The Collected Works of William Hazlitt, Volume 13J. M. Dent & Company, 1903 |
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Page 171
... Bertram · . 239 Romeo and Juliet 242 Mr. Kemble's Sir Giles Overreach 244 Adelaide , or the Emigrants • • 245 Every Man in his Humour • 247 Mrs. Siddons . 249 New English Opera House • The Jealous Wife The Man of the World Miss 171.
... Bertram · . 239 Romeo and Juliet 242 Mr. Kemble's Sir Giles Overreach 244 Adelaide , or the Emigrants • • 245 Every Man in his Humour • 247 Mrs. Siddons . 249 New English Opera House • The Jealous Wife The Man of the World Miss 171.
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... Kemble's Cato The Iron Chest Mr. Kemble's King John 338 The Libertine 341 Barbarossa 342 Mrs. Siddons's Lady Macbeth 342 Mr. Maywood's Shylock 345 Mr. Kemble's Retirement 332 Don Juan 334 The Conquest of Taranto 336 The Touch - Stone ...
... Kemble's Cato The Iron Chest Mr. Kemble's King John 338 The Libertine 341 Barbarossa 342 Mrs. Siddons's Lady Macbeth 342 Mr. Maywood's Shylock 345 Mr. Kemble's Retirement 332 Don Juan 334 The Conquest of Taranto 336 The Touch - Stone ...
Page 176
... Kemble . ' This was all could get from them , and this they thought quite sufficient to prove that he was not any thing , because he was not something quite different from himself . They did not consider that an actor might have the eye ...
... Kemble . ' This was all could get from them , and this they thought quite sufficient to prove that he was not any thing , because he was not something quite different from himself . They did not consider that an actor might have the eye ...
Page 180
... Kemble wants of perfection . He reminds us of the descriptions of the far - darting eye ' of Garrick . We are anxious to see him in Norval and Richard , and anticipate more complete satisfaction from his perform- ance of the latter part ...
... Kemble wants of perfection . He reminds us of the descriptions of the far - darting eye ' of Garrick . We are anxious to see him in Norval and Richard , and anticipate more complete satisfaction from his perform- ance of the latter part ...
Page 181
... Kemble , in the same character . In some parts , however , we thought him deficient in dignity ; and particularly in the scenes of state business , there was not a sufficient air of artificial authority . The fine assumption of ...
... Kemble , in the same character . In some parts , however , we thought him deficient in dignity ; and particularly in the scenes of state business , there was not a sufficient air of artificial authority . The fine assumption of ...
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Page 210 - O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From this world-wearied flesh.
Page 207 - I have liv'd long enough : my way of life Is fallen into the sear, the yellow leaf : And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses not loud, but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
Page 55 - Why so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale?
Page 24 - The hedge-sparrow fed the cuckoo so long, That it had its head bit off by its young.
Page 450 - Methinks I should know you and know this man; yet I am doubtful: for I am mainly ignorant what place this is, and all the skill I have remembers not these garments; nor I know not where I did lodge last night.
Page 449 - Tom? whom the foul fiend hath led through fire and through flame, through ford and whirlpool, o'er bog and quagmire; that hath laid knives under his pillow, and halters in his pew...
Page 26 - ... sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech ; in a tart irony ; in a lusty hyperbole ; in a startling metaphor ; in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a...
Page 471 - Man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven As make the angels weep.
Page 276 - All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence ? We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key ; As if our hands, our sides...
Page 19 - Wit lying most in the assemblage of Ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant Pictures, and agreeable Visions in the fancy...