The Wallet of Time: Containing Personal, Biographical, and Critical Reminiscence of the American Theatre, Հատոր 2Moffat, Yard, 1913 |
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... less than the maiden purity that is at her heart . " I have no joy in this con- tract to - night . " In the teasing scene with the Nurse her stage business was devised to create and sustain the effect of childlike petulance , wilfulness ...
... less than the maiden purity that is at her heart . " I have no joy in this con- tract to - night . " In the teasing scene with the Nurse her stage business was devised to create and sustain the effect of childlike petulance , wilfulness ...
Էջ 17
... less than by passionate love . Only the subtlest intuition could have accom- plished that result , at once bringing the character into brilliant relief , and writing , as in lines of white fire upon a midnight sky , that hopeless word ...
... less than by passionate love . Only the subtlest intuition could have accom- plished that result , at once bringing the character into brilliant relief , and writing , as in lines of white fire upon a midnight sky , that hopeless word ...
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... less strong than brilliant : but Rosalind was born for victory , and when she wishes to conquer Love she will be so enchanting that all the perfumed airs around her beauteous head will stir and whisper with the rustle of his coming ...
... less strong than brilliant : but Rosalind was born for victory , and when she wishes to conquer Love she will be so enchanting that all the perfumed airs around her beauteous head will stir and whisper with the rustle of his coming ...
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... which time he may have been ten years old ; certainly not more , probably less . His words , toward the end of Act Third , " so sure as this beard's gray , " refer to the beard of Antigonus , not to his own . He is a 30 THE WALLET OF TIME.
... which time he may have been ten years old ; certainly not more , probably less . His words , toward the end of Act Third , " so sure as this beard's gray , " refer to the beard of Antigonus , not to his own . He is a 30 THE WALLET OF TIME.
Էջ 39
... less notable for intelligence than for fat - witted conceit and chuckle - brained dulness . It must be indeed an undeveloped or seriously impoverished mind that can view and consider a dramatic performance merely for the purpose of ...
... less notable for intelligence than for fat - witted conceit and chuckle - brained dulness . It must be indeed an undeveloped or seriously impoverished mind that can view and consider a dramatic performance merely for the purpose of ...
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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.