When I spoke just now of Wagner's predilection for long soliloquies and prosy explanations as a mannerism, I do not think that I was expressing myself too strongly.
And conversely, the profound and easeful soliloquies and serious imagery of the Civill War are nearer akin to those of the Selimus than to anything of Greene's.
The blank verse is sweet and regular rather than swift or powerful in dramatic movement; rhyme is less frequently used than heretofore; the prose of Launce's soliloquies has a homely directness and vigour.
It was in his own little den of an office and on the top of his official stool that Newman thus soliloquised; and the soliloquy referred, as Newman's grumbling soliloquiesusually did, to Ralph Nickleby.
And Ralph always wound up these mental soliloquies by arriving at the conclusion, that there was nothing like money.
The soliloquies of these personages perform for the epic poet the part performed by the elaborate introspection and discussion of motives in modern prose fiction.
It is through the soliloquies in the 'Paradise Lost' that we can best realise the whole conception of Satan, in his ruined magnificence, and in his lost but not forgotten capacity of happiness and nobleness.
The soliloquies of Dido are to be regarded rather as passionate outbursts of prayer to some unknown avenging power than as communings with her own heart.
Besides the historical soliloquies mentioned in the letter to Bentley, there are poems in which he is beginning to feel after his religious philosophy.
Your suggestion as to a series of soliloquies is very flattering and has taken hold of me to the extent of writing a similar ballad on Simon de Montfort.
Are the soliloquies of Hamlet likely to lure them to the severe intellectual task of reading the play scrupulously?
Such licence has gone: asides are dead, statements of fact in soliloquies are only permitted in formal tragedies.
Such an ambition was Macbeth's; but in Richard the symptoms are wanting, and in all his long soliloquies he is never found dwelling upon the prize in view.
Edmund, whose soliloquies display him as conscious that his birth has made his whole life an injury.
They are soliloquies of the nineteenth century, and representations of its men and conditions.
Indeed, all the plays of Terence abound in soliloquies very inartificially introduced; and there is none of them in which he has so much erred in this way as in the Hecyra.
The Gaoler's daughter's soliloquies are inartistic, and at times ludicrous.
The author does not depend very much on soliloquies or disguises; he does not, as a rule, complicate matters by underplots and cross-interests.
That they should say this in so many words, is not perhaps in human nature: but the poet has the right in soliloquies to lend a voice to the most hidden thoughts, otherwise the form of the monologue would, generally speaking, be censurable.
Witness his inimitable soliloquies on honour, on the influence of wine on bravery, his descriptions of the beggarly vagabonds whom he enlisted, of Justice Shallow, &c.
Two of Richard's most significant soliloquies which enable us to draw the most important conclusions with regard to his mental temperament, are to be found in The Last Part of Henry the Sixth.
The author of those soliloquies could, and did, in the parallel passages of Hamlet, rise near the height of the master he honoured and loved.
At their next meeting he would show cause for attributing to Ben Jonson not only the soliloquies usually but inconsiderately quoted as Shakespeare's, but the entire original conception of the character of the Prince of Denmark.
In Macbeth's several soliloquies throughout the play what mental characteristic is most prominent?
From his soliloquies in Act I, scenes 3 and 4, what do you judge of his moral sense?
He belonged to the Kemble school, but he never delivered soliloquies in that ludicrous, self-approving style which I find laughingly noticed by the critics, as a great blot in John Kemble's acting.
He is savage at having to plod through mud and dust, but he has a world of his own beyond it all; and he not only learns soliloquies from plays, but recites them in gentlemen's houses.
For the curiosity of the thing I copy one of the programmes of the soliloquies for you:-- 1.
Shakespeare's soliloquies deserve careful study as the best introduction to the deep nature of the monologue.
Shakespeare's soliloquiesmay be thought to be unnatural.
But the peculiarity of these loose and almost slangy soliloquies is that every now and then in them occur bursts of pure poetry which are like the sudden song of birds.
In fact, the monologue has taken such hold upon Browning that even Pippa's soliloquies in "Pippa Passes" are practically monologues.
While Shakespeare's soliloquies may not seem as natural as conversation, in one sense they are more natural expressions of thinking and feeling.
We grew chummy and I spent many an hour in her company In my soliloquies I often speculated and theorized on the question of proposing to her.
Though the presentation of character is not humanly vital, the long speeches and soliloquies display an elaborate analysis of moods of passion, with an absence of Athenian religion, a pagan cosmopolitanism, and an almost modern introspection.
Soliloquies are often used to explain action or character.
The change in the revenge motive is especially manifest in the soliloquies and reflective passages, which unite in a fairly well connected argument that points the moral of the action, the omnipotence of God's providence.
Moreover, the play abounds in psychological introspection and meditative philosophy set forth for the most part through the soliloquies of the hero.
Thus furnished, I forgot my troubles for a while in the elaboration of soliloquies and dialogues.
Garrick then began reciting long sentimental soliloquies from certain plays, which Goldsmith was supposed to illustrate by his gestures.
The soliloquies of Franz are too long-winded, and the same may be said of some of the robber-scenes.
Thus the long soliloquies of Franz and the ribald garrulities of Spiegelberg were reduced to more tolerable proportions.
Gloucester's two great soliloquiesin the third part of Henry VI.
How I remember sitting in 'my house under the sideboard,' in the dining-room, concocting one of the soliloquies beginning Que suis je?
Stage soliloquies are of two kinds, which we may call for convenience the constructive and the reflective.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "soliloquies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
