The Wallet of Time: Containing Personal, Biographical, and Critical Reminiscence of the American Theatre, Հատոր 2Moffat, Yard, 1913 |
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... taking the dread alternative of a simulated death was so actual that it seemed to strike a blow upon the heart . In the final crisis , the awakening in the tomb , the perception of defeat and ruin , and the fatal act 16 THE WALLET OF TIME.
... taking the dread alternative of a simulated death was so actual that it seemed to strike a blow upon the heart . In the final crisis , the awakening in the tomb , the perception of defeat and ruin , and the fatal act 16 THE WALLET OF TIME.
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... It is essentially a play to be enjoyed , and the right acting of it requires that the players , having tested and justified their plan , with not too rigid respect for the actual , should MARY ANDERSON 19 "As You Like It"
... It is essentially a play to be enjoyed , and the right acting of it requires that the players , having tested and justified their plan , with not too rigid respect for the actual , should MARY ANDERSON 19 "As You Like It"
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... actual , should give free way to their poetic feeling , and as far as possible invest the piece with its pastoral glamour . Things do not occur in actual life as they occur in that comedy . Rosalind's airy exploit must not be tried by ...
... actual , should give free way to their poetic feeling , and as far as possible invest the piece with its pastoral glamour . Things do not occur in actual life as they occur in that comedy . Rosalind's airy exploit must not be tried by ...
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... actual incarna- tion of the divine spirit . They were like windows to a sacred temple , and through them you could look into the soul of a true woman , -always a realm where thoughts are gliding angels , and feelings are the faces of ...
... actual incarna- tion of the divine spirit . They were like windows to a sacred temple , and through them you could look into the soul of a true woman , -always a realm where thoughts are gliding angels , and feelings are the faces of ...
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... actual in human life are confronted , not conjoined . Still more , since experience is inexorably operative and must always bring its consequence , any practical surrender to the ideal is a choice of suffering and perhaps of death . A ...
... actual in human life are confronted , not conjoined . Still more , since experience is inexorably operative and must always bring its consequence , any practical surrender to the ideal is a choice of suffering and perhaps of death . A ...
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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.