The London review, conducted by R. Cumberland, Volume 1Richard Cumberland 1809 |
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... excite com- passion . Mrs. Cibber was extremely elegant and alluring in her action ; her very frame was fashioned to engage your pity , for it seemed wasted with sorrow and sensibility ; the cheek was hollow , and the eye was joyless ...
... excite com- passion . Mrs. Cibber was extremely elegant and alluring in her action ; her very frame was fashioned to engage your pity , for it seemed wasted with sorrow and sensibility ; the cheek was hollow , and the eye was joyless ...
Page 10
... excite the tender passions . She had more variation and flexibility of tone than Mrs. Cibber , and her eyes , were powerful auxiliaries to her voice and action . She was not exclusively a tragic actress , but filled the characters of ...
... excite the tender passions . She had more variation and flexibility of tone than Mrs. Cibber , and her eyes , were powerful auxiliaries to her voice and action . She was not exclusively a tragic actress , but filled the characters of ...
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... excite curiosity and sympathy ; but now , repetition has weakened their effect at best , and Mr. Campbell has not made the most ingenious use even of their remaining capa- bility to please . As to his recognitions , they excite no ...
... excite curiosity and sympathy ; but now , repetition has weakened their effect at best , and Mr. Campbell has not made the most ingenious use even of their remaining capa- bility to please . As to his recognitions , they excite no ...
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... excite our affection for his character , lead at last to the blow that destroys him . - Physicians have declared , that men are born with the seeds of their mortal diseases : and thus should the previous events of a narrative contain ...
... excite our affection for his character , lead at last to the blow that destroys him . - Physicians have declared , that men are born with the seeds of their mortal diseases : and thus should the previous events of a narrative contain ...
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... excite our imaginations to work out for themselves a tissue of pleasing conceptions . " - From which reasonings it is presently inferred , that such a poem as Gertrude is preferable to a work which agitates the reader with a more direct ...
... excite our imaginations to work out for themselves a tissue of pleasing conceptions . " - From which reasonings it is presently inferred , that such a poem as Gertrude is preferable to a work which agitates the reader with a more direct ...
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