TragediesEdward Moxon, 1844 - 276 pages |
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... order than that which finds its way unto the stage , such a declaration would be very likely ascribed to prejudice , but Mr. Serjeant Talfourd has most handsomely proclaimed the same truth ; and from his competence , in every point of ...
... order than that which finds its way unto the stage , such a declaration would be very likely ascribed to prejudice , but Mr. Serjeant Talfourd has most handsomely proclaimed the same truth ; and from his competence , in every point of ...
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... orders has conduced greatly to impair the love for the Drama , and to impoverish the managers of theatres , I have always declined to solicit or use them ; and have never obtained , or written , or given one on any representation of ...
... orders has conduced greatly to impair the love for the Drama , and to impoverish the managers of theatres , I have always declined to solicit or use them ; and have never obtained , or written , or given one on any representation of ...
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... order ; some of which have been acted ; others are incapable of being acted ; and others will be acted , when actors of true passion shall be found , but not with real success till then . Excluding from consideration the noble dramatic ...
... order ; some of which have been acted ; others are incapable of being acted ; and others will be acted , when actors of true passion shall be found , but not with real success till then . Excluding from consideration the noble dramatic ...
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... order to involve such a character in circumstances which might excite terror or grief or joy , to introduce other machinery than that of passions working naturally within , or events arising from ordinary and probable motives without ...
... order to involve such a character in circumstances which might excite terror or grief or joy , to introduce other machinery than that of passions working naturally within , or events arising from ordinary and probable motives without ...
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... order and to the effect in which they are now completed , and made some progress in an opening scene of which little now remains . The attempt was soon laid aside ; for I found the composition of dramatic blank verse even more diffi ...
... order and to the effect in which they are now completed , and made some progress in an opening scene of which little now remains . The attempt was soon laid aside ; for I found the composition of dramatic blank verse even more diffi ...
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Adras Adrastus AGENOR ALASTER Argos arm'd Athenian Athens bear beauty bless blood brave breathe brother CALCHAS canst CASSANDER clansmen CLEMANTHE CLEON Corinth Creon Creusa CRYTHES Ctes CTESIPHON dare death delightful Dost thou Drama duty embrace Enter Exeunt Exit eyes fancy fate father fear feel friends gaze Glen Glencoe Glenlyon glorious glory gods grace grief Habra HALBERT hand happy hath HAYMARKET THEATRE hear heart Heaven Helen Helen Faucit HENRY MACDONALD honour hope hour HYLLUS IPHITUS IRUS ISMENE king kneel LADY MACDONALD leave live look Lycus Mac Ian Macready MEDON mortal mournful noble o'er palace passion Pentheus PHOCION rock SCENE seek shame slave soldiers solemn sorrow soul speak spirit strange sweet sword thee thine Thoas thou art thou hast thou wilt thought TIMOCLES tremble twas voice wait word wouldst youth
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Page 35 - Renews the life of joy in happiest hours. It is a little thing to speak a phrase Of common comfort which by daily use Has almost lost its sense ; yet on the ear Of him who thought to die unmourned 'twill fall Like choicest music...
Page 35 - Of cool refreshment, drain'd by fever'd lips, May give a shock of pleasure to the frame More exquisite than when nectarean juice Renews the life of joy in happiest hours. It is a little thing to speak a phrase Of common comfort which by daily use Has almost lost its sense ; yet on the ear Of him who thought to die...
Page 35 - Tis a little thing To give a cup of water ; yet its draught Of cool refreshment, drained by fevered lips, May give a shock of pleasure to the frame More exquisite than when Nectarean juice Renews the life of joy in happiest hours.
Page 168 - The hand that mingled in the meal At midnight drew the felon steel, And gave the host's kind breast to feel Meed for his hospitality...
Page 270 - Hill, however, sympathised with the distress, and even tears of the old chieftain, and gave him a letter to Sir Colin Campbell of Ardkinlas, Sheriff of Argyleshire, requesting him to receive the "lost sheep...
Page 273 - You are to have especial care,' that the old fox and his sons do upon no account escape your hands. You are to secure all the avenues, that no man escape. This you are to put in execution at five...
Page 93 - Prithee no more. Argives ! I have a boon To crave of you ; — whene'er I shall rejoin In death the father from whose heart in...
Page 92 - And learn'd the need of luxury. I grant For thee and thy brave comrades, ample share Of such rich treasure as my stores contain, To grace thy passage to some distant land, Where, if an honest cause engage thy sword, May glorious laurels wreath it ! In our realm We shall not need it longer.
Page 90 - I do ! I do ! ION. If for thy brother's and thy father's sake Thou art content to live, the healer, Time. Will reconcile thee to the lovely things Of this delightful world, — and if another, A happier — no, I cannot bid thee love Another ! — I did think I could have said it, But 'tis in vain. CLEMANTHE. Thou art mine own then still ? ION.
Page 53 - ... Faint-hearted from the reckoning of our span Of mortal days, we pamper the fond wish For long duration in a line of kings : If the rich pageantry of thoughts must fade All unsubstantial as the regal hues Of eve which purpled them, our cunning frailty Must robe a living image with their pomp, And wreath a diadem around its brow, In which our sunny fantasies may live Empearl'd, and gleam, in fatal splendour, far On after ages.