The Wallet of Time: Containing Personal, Biographical, and Critical Reminiscence of the American Theatre, Հատոր 2Moffat, Yard, 1913 |
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... , who looks with indifference upon adulation , whose head is not turned by renown , whose composure is not dis- turbed by flattery , whose simplicity is not marred by wealth , who does not go into theatrical hysterics and MARY ANDERSON 9.
... , who looks with indifference upon adulation , whose head is not turned by renown , whose composure is not dis- turbed by flattery , whose simplicity is not marred by wealth , who does not go into theatrical hysterics and MARY ANDERSON 9.
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... theatrical hysterics and offer that condition of artificial delirium as the mood of genius in acting , who above all makes it apparent , in her personality and her achievements , that the soul can be sufficient to itself and can exist ...
... theatrical hysterics and offer that condition of artificial delirium as the mood of genius in acting , who above all makes it apparent , in her personality and her achievements , that the soul can be sufficient to itself and can exist ...
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... theatrical accessories to be forgotten and leaving the solemn conviction that there are times when only death can be deemed triumph and it is better to die than to live . For the continuity of the achievement studious art and continual ...
... theatrical accessories to be forgotten and leaving the solemn conviction that there are times when only death can be deemed triumph and it is better to die than to live . For the continuity of the achievement studious art and continual ...
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... theatrical mechanism . There have , likewise , been 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 ...
... theatrical mechanism . There have , likewise , been 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 ...
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... theatrical bills of her time . Her Galatea furnished a shining example of what can be accomplished when a character in itself slender receives the investiture of a noble , poetical personality . Galatea as embodied by Miss Anderson was ...
... theatrical bills of her time . Her Galatea furnished a shining example of what can be accomplished when a character in itself slender receives the investiture of a noble , poetical personality . Galatea as embodied by Miss Anderson 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.