The Wallet of Time: Containing Personal, Biographical, and Critical Reminiscence of the American Theatre, Հատոր 2Moffat, Yard, 1913 |
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... Play Scene ; that he was merely melodramatic in the killing of Polonius - a crisis so terrible that it ought almost to rend the hearts of his hearers ; and that , from first to last , his demeanor and speech , his repose and action ...
... Play Scene ; that he was merely melodramatic in the killing of Polonius - a crisis so terrible that it ought almost to rend the hearts of his hearers ; and that , from first to last , his demeanor and speech , his repose and action ...
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... play . The poet Chatterton , a boy of intri- cate and astonishing character , has been theatrically converted into a sentimental simpleton , starving and dying in a garret , because his sweetheart did not make a timely arrival ...
... play . The poet Chatterton , a boy of intri- cate and astonishing character , has been theatrically converted into a sentimental simpleton , starving and dying in a garret , because his sweetheart did not make a timely arrival ...
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... play showed itself to be its most artificial component . In Lovelace's final encounter with his opponent , from whom he extorts the boon of a death wound , -- he vitalized the scene with a fine tumult of feeling , and he acted with such ...
... play showed itself to be its most artificial component . In Lovelace's final encounter with his opponent , from whom he extorts the boon of a death wound , -- he vitalized the scene with a fine tumult of feeling , and he acted with such ...
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... played Lady Teazle , in " The School for Scandal " ; Colombe , in Robert Browning's " Colombe's Birthday " ; Kate Hardcastle , in " She Stoops To Conquer " ; Prince Hal , in " King Henry IV . " ; Romola , in a play based on the novel of ...
... played Lady Teazle , in " The School for Scandal " ; Colombe , in Robert Browning's " Colombe's Birthday " ; Kate Hardcastle , in " She Stoops To Conquer " ; Prince Hal , in " King Henry IV . " ; Romola , in a play based on the novel of ...
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... play . Her management of a colloquy of sentiment , in the First Act , was delicious . She was by turns arch ... play entitled " When Knighthood Was In Flower , " at the Criterion Theatre , on January 14 , 1901. That play is a synopsis of ...
... play . Her management of a colloquy of sentiment , in the First Act , was delicious . She was by turns arch ... play entitled " When Knighthood Was In Flower , " at the Criterion Theatre , on January 14 , 1901. That play is a synopsis of ...
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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.