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...every occasion, perhaps because she was conscious of being the cause of so much laughter in others. Beatrice had little sentiment; just enough for a great lady, of which she is Shakspere's best type. In this she differed from Viola and Rosalind. She was extremely witty, the wittiest character, except perhaps Benedict, in English literature. Portia was a very 'nice' personage. She had a very sweet and skillful tongue, and a pleasant and graceful, though keen, wit. But she was what we should now call a little strong minded. She was the first dim prevision of the new woman...
...authentic Danish prince as of Hamlet? Have your ever rightly considered what the mere ability to read means? That it is the key which admits us to the whole world of thought and fancy and imagination? to the company of saint and sage, of the wisest and the wittiest at their wisest and wittiest moments? That it enables us to see with the keenest eyes, hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time? More than that, it annihilates time and space for us; it revives for us without a miracle the Age of Wonder...
...writers, Congreve was perhaps the wittiest. Farquaar excelled in the splendid action which he introduced into his plays. Nowhere does this come nearer perfection than in "The Beaux Stratagem." The other of Farquaar's plays which every one should read is "Sir Harry Wildair." Charles Lamb always claimed that these plays were not immoral in their influence for the simple reason that no one believed in them. The heroes are essentially gentlemen,-or rather "truly good fellows," in spite of their seeming indecency. From Farquaar Sheridan really got his Charles Surface and Captain Absolute...
...successfully played. Last year two comedies, instead of one, were given, with even greater eclat: "Les Deux Sourds" and "L'Affaire de la Rue de Lourcine." This year, however, the Conference has proceeded on an even larger scale and will bring forth "Le Voyage a Dieppe," one of the wittiest and liveliest of the comedies on the modern French stage. It is in three acts and requires a large cast, but the assignment of parts is an excellent one. The annual play of the French society has become one of the features of the year, and we hope that every...
...dignified a paper. There is an element in them which we do not like in an editorial, but which we find appropriate and amusing in the "College Gossip." The Hamilton Lit. is better in its local than in its literary department. The Acta Columbiana is the brightest, raciest, wittiest of our exchanges; but its tone is not always as elevated as we could wish, and its dress is in bad taste. The contrast between the different styles of type is too striking. The Columbia Spectator, on the other hand, presents a remarkably neat appearance. There is a good deal...