The Wallet of Time: Containing Personal, Biographical, and Critical Reminiscence of the American Theatre, Հատոր 2Moffat, Yard, 1913 |
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... theatrical synopsis of a Russian novel , by Fedor Dostoievski , called " Crime and Punishment . " The sub- ject was originally brought upon our Stage by Richard Mansfield 70 THE WALLET OF TIME "The Fool Hath Said, "There Is No God' "
... theatrical synopsis of a Russian novel , by Fedor Dostoievski , called " Crime and Punishment . " The sub- ject was originally brought upon our Stage by Richard Mansfield 70 THE WALLET OF TIME "The Fool Hath Said, "There Is No God' "
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... novels as " A Wife's Evidence " and " Uncle Silas . " In the time of the old Union Square Theatre the public was favored with many works of that order . They are well enough , in their way , but their way 72 THE WALLET OF TIME.
... novels as " A Wife's Evidence " and " Uncle Silas . " In the time of the old Union Square Theatre the public was favored with many works of that order . They are well enough , in their way , but their way 72 THE WALLET OF TIME.
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... novel by George W. Cable , 1902 , and Lady Barchester , in " Fools of Nature , " by H. V. Esmond , 1904. On September 19 , 1904 , Mr. Sothern and Miss Marlowe began their professional alliance , at the Grand Opera House , Chicago , in ...
... novel by George W. Cable , 1902 , and Lady Barchester , in " Fools of Nature , " by H. V. Esmond , 1904. On September 19 , 1904 , Mr. Sothern and Miss Marlowe began their professional alliance , at the Grand Opera House , Chicago , in ...
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... the Criterion Theatre , on January 14 , 1901. That play is a synopsis of a crude and cumbersome novel , -a book not easily read , because of its disjointed mechanism and its forced 84 THE WALLET OF TIME "When Knighthood Was in Flower"
... the Criterion Theatre , on January 14 , 1901. That play is a synopsis of a crude and cumbersome novel , -a book not easily read , because of its disjointed mechanism and its forced 84 THE WALLET OF TIME "When Knighthood Was in Flower"
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... novel , as in all such cases , is preferable to the play , and for an obvious reason : a reader sees with the eyes of the mind , a spectator with those of the body . In the one case , if the emotions are once excited , fancy repairs ...
... novel , as in all such cases , is preferable to the play , and for an obvious reason : a reader sees with the eyes of the mind , a spectator with those of the body . In the one case , if the emotions are once excited , fancy repairs ...
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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.