The Wallet of Time: Containing Personal, Biographical, and Critical Reminiscence of the American Theatre, Հատոր 2Moffat, Yard, 1913 |
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... action with the chain . The fine burst of filial resentment , suddenly curbed by the solicitude of friendship , when Rosalind defends her banished father , had its legitimate effect of power . In the boy's dress it was shown that a ...
... action with the chain . The fine burst of filial resentment , suddenly curbed by the solicitude of friendship , when Rosalind defends her banished father , had its legitimate effect of power . In the boy's dress it was shown that a ...
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... action . Satiety and monotony had not made a desert round her path . For her the birds of morn- ing were singing in the summer woods , while her foot- steps fell not on the faded leaves of loss and sorrow , but on the blown roses of ...
... action . Satiety and monotony had not made a desert round her path . For her the birds of morn- ing were singing in the summer woods , while her foot- steps fell not on the faded leaves of loss and sorrow , but on the blown roses of ...
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... action of the drama has been substantially fulfilled before she disappears . There is no intermediate passion to be wrought to a climax , nor is there any intermediate mood , dramatically speak- ing , to be sustained . The dramatic ...
... action of the drama has been substantially fulfilled before she disappears . There is no intermediate passion to be wrought to a climax , nor is there any intermediate mood , dramatically speak- ing , to be sustained . The dramatic ...
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... action of veiling her face and falling like one dead , at the announcement of the Prince's death , were perfect denotements of the col- lapse of a grief - stricken woman . The skill with which the actress , in the Statue Scene , -which ...
... action of veiling her face and falling like one dead , at the announcement of the Prince's death , were perfect denotements of the col- lapse of a grief - stricken woman . The skill with which the actress , in the Statue Scene , -which ...
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... action were admirable . There comes a time in the experience of Julia when almost the greatest sorrow that a woman can feel has suddenly aroused her to a sense of the solemn reality of life and thrown her for support upon the resources ...
... action were admirable . There comes a time in the experience of Julia when almost the greatest sorrow that a woman can feel has suddenly aroused her to a sense of the solemn reality of life and thrown her for support upon the resources ...
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The Wallet of Time: Containing Personal, Biographical, and Critical ..., Հատոր 2 William Winter Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1913 |
The Wallet of Time: Containing Personal, Biographical, and Critical ..., Հատոր 2 William Winter Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1913 |
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Էջ 286 - Oh yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill, To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood ; That nothing walks with aimless feet ; That not one life shall be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete...
Էջ 11 - The stars of midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face.
Էջ 588 - We are told that the heart of man is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
Էջ 264 - And slight withal may be the things which bring Back on the heart the weight which it would fling Aside for ever : it may be a sound — A tone of music, — summer's eve — or spring, A flower — the wind — the Ocean — which shall wound, Striking the electric chain wherewith we are darkly bound ; XXIV.
Էջ 381 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Էջ 125 - ... upon him her whole artillery of airs, eyes, and motion; down goes her dainty, diving body to the ground, as if she were sinking under the conscious load of her own attractions; then launches into a flood of fine language and compliment, still playing her chest forward in fifty falls and risings, like a swan upon waving water...
Էջ 187 - The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept. Were toiling upward in the night.
Էջ 9 - A creature not too bright and good For human nature's daily food; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Էջ 205 - Upon my soul, sir, I do not. I think it is as honest a looking face as any in the room, dead or alive. But I suppose Uncle Oliver goes with the rest of the lumber?
Էջ 313 - Ay, truly ; for the power of beauty will sooner transform honesty from what it is to a bawd than the force of honesty can translate beauty into his likeness : this was sometime a paradox, but now the time gives it proof.