Autobiography of an Actress: Or, Eight Years on the StageTicknor, Reed, and Fields, 1854 - Всего страниц: 448 |
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Autobiography of an Actress: Or, Eight Years on the Stage Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie Полный просмотр - 1854 |
Autobiography of an Actress: Or, Eight Years on the Stage Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie Полный просмотр - 1854 |
Autobiography of an Actress, Or, Eight Years on the Stage Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie Полный просмотр - 1854 |
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Стр. 166 - Of all that is most beauteous, imaged there In happier beauty ; more pellucid streams, An ampler ether, a diviner air, And fields invested with purpureal gleams ; Climes which the sun, who sheds the brightest day Earth knows, is all unworthy to survey. Yet there the soul shall enter which hath earned That privilege by virtue.
Стр. 440 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both!
Стр. 444 - I have heard That guilty creatures, sitting at a play, Have by the very cunning of the scene Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions; For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.
Стр. 436 - Comedy is an imitation of the common errors of our life, which he representeth in the most ridiculous and scornful sort that may be, so as it is impossible that any beholder can be content to be such a one.
Стр. 303 - I have great hope in that: for in her youth There is a prone and speechless dialect Such as moves men; beside, she hath prosperous art When she will play with reason and discourse, And well she can persuade.
Стр. 453 - With Portrait. Price 75 cents. BIOGRAPHICAL ESSAYS. Price 75 cents. MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS. Price 75 cents. THE CAESARS. Price 75 cents. LITERARY REMINISCENCES. 2 Vols.
Стр. 453 - ALFRED TENNYSON'S WRITINGS. POETICAL WORKS. With Portrait. 2 vols. Boards. $1.50. THE PRINCESS. Boards. Price 50 cents. IN MEMORIAM. Cloth. Price 75 cents. BARRY CORNWALL'S WRITINGS. ENGLISH SONGS AND OTHER SMALL POEMS. Enlarged Edition. Price $1.00. ESSAYS AND TALES IN PROSE.
Стр. 120 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet But hark!
Стр. 437 - So that the right use of comedy will, I think, by nobody be blamed, and much less of the high and excellent tragedy, that openeth the greatest wounds, and showeth forth the ulcers that are covered with tissue...