 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...  The Prose Works of Charles Lamb - Page 123by Charles Lamb - 1836Full view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | 1815 - 558 pages
...— 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...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... | |
 | 1815 - 554 pages
...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...the same play so often affects us in the reading and in the seeing. It requires little reflection to perceive, that if those characters in Shakspeare which... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1818 - 288 pages
...— 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...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... | |
 | Charles Lamb - Essays - 1835 - 440 pages
...poem. But in the poem we for a while have Paradisaical senses given What we see upon a stage is body and bodily action; what we are conscious of in reading...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... | |
 | Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) - 1846 - 302 pages
...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,...is almost exclusively the mind and its movements." ' 1 Works of Charles Lamb, 1818, vol. ii., p. 27. In one of " Two Old Men's Tales," 1834, entitled... | |
 | Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) - English literature - 1846 - 216 pages
...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,...is almost exclusively the mind and its movements." ' 1 Works of Charles Lamb, 1818, vol. ii., p. 27. In one of " Two Old Men's Tales," 1834, entitled... | |
 | Thomas Heywood, William Rowley - Drama, Medieval - 1846 - 214 pages
...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,...is almost exclusively the mind and its movements." 1 In one of " Two Old Men's Tales," 1834, entitled The Deformed, there is a story of a Hunchback Lover,... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - English literature - 1850 - 490 pages
...— 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...very different sort of delight with which the same |>lay so often affects us in the reading and the seeing. It requires little reflection to perceive,... | |
 | Thomas Heywood - 1850 - 622 pages
...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,...is almost exclusively the mind and its movements." ' 1 Works of Charles Lamb, 1818, vol. ii., p. 27. In one of " Two Old Men's Tales," 1834, entitled... | |
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