(Moreover you may have perceived in some of these words the kinship which exists in all for the loquy groupsee (1) Soliloquy below.)

We might quote Hamlet's soliloquy on suicide as an example of Shakespeare's ability to go to the heart of deep questions.

Refreshed by much beer, and enlivened by the cheery influence of the genial sandwich, they return for a few more hours of soliloquy and dialogue.

One can not but feel, in looking on these majestic trees, with the battlements, turrets, and towers of the old castle everywhere surrounding him, and the magnificent parks and lawns opening through dreamy vistas of trees into what seems immeasurable distance, the force of the soliloquy which Shakespeare puts into the mouth of the dying old king-maker, as he lies ebreathing out his soul in the dust and blood of the battlefield....

" At that moment, a fairy, who was near, having heard the soliloquy of the discontented squirrel, immediately complied with its wish, and changed it into a beautiful bird.

We must now consider for a moment the questionif question it can be calledof the soliloquy and the aside.

Its fundamental conditions necessitated very nearly a maximum of convention; therefore such conventions as blank verse and the soliloquy were simply of a piece with all the rest.

The characters, that is to say, were constantly stepping out of the frame of the picture; and while this visual convention maintained itself, there was nothing inconsistent or jarring in the auditory convention of the soliloquy.

In modern serious drama, therefore, the soliloquy can only be regarded as a disturbing anachronism.

One thing is so patent as to call for no demonstration: to wit, that the aside is ten times worse than the soliloquy.

An overheard soliloquy, on the other hand, is intolerable because it is heard.

It keeps within the bounds of physical possibility, but it stultifies the only logical excuse for the soliloquy, namely, that it is an externalization of thought which would in reality remain unuttered.

Short of actual derangement, however, there are certain states of nervous surexcitation which cause even healthy people to talk to themselves; and if an author has the skill to make us realize that his character is passing through such a crisis, he may risk a soliloquy, not only without reproach, but with conspicuous psychological justification.

In the third act of Clyde Fitch's play, The Girl with the Green Eyes, there is a daring attempt at such a soliloquy, where Jinny says: "Good Heavens!

This is a convention to be employed as sparingly as possible; but it is not exactly on a level with the ordinary soliloquy.

A soliloquy, on the other hand, has no real existence.

The difference between a conversation in undertones and a soliloquy or aside is abundantly plain: the one occurs every hour of the day, the other never occurs at all.

[Footnote 5: A conversation on the telephone often provides a convenient and up-to-date substitute for a soliloquy; but that is an expedient which ought not to be abused.]

[Footnote 6: The soliloquy is often not only slovenly, but a gratuitous and unnecessary slovenliness.

It is entitled, "Soliloquy of a Young Poet.

Imaginative persons often picture to themselves, even in solitary musings, the presence of a distant friend, to whom they impart their most private opinions; and in the same manner a letter is a kind of soliloquy.

THE TRUANT'S SOLILOQUY

Darkness, The King of, a Soliloquy, 270.

'Good!' said Nick, half in soliloquy, as he viewed the feathery element, and a new idea seemed to strike him, 'I have hit it at last.

We are the contemporaries of a street-building generation, but the grand maxim of the nineteenth century, in their management of masonry, as in almost every thing else, as far as we can discover, appears to lie in that troublesome line of Macbeth's soliloquy, ending with, "'twere well it were done quickly."

The last begins in a monologue upon his own failures in life, and is pervaded by an atmosphere of sadness, sometimes of pessimism, quite different from the spirit of the other two lectures.

Read "Fra Lippo Lippi" or "Andrea del Sarto," and tell what is meant by a dramatic monologue.

Is Hamlet's monologue the meditation of a criminal?

Browning, in his monologue, makes this remark of Michelangelo's, and the comparison between Andrea and Raphael that follows, the kernel of the poem.

Then, while Houseman peered about him with his lantern, not six feet from Aram, and actually between him and the audience, Aram indulged in a long and loud monologue as to whether he should shoot Houseman or not, ending with a prayer to heaven to save him from more blood-guiltiness!

" With a monomaniac, conversation is apt to limit itself to monologue; so, while Henry was greatly interested in this odd talk, it left him but little to say.

Sir Eustace greets them as they approach, plunges at once into monologue, and relates (with occasional warnings from the doctor against over-excitement) the sad story of his misfortunes and consequent loss of reason.

It is the square of the living now, the centre of all the life, amusement and gossip of Marrakech, and the spectators are so thickly packed about the story-tellers, snake-charmers and dancers who frequent it that one can guess what is going on within each circle only by the wailing monologue or the persistent drum-beat that proceeds from it.

she exclaimed during a pause in what had become almost a monologue.

A famous tenor sang folk songs of sunny Italy; two French pantomimists did a graceful and amusing Pierrot and Pierrette; a comedian did a black-face monologue; and the first part of the program concluded with the performances of a young violinist, the son of a Russian tobacconist down town, whom Mrs. Berkeley Hammond had "discovered" and was now sending to Europe to complete his musical education.

And as he terminated this envenomed monologue the Cardinal thrust the fatal paper into his breast, and clasped his hands convulsively together; his dim eyes flashed fire, his thin lips quivered, his pale countenance became livid, and the storm of concentrated passion shook his frail form as with an ague-fit.

He entered upon a monologue that seemed interminable, his voice rising into a shrill excitement and then sinking into a hoarse whisper.

THE AUCTIONEER OFFERING A BARREL OF FUN, a monologue by George Heather.

NEWTON-WALTHAM BANK AND TRUST COMPANY SEE Newton-Waltham Bank and Trust Company, Newton Centre, Mass. NEWTON, HARRY L. Marriage and after; a monologue by Harry L. Newton and A. S. Hoffman.

Si and I, a country girl monologue.

The mother they forgot, a monologue.

Sois poli, Philipp; monologue, de Gabriello, pseud.

Monologue in a pet shop.

NEWTON-WALTHAM BANK AND TRUST COMPANY SEE Newton-Waltham Bank and Trust Company, Newton Centre, Mass. NEWTON, HARRY L. Marriage and after; a monologue by Harry L. Newton and A. S. Hoffman.

Si and I, a country girl monologue.

The mother they forgot, a monologue.

But the intense, rather painful, feeling which had swept over the audience was instantly removed by a comic monologue, and I need not tell you that these monologues,intended to amuse the men from the trenches and give them a hearty laugh,are usually very La Scalathat is to sayrosse.

It was almost a monologue.

Matthew Maltboy was so perfectly free from selfishness at this moment, that he would cheerfully have spared a few words from Miss Whedell's delightful monologue for the gratification of his late rival ("late" was now decidedly the word, in Maltboy's opinion) over the way.

Breaking off rather abruptly, he seemed vexed at the length of his monologue, and went on towards the post-office.