The Wallet of Time: Containing Personal, Biographical, and Critical Reminiscence of the American Theatre, Հատոր 2Moffat, Yard, 1913 |
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... of genius and beauty , on the record of a representative American actress , as noble as she was brilliant and as lovely in her private life as she was beautiful , fortunate , and renowned in her public pur- 2 THE WALLET OF TIME.
... of genius and beauty , on the record of a representative American actress , as noble as she was brilliant and as lovely in her private life as she was beautiful , fortunate , and renowned in her public pur- 2 THE WALLET OF TIME.
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... Noble Butler , of Louisville , gave her instruction in English literature and elocution , and in 1874 , at Cincinnati , Charlotte Cushman said a few . She encouraging words to her , and told her to persevere MARY ANDERSON 3.
... Noble Butler , of Louisville , gave her instruction in English literature and elocution , and in 1874 , at Cincinnati , Charlotte Cushman said a few . She encouraging words to her , and told her to persevere MARY ANDERSON 3.
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... noble in loveliness of spirit , touched with the glamour of woful passion , and fraught with tremendous energy of purpose . In the scenes with Romeo she made Juliet tender and simple . The love that she denoted was not the animal love ...
... noble in loveliness of spirit , touched with the glamour of woful passion , and fraught with tremendous energy of purpose . In the scenes with Romeo she made Juliet tender and simple . The love that she denoted was not the animal love ...
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... noble principle and heroic fidelity not 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 ...
... noble principle and heroic fidelity not 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 ...
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... noble and winning embodiments of Rosalind , which are not to be forgotten or discredited . Louisa Nisbett was accounted delicious in it . Helena Faucit is said to have acted it with nobility , sweetness , and spiritual exaltation ...
... noble and winning embodiments of Rosalind , which are not to be forgotten or discredited . Louisa Nisbett was accounted delicious in it . Helena Faucit is said to have acted it with nobility , sweetness , and spiritual exaltation ...
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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.