soliloquy

• Probably in a great many cases, the original impulse which led Browning to plan a soliloquy was a kind of anger mixed with curiosity; possibly the first charcoal sketch of Blougram was a caricature of a priest. —  Robert Browning
• This supports my argument as to the great soliloquy--that it was death as the result of his slaying the king, or attempting to do so, not death by suicide, he was thinking of: he expected to die himself in the punishing of his uncle Footnote 14: He had had no chance but that when the king was on his knees Footnote 15: 'a fancy and illusion Footnote 16: 'which is too small for those engaged to find room to fight on it Footnote 17: 'continent,' containing space Footnote 18: This soliloquy is antithetic to the other. —  The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark A Study with the Text of the Folio of 1623
• In some of the most interesting situations it is in fact even more natural than the oral drama, logically it is more perfect; for the soliloquy is actually thought before us, and the magic of the representation not destroyed by the sound of the human voice at a moment when we all know man never speaks The curtain again rises. —  Vivian Grey
• Oh The end of her soliloquy was a shriek. —  Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp Or, Lost in the Backwoods
• The end of her soliloquy was a shriek. —  Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp Or, Lost in the Backwoods

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