Thoughts and After-thoughtsCassell, 1913 - 315 pages |
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Page 44
... beautiful Shakespearian presentations from 1874 to 1896 ; presentations which included Hamlet , Macbeth , Othello , Much Ado About Nothing , King Lear , Romeo and Juliet , The Merchant of Venice , Henry VIII . , Richard III . , and ...
... beautiful Shakespearian presentations from 1874 to 1896 ; presentations which included Hamlet , Macbeth , Othello , Much Ado About Nothing , King Lear , Romeo and Juliet , The Merchant of Venice , Henry VIII . , Richard III . , and ...
Page 56
... beautiful and costly as the subject of the drama being performed seems to demand ; that it should not be subordinate to , but rather harmonious with , the dramatic interest , just as every other element of art introduced into the ...
... beautiful and costly as the subject of the drama being performed seems to demand ; that it should not be subordinate to , but rather harmonious with , the dramatic interest , just as every other element of art introduced into the ...
Page 60
... beautiful lines Shake- speare regretted the deficiencies of the stage of his day , for it is reasonable to suppose that in writing those lines he did not mean the opposite of what he said , as we are ingeniously told he did . Here it ...
... beautiful lines Shake- speare regretted the deficiencies of the stage of his day , for it is reasonable to suppose that in writing those lines he did not mean the opposite of what he said , as we are ingeniously told he did . Here it ...
Page 85
... beautiful song fading into silence , or as a fountain rising higher and higher till , kissing heaven , it should spend its splendour in prismatic spray and so gently fall into the peaceful basin of Eternity . To perish of perfection ...
... beautiful song fading into silence , or as a fountain rising higher and higher till , kissing heaven , it should spend its splendour in prismatic spray and so gently fall into the peaceful basin of Eternity . To perish of perfection ...
Page 152
... beautiful words : 66 Now cracks a noble heart . Good - night , sweet Prince , And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest . " And so , with the faint echo of heavenly music ringing in our ears , the record of Hamlet's storm- toss'd life ...
... beautiful words : 66 Now cracks a noble heart . Good - night , sweet Prince , And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest . " And so , with the faint echo of heavenly music ringing in our ears , the record of Hamlet's storm- toss'd life ...
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