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    they are led to hurry and to shorten all feeling and sentiment to gel to a ** point , " and to bring the " points" at closely together st » pctesible——aud we leave the theatre , to study Shak&peare at home .

    One line in Twelfth Night , which has often been omitted in the quoted passage , is retained by Miss Tree—and with complete success , as with truest taste—the line

    " And with a gTeen-and-yellow melancholy * — thi » epithet ( for " green and yellow" is a compound epithet , and as one word it was pronounced by the actress ) how beautifully does it blend with the visible images and ideas of mental endurements suggested by the figure of the fading flower—of her who pined in thought ! He only could fear that

    so placed it could induce low associations , whose imaginations of decay are most fondly and familiarly combined with the " symptoms" of a Stilton cheese . Nevertheless , it is not to be denied that an unskilful actor might , by laying a separate and particularising emphasis on " green" and " yellow , " make the passage mournfully laughable , and thus is it ever that the expression of genuine emotion subdues , neutralises , transmutes ,

    vulgarity of word , and of station too . It is by this same principle that , made the vehicle of unaffected feeling—of real pBMBWon- —a set of provincial vulgarisms were harmonised by Burns into a vigorous , expressive and enduring language ; and connected with this same electric current , a g lory shines from Sheffield around the feelings of a " factory doll" and the doings of a " printer ' s devil . But one line there is to which I think Miss Tree does not do

    justice . When Malvolio tenders Olivia s ring to Viola , she exclainia" She took the ring of me—111 none of it /' It is surely a mistake to pronounce " She took the ring of me !"

    as an exclamation of questioning surprise ? Viola was well aware that Olivia had received no ring from her , and might well be surprised at the message ; but Malvolio ' s precisely-delivered i&etftage , contained in the oblique invitation to return , was sufficient to rouse her suspicions , and was long enough to allow them to arise . The mind of Viola is not one to remain in

    amazement at a woman s ruse , without a shrewd guess at the difficulty . * With truest delicacy—and with the immediate instinct of a wontaiv » foevt—H&he reject * the ring ; but , to lull « u » piei « n in tb # m *** e &ger ^ - ~ to sare the reputation of Olivia from being < ' bcdtfcd by the unmuzzled tfcmirhts * ' of her servant , she re-

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1836, page 626, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2662/page/38/