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In the mean time, the Shaksperian Gallery was offered for sale; and the gentlemen interested in this project raised a sum of money, by subscription, and purchased that building with the intention of making it the approach to a proposed national gallery. From Mr. Percival the scheme met with a far different reception. He listened to the representations which Mr.
While this form of nonsense is conveyed in the popular use of words, there must be plenty of well-dressed ignorance at leisure to run through a box of books, which will feel itself initiated in the freemasonry of intellect by a view of life which might take for a Shaksperian motto "Fair is foul and foul is fair, Hover through the fog and filthy air"
At first we are told by the patron who earliest recognized her genius, 'a delirious popularity surrounded the young tragedienne, and with her the antique tragedy which she had revived. How different from the original relation of Kemble, Kean, or Siddons to the Shaksperian drama!
O this gloomy world I In what a shadow or deep pit of darkness Doth womanish and fearful mankind live! Webster had an intense and somber genius. In diction he was the most Shaksperian of the Elizabethan dramatists, and there are sudden gleams of beauty among his dark horrors which light up a whole scene with some abrupt touch of feeling. Cover her face: mine eyes dazzle: she died young,
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