The Wallet of Time: Containing Personal, Biographical, and Critical Reminiscence of the American Theatre, Հատոր 2Moffat, Yard, 1913 |
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... called " cold . " The standard is ordinary and it is understood . But when a woman appears on the stage whose life is not ruled by the love of admiration , whose nature is devoid of vanity , who looks with indifference upon adulation ...
... called " cold . " The standard is ordinary and it is understood . But when a woman appears on the stage whose life is not ruled by the love of admiration , whose nature is devoid of vanity , who looks with indifference upon adulation ...
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... called " cold . " That is what hap- pened in the case of Mary Anderson . What are the faculties and attributes essential to great success in acting ? A sumptuous and supple figure , that can realize the ideals of statuary ; a mobile ...
... called " cold . " That is what hap- pened in the case of Mary Anderson . What are the faculties and attributes essential to great success in acting ? A sumptuous and supple figure , that can realize the ideals of statuary ; a mobile ...
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... called " heavy . " She ought to be represented as about thirty years of age at the beginning of the piece and forty- six at the end of it . Leontes is not more than thirty- four at the opening , and he would be fifty at the close . He ...
... called " heavy . " She ought to be represented as about thirty years of age at the beginning of the piece and forty- six at the end of it . Leontes is not more than thirty- four at the opening , and he would be fifty at the close . He ...
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... called " Comedy and Tragedy . " Those two plays she often acted on the same night and , doing so , pointed a strik- ing contrast , gave a puissant , convincing evidence of her dramatic power , and provided one of the best theatrical ...
... called " Comedy and Tragedy . " Those two plays she often acted on the same night and , doing so , pointed a strik- ing contrast , gave a puissant , convincing evidence of her dramatic power , and provided one of the best theatrical ...
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... called " Richard Lovelace . " That play is the image of a romantic , sanguinary , grievous love affair , which , fancifully speaking , befell in the old city of Worcester , England , in 1651 , and in which the English poet Lovelace was ...
... called " Richard Lovelace . " That play is the image of a romantic , sanguinary , grievous love affair , which , fancifully speaking , befell in the old city of Worcester , England , in 1651 , and in which the English poet Lovelace was ...
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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.