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... theatre , and hotly reigns , Killing the hearers ' hearts , that the vast rooms Stand empty , like so many dead - men's tombs , Can call the banish'd auditor home , and tie His ear ( with golden chain ) to his melody : Can draw with ...
... theatre , and hotly reigns , Killing the hearers ' hearts , that the vast rooms Stand empty , like so many dead - men's tombs , Can call the banish'd auditor home , and tie His ear ( with golden chain ) to his melody : Can draw with ...
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... Theatre his comedy of A Game at Chess , which after being performed nine days in succession was prohibited by a royal mandate , both the author and the actors being summoned before the Privy Council . In this ' very scandalous comedy ...
... Theatre his comedy of A Game at Chess , which after being performed nine days in succession was prohibited by a royal mandate , both the author and the actors being summoned before the Privy Council . In this ' very scandalous comedy ...
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... theatre was all in all to him . It seemed to him ( as he says in the vigorous lines , The Author to his Booke , prefixed to The Apology ) a world in itself ; and within its walls his ambition as a dramatist found its limits . He ...
... theatre was all in all to him . It seemed to him ( as he says in the vigorous lines , The Author to his Booke , prefixed to The Apology ) a world in itself ; and within its walls his ambition as a dramatist found its limits . He ...
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... Theatre of the Greeks , pp . 163 , 196 . According to Lord Holland , the number of lines by Lope de Vega said to be actually printed amounts to 21,300,000 . But this would include many other besides dramatic productions ; and Lord ...
... Theatre of the Greeks , pp . 163 , 196 . According to Lord Holland , the number of lines by Lope de Vega said to be actually printed amounts to 21,300,000 . But this would include many other besides dramatic productions ; and Lord ...
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... Theatres , with numerous and mighty Auditories . ' It is however not easy to con- ceive the nature of theatrical performances which , taking into account only the number of personages who make their appearance in these plays , must have ...
... Theatres , with numerous and mighty Auditories . ' It is however not easy to con- ceive the nature of theatrical performances which , taking into account only the number of personages who make their appearance in these plays , must have ...
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Page 230 - Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights, Wherein you spend your folly : There's nought in this life sweet If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy, O sweetest Melancholy...
Page 527 - O gracious God! how far have we Profaned thy heavenly gift of Poesy! Made prostitute and profligate the Muse, Debased to each obscene and impious use, Whose harmony was first ordained above, For tongues of angels and for hymns of love!
Page 204 - All, all of a piece throughout ; Thy chase had a beast in view : Thy wars brought nothing about ; Thy lovers were all untrue. 'Tis well an old age is out, And time to begin a new.
Page 78 - Shakspeare have neither child of their own, nor seem to be descended from any parent. They are foul Anomalies, of whom we know not whence they are sprung, nor whether they have beginning or ending. As they are without human passions, so they seem to be without human relations. They come with thunder and lightning, and vanish to airy musiC. This is all we know of them. Except Hecate, they have no names ; which heightens their mysteriousness.
Page 77 - Those originate deeds of blood and begin bad impulses to men. From the moment that their eyes first meet with Macbeth's, he is spell-bound. That meeting sways his destiny. He can never break the fascination. These witches can hurt the body ; those have power over the soul.