up to the beauties of the original, I think we may venture to affirm, that every one of them writes and thinks much more justly than they did some time since.
Sida 250 - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus ; but use all gently, for in the very torrent, tempest, and (as I may say) whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Sida 96 - Or winds begun through hazy skies to blow, At evening a keen eastern breeze arose, And the descending rain unsullied froze. Soon as the silent shades of night withdrew, The ruddy morn...
Sida 251 - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature; for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end both at the first, and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.