Charles Kemble's Shakspere readings, a selection of the plays as read by him in public, ed. by R.J. Lane, Volume 1 |
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... mark the scenes and passages that were to be omitted ; and , hap- pily , his marks were extended to the accen- tuation of words , and an occasional syllabic stress ; to which my experience of his read- ing has enabled me to add emphatic ...
... mark the scenes and passages that were to be omitted ; and , hap- pily , his marks were extended to the accen- tuation of words , and an occasional syllabic stress ; to which my experience of his read- ing has enabled me to add emphatic ...
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... notes and the critical value of Mr. Kemble's emphatic marks , which cannot fail to suggest those refinements of diction and of feeling that marked his delivery of the Poet's words : and it will be seen that where vi PREFACE .
... notes and the critical value of Mr. Kemble's emphatic marks , which cannot fail to suggest those refinements of diction and of feeling that marked his delivery of the Poet's words : and it will be seen that where vi PREFACE .
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... mark me with his eye , or I Distinguish him from others , he did keep The deck , with glove , or hat , or handkerchief , Still waving , as the fits and stirs of ' s mind Could best express how slow his soùl sail'd on , How swift his ...
... mark me with his eye , or I Distinguish him from others , he did keep The deck , with glove , or hat , or handkerchief , Still waving , as the fits and stirs of ' s mind Could best express how slow his soùl sail'd on , How swift his ...
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... mark'd With Roman swords ; and my report was once First with the best of note : Cymbeline lov'd me ; And when a soldier was the theme , my name Was not far off . Then was I as a tree , Whose boughs did bend with fruit : but in one night ...
... mark'd With Roman swords ; and my report was once First with the best of note : Cymbeline lov'd me ; And when a soldier was the theme , my name Was not far off . Then was I as a tree , Whose boughs did bend with fruit : but in one night ...
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... Mark me . Ham . Ghost . I will . My hour is almost come , When I to sulphurous and tormenting flames Must render up myself . Ham . Alas , poor ghost ! Ghost . Pity me not , but lend thy serious hearing To what I shall unfold . Ham ...
... Mark me . Ham . Ghost . I will . My hour is almost come , When I to sulphurous and tormenting flames Must render up myself . Ham . Alas , poor ghost ! Ghost . Pity me not , but lend thy serious hearing To what I shall unfold . Ham ...
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Page 139 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits, and their entrances ; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms...
Page 296 - Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones; so let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus hath told you Caesar was ambitious; if it were so, it was a grievous fault; and grievously hath Caesar answer'd it. Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest, for Brutus is an honourable man; so are they all, all honourable men, . . . come I to speak in Caesar's funeral.
Page 78 - What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her/ What would he do, Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have/ He would drown the stage with tears And cleave the general ear with horrid speech, Make mad the guilty and appal the free, Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed The very faculties of eyes and ears.
Page 74 - I have of late, (but, wherefore, I know not,) lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises : and, indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition, that this goodly frame, the earth...
Page 296 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; •> I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil, that men do, lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones; \ So let it be with Caesar.
Page 85 - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Page 296 - Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And, sure, he is an honourable man. I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know.
Page 65 - I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul; freeze thy young blood ; Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres; Thy knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood : — List, list, O list!
Page 294 - As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was valiant, I honour him; but, as he was ambitious, I slew him.
Page 297 - But yesterday, the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world ; now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence. 0 masters ! if I were disposed to stir Your hearts and minds to mutiny and rage, 1 should do Brutus wrong, and Cassius wrong, Who, you all know, are honorable men.