The Idle Man, Bände 1-2Wiley and Halsted, 1821 |
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... seen lurking in what I write , I have thought it best to confess it here , and let my frankness go as far as it will in extenuation of my failing . In such a work as I propose putting out , poli- tics , dry discussions , and scientific ...
... seen lurking in what I write , I have thought it best to confess it here , and let my frankness go as far as it will in extenuation of my failing . In such a work as I propose putting out , poli- tics , dry discussions , and scientific ...
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... seen one in whom some low vice had become a habit , make himself the plaything of a set of riotous children , with as much delight in his countenance as if no- thing but goodness had ever been expressed in it ; and have felt as much of ...
... seen one in whom some low vice had become a habit , make himself the plaything of a set of riotous children , with as much delight in his countenance as if no- thing but goodness had ever been expressed in it ; and have felt as much of ...
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... seen , very much what Shakspeare is to other dramatists . One player is called classical ; another makes fine points here , and another there . Mr. Kean makes more fine points than all of them together . But , in him , these are only ...
... seen , very much what Shakspeare is to other dramatists . One player is called classical ; another makes fine points here , and another there . Mr. Kean makes more fine points than all of them together . But , in him , these are only ...
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... - making which they have seen , expression , and the stage stride , dignity , and the noisy declamation , and all the rodomontade of acting , energy and passion , complain that Mr. Kean is apt to be extravagant ; when in truth 36.
... - making which they have seen , expression , and the stage stride , dignity , and the noisy declamation , and all the rodomontade of acting , energy and passion , complain that Mr. Kean is apt to be extravagant ; when in truth 36.
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... Oh what a world is this , when what is comely Envenoms him that bears it ! I owe a debt of gratitude to Mr. Kean for the good which the little I have seen of him has done my mind and heart . Would that what I could 52.
... Oh what a world is this , when what is comely Envenoms him that bears it ! I owe a debt of gratitude to Mr. Kean for the good which the little I have seen of him has done my mind and heart . Would that what I could 52.
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Abel amongst ancholy answered arms asked Aston beautiful Beckford began bright called character cheerful choly countenance cried curse dared dark delight door drew earth Edward entered Esther eyes face father fear feel fell felt Frank give gone grave grief hand happy heard heart hour idle Isaac Kean knew leave lence light live look lovely stream manner Mary melan melancholy mind mother moved myste nature ness never night Othello passed passions Paul Paul's pheme racter rest ringdove round Sally Wentworth scarcely seemed sight soon soul sound speak spirit spoke stood strange suddenly talk tears tell thing Thomas Thornton Thornton Thorntonville thou thought Tom's took touched trees tremulous truth turned uttered various his employments voice walked WILEY & HALSTED woman world Calls idle
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 57 - With amethyst and topaz — and the place Lit up, most royally, with the pure beam That dwells in them. Or haply the vast hall Of fairy palace, that outlasts the night...
Seite 63 - I envy thy stream, as it glides along, Through its beautiful banks, in a trance of song. Though forced to drudge for the dregs of men, And scrawl strange words with the barbarous pen, And mingle among the jostling crowd, Where the sons of strife are subtle and loud...
Seite 62 - Yet fair as thou art, thou shunnest to glide, Beautiful stream ! by the village side ; But windest away from haunts of men, To quiet valley and shaded glen ; And forest, and meadow, and slope of hill, Around thee, are lonely, lovely, and still.
Seite 74 - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape.
Seite 58 - Tis pleasant to behold the wreaths of smoke Roll up among the maples of the hill, Where the shrill sound of youthful voices wakes The shriller echo, as the clear pure lymph...
Seite 40 - Edgar as an insane brother, is another instance of the justness of Kean's conceptions. Nor does he lose the air of insanity, even in the fine moralizing parts, and where he inveighs against the corruptions of the world: There is a madness even in his reason.
Seite 57 - Come when the rains Have glazed the snow, and clothed the trees with ice, While the slant sun of February pours Into the bowers a flood of light. Approach ! The incrusted surface shall upbear thy steps, And the broad arching portals of the grove Welcome thy entering. Look ! the...
Seite 3 - O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day ; Which now shows all the beauty of the sun, And by and by a cloud takes all away ! Re-enter PANTHINO.
Seite 58 - Scarce stir the branches. Lodged in sunny cleft, Where the cold breezes come not, blooms alone The little wind-flower, whose just opened eye Is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at — Startling the loiterer in the naked groves With unexpected beauty, for the time Of blossoms and green leaves is yet afar.
Seite 57 - ... shall upbear thy steps, And the broad arching portals of the grove Welcome thy entering. Look ! the massy trunks Are cased in the pure crystal ; each light spray, Nodding and tinkling in the breath of heaven, Is studded with its trembling water-drops, That stream with rainbow radiance as they move. But round the parent stem the long low boughs Bend, in a glittering ring, and arbors hide The glassy floor.