Modern English Drama: Dryden, Sheridan, Goldsmith, Shelley, Browning, ByronP. F. Collier & son, 1909 - 444 páginas |
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... Beatrice which is preserved in the Colonna Palace , and my servant instantly recognized it as the portrait of La Cenci . This national and universal interest which the story produces and has produced for two centuries and among all ...
... Beatrice which is preserved in the Colonna Palace , and my servant instantly recognized it as the portrait of La Cenci . This national and universal interest which the story produces and has produced for two centuries and among all ...
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... Beatrice had thought in this manner she would have been wiser and better ; but she would never have been a tragic character : the few whom such an exhibition would have interested , could never have been sufficiently interested for a ...
... Beatrice had thought in this manner she would have been wiser and better ; but she would never have been a tragic character : the few whom such an exhibition would have interested , could never have been sufficiently interested for a ...
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... Beatrice to new outrages . I have avoided with great care in writing this play the intro- duction of what is ... Beatrice's description of the chasm appointed for her father's murder should be judged to be of that nature . " In a ...
... Beatrice to new outrages . I have avoided with great care in writing this play the intro- duction of what is ... Beatrice's description of the chasm appointed for her father's murder should be judged to be of that nature . " In a ...
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... Beatrice at the Colonna Palace is admirable as a work if art ; it was taken by Guido during her confinement in prison . But it is most interesting as a just representation of one of the loveliest specimens of the workmanship of Nature ...
... Beatrice at the Colonna Palace is admirable as a work if art ; it was taken by Guido during her confinement in prison . But it is most interesting as a just representation of one of the loveliest specimens of the workmanship of Nature ...
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... BEATRICE , his Daughter . The SCENE lies principally in Rome , but changes during the fourth Act to Petrella , a castle among the Apulian Apennines . Time . During the Pontificate of Clement VIII . ACT I SCENE I. - An Apartment in the ...
... BEATRICE , his Daughter . The SCENE lies principally in Rome , but changes during the fourth Act to Petrella , a castle among the Apulian Apennines . Time . During the Pontificate of Clement VIII . ACT I SCENE I. - An Apartment in the ...
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Términos y frases comunes
ALEX Antony Austin BEATRICE believe BERNARDO brother Cæsar CAMILLO Cenci Charles CHARMION child CLEO Cleopatra Colonna Palace CRAB crime curse dare dear death deed DOLA Dolabella earth Egad Enter Exeunt Exit eyes Farewell father fear fortune gentleman GERARD GIACOMO give GUENDOLEN hand happy HARDCASTLE HAST hear heard heart Heaven honour hope hour LADY SNEER Lady Sneerwell LADY TEAZ leave live look lord LUCRETIA madam Maria Marlow MARZIO MERTOUN MILDRED MISS HARD MISS NEV MISS NEVILLE mother never night o'er OCTAV Octavia OLIMPIO ORSINO passion pity pray Rowley ruin SAVELLA SCENE servant SIR CHA SIR OLIV SIR PET Sir Peter smile soul speak spirit sure SURF talk Teazle tell thee there's thine thing Thorold thou art thought TONY TRESHAM truth twas VENT Ventidius wife word wretch young Zounds
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Página 412 - Beautiful ! How beautiful is all this visible world ! How glorious in its action and itself! But we, who name ourselves its sovereigns, we, Half dust, half deity, alike unfit To sink or soar...
Página 206 - You know our agreement, sir. You allow me the morning to receive and pay visits, and to dress in my own manner; and in the evening, I put on my housewife's dress to please you.
Página 211 - At present, however, we are not likely to receive any answer. TONY. No offence, gentlemen. But I'm told you have been inquiring for one Mr. Hardcastle in these parts. Do you know what part of the country you are in 1 HAST.
Página 68 - Can I do this? Ah, no; my love's so true That I can neither hide it where it is, Nor show it where it is not. Nature meant me A wife, a silly, harmless, household dove, , Fond without art, and kind without deceit; But Fortune, that has made a mistress of me, Has thrust me out to the wide world, unfurnished Of falsehood to be happy. Alex. Force yourself. Th' event will be, your lover will return Doubly desirous to possess the good Which once he feared to lose.
Página 55 - She lay, and leant her cheek upon her hand, And cast a look so languishingly sweet, As if, secure of all beholders...
Página 28 - Lie there, thou shadow of an emperor; The place thou pressest on thy mother earth Is all thy empire now: now it contains thee; Some few days hence, and then 'twill be too large, When thou'rt contracted in thy...
Página 130 - Nay, now, Lady Sneerwell, you are severe upon the widow. Come, come, 'tis not that she paints so ill — but, when she has finished her face, she joins it on so badly to her neck, that she looks like a mended statue, in which the connoisseur may see at once that the head is modern, though the trunk's antique ! CRAB.
Página 11 - Shakespeare; and by all so variously, that their example has given me the confidence to try myself in this bow of Ulysses amongst the crowd of suitors, and, withal, to take my own measures, in aiming at the mark. I doubt not but the same motive has prevailed with all of us in this attempt; I mean the excellency of the moral: For the chief persons represented were famous patterns of unlawful love; and their end accordingly was unfortunate. All reasonable men have long since concluded...
Página 20 - For change, become their next poor tenant's guests; Drink hearty draughts of ale from plain brown bowls, And snatch the homely rasher from the coals: So you, retiring from much better cheer, For once, may venture to do penance here. And since that plenteous autumn now is past, Whose grapes and peaches have indulged your taste, Take in good part, from our poor poet's board, Such rivelled fruits as winter can afford.
Página 142 - Was ever man so crossed as I am, everything conspiring to fret me ! I had not been involved in matrimony a fortnight before her father, a hale and hearty man, died, on purpose, I believe, for the pleasure of plaguing me with the care of his daughter.— [Lady Teazle sings without.] But here comes my helpmate ! She appears in great good humour. How happy I should be if I could tease her into loving me, though but a little ! Enter LADY TEAZLE.