Edinburgh Dramatic Review, Volúmenes5-6

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James L. Huie., 1823

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Página 68 - For mine is the lay that lightly floats, And mine are the murmuring, dying notes, That fall as soft as snow on the sea, And melt in the heart as instantly...
Página 71 - Whatever is most intoxicating in the odour of a southern spring, languishing in the song of the nightingale, or voluptuous in the first opening of the rose, is to be found in this poem.
Página 37 - ... which he has devoted his talents — a style which is a great favourite with an immense majority of the playgoing public. This style may be called the purely romantic; there is little or nothing classical in it. The author does not profess to provide a public entertainment at his own entire expense, and from his own proper funds, but contracts with the managers to get up a striking and impressive exhibition in conjunction with the scene-painter, the scene-shifter, the musical composer, the orchestra,...
Página 57 - All good and honour might therein be read; For there their dwelling was. And when she spake, Sweet words like dropping honey she did shed; And twixt the pearls and rubies softly brake A silver sound, that heavenly music seem'd to make.
Página 189 - Was this then the fate of that high-gifted man, " The pride of the palace, the bower and the hall, " The orator, — dramatist, — minstrel, — who ran " Through each mode of the lyre, and was master of all...
Página 77 - ... penance than rejoiced therein, when they considered that the protector procured it more of a corrupt intent than any virtuous affection.
Página 131 - On his release from prison, he gave an entertainment to his friends, among whom were Camden and Selden. In the midst of the entertainment, his mother, more an antique Roman than a Briton, drank to him, and...
Página 41 - At last a soft and solemn-breathing sound Rose like a stream of rich distill'd perfumes, And stole upon the air...
Página 47 - ... the opera the poetry is merely an accessory, the means of connecting the different parts together; and it is almost lost amidst its many and more favoured accompaniments. The best prescription for the composition of an opera is, take a rapid poetical sketch and then fill up and colour the outlines by the other arts. This anarchy of the arts, where music, dancing, and decoration...

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