Elegant extracts: a copious selection of passages from the most eminent prose writers, Том 21812 |
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... occasions , though no one is entitled to distinguish- ed marks of respect , every one claims , and very justly , every mark of civility and good - breeding . Ease is allowed , but carelessness and negligence are strictly forbidden . If ...
... occasions , though no one is entitled to distinguish- ed marks of respect , every one claims , and very justly , every mark of civility and good - breeding . Ease is allowed , but carelessness and negligence are strictly forbidden . If ...
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... occasions , like those of speech , which return every hour . The habit therefore of lying , when once formed , is easily extended to serve the designs of malice or interest ; like all habits , it spreads indeed of itself . As there may ...
... occasions , like those of speech , which return every hour . The habit therefore of lying , when once formed , is easily extended to serve the designs of malice or interest ; like all habits , it spreads indeed of itself . As there may ...
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... occasions ; for life , unhappy as it is , cannot supply great evils as frequently as the man of fire thinks it fit to be enraged ; therefore the first reflection upon his violence must show him that he is mean enough to be driven from ...
... occasions ; for life , unhappy as it is , cannot supply great evils as frequently as the man of fire thinks it fit to be enraged ; therefore the first reflection upon his violence must show him that he is mean enough to be driven from ...
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... occasions presented , or called it forth - I know no man un- der whose arm I should sooner have taken shelter ; —nor did this arise from any insensibility or obtuseness in his intellectual parts : -he was of a peaceful , placid nature ...
... occasions presented , or called it forth - I know no man un- der whose arm I should sooner have taken shelter ; —nor did this arise from any insensibility or obtuseness in his intellectual parts : -he was of a peaceful , placid nature ...
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... occasions , be raised to , were it rightly cultivated ? And what colour of excuse can there be , for the contempt with which we treat this part of our species ; that we should not put them upon the common foot of hu- manity ; that we ...
... occasions , be raised to , were it rightly cultivated ? And what colour of excuse can there be , for the contempt with which we treat this part of our species ; that we should not put them upon the common foot of hu- manity ; that we ...
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Страница 112 - ... 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.
Страница 245 - The business of a poet," said Imlac, "is to examine, not the individual, but the species ; to remark general properties and large appearances ; he does not number the streaks of the tulip, or describe the different shades in the verdure of the forest.
Страница 245 - He must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations — as a being superior to time and place.
Страница 243 - Whatever be the reason, it is commonly observed that the early writers are in possession of nature, and their followers of art ; that the first excel in strength and invention, and the latter in elegance and refinement.
Страница 112 - 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 any thing 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.
Страница 112 - 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 villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Страница 112 - 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. Oh, 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,...
Страница 111 - I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. 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.
Страница 252 - You seldom find him making Love in any of his Scenes, or endeavouring to move the Passions ; his genius was too sullen and saturnine to do it gracefully, especially when he knew he came after those who had performed both to such an height.
Страница 111 - 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.