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" What we see upon a stage is body and bodily action ; what we are conscious of in reading is almost exclusively the mind, and its movements : and this I think may sufficiently account for the very different sort of delight with which the same play so often... "
Rosamund Gray, Essays, Letters, and Poems - Page 97
by Charles Lamb - 1856 - 425 pages
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The Reflector: A Quarterly Magazine, on Subjects of Philosophy ..., Volume 2

Leigh Hunt - English literature - 1811 - 510 pages
...and obvious prejudices.* What we see upon a stage is body nnd bodily action ; what we are con. scious of in reading is almost exclusively the mind, and its movements : and this 1 think may sufficiently account for the very different soil of delight with which the same play so...
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The Analectic Magazine, Volume 5

1815 - 558 pages
...motives — all that which is unseen — to overpower and reconcile the first and obvious prejudices.* What we see upon a stage is body and bodily action...almost exclusively the mind, and its movements; and (his I think may sufficiently account for the very different sort of delight with which the same play...
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The Analectic Magazine...: Comprising Original Reviews, Biography ..., Volume 5

1815 - 554 pages
...motives — all that which is unseen — to overpower and reconcile the first and obvious prejudices.* What we see upon a stage is body and bodily action ; what we are conscious of in reading ia almost exclusively the mind, and its movements ; and this I think may sufficiently account for the...
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The Works of Charles Lamb: In Two Parts, Volume 2

Charles Lamb - 1818 - 288 pages
...motives, — all that which is unseen, — to overpower and reconcile the first and obvious prejudices.* What we see upon a stage is body and bodily action;...the mind, and its movements : and this I think may * The error of supposing that because Othello's colour does not offend us in the reading, it should...
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Rosamund Gray: Recollections of Christ's Hospital, Etc. Etc

Charles Lamb - 1835 - 390 pages
...picture. The painters themselves feel this, as is apparent by the awkward shifts they have recourse and bodily action ; what we are conscious of in reading...seeing. It requires little reflection to perceive, that if those characters in Shakspeare which are within the precincts of nature, have yet something...
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Rosamund Gray: Recollections of Christ's Hospital, Etc. Etc

Charles Lamb - 1835 - 376 pages
...picture. The painters themselves feel thi>, as is apparent liy the awkward shifts they have recourse and bodily action; what we are conscious of in reading...seeing. It requires little reflection to perceive, that if those characters in Shakspeare which are within the precincts of nature, have yet something...
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Essays of Elia

Charles Lamb - Essays - 1835 - 440 pages
...affect us just as they do jn the poem. But in the poem we for a while have Paradisaical senses given What we see upon a stage is body and bodily action;...movements: and this I think may sufficiently account ibr the very different sort of delight with which the same play so often a fleet s us ia the reading...
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The Prose Works of Charles Lamb, Volume 1

Charles Lamb - English essays - 1836 - 404 pages
...picture. The painters themf elves feel this, as is apparent by the awkward shifts they have recourse and bodily action ; what we are conscious of in reading...seeing. It requires little reflection to perceive, that if those characters in Shakspeare which are within the precincts of nature, have yet something...
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The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed, His Letters, and a Sketch ...

Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 486 pages
...motives — all that which is unseen — to overpower and reconcile the first and obvious prejudices.* What we see upon a stage is body and bodily action...seeing. It requires little reflection to perceive, that if those characters in Shakspeare which are within the precincts of nature, have yet something...
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The prose works of Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb - English literature - 1838 - 376 pages
...us, which vanish when we see a. man and his wife without clothes in the picture. The pninters themand bodily action ; what we are conscious of in reading...seeing. It requires little reflection to perceive, that if those characters in Shakspeare which are within the precincts of nature, have yet something...
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