A History of the New York Stage from the First Performance in 1732 to 1901, Հատոր 3

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Dodd, Mead, 1903
 

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Էջ 99 - You would like to compliment me upon an honorable life. As I look back upon that life it seems to me that it would have been absolutely impossible for me to have led any other. In this I have, perhaps, been mercifully helped more than are many of my more beautiful sisters in art.
Էջ 100 - I had already, though so young, been brought face to face with necessity. I found life sadly real and intensely earnest ; and in my ignorance of other ways of study, I resolved to take therefrom my text and my watchword ; to be thoroughly in earnest, intensely in earnest, in all my thoughts and in all my actions, whether in my profession or out of it, became my one single idea. And I honestly believe herein lies the secret of my success in life. I do not believe that any great success in any art...
Էջ 100 - I do not believe that any great success in any art can be achieved without it. " I say this to the beginners in my profession, and I am sure all the associates in my art, who have honored me with their presence on this occasion, will indorse what I say in this. Art is an absolute mistress ; she will not be coquetted with or slighted ; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.
Էջ 100 - ... my main help ! I do not now say farewell to you in the usual sense of the word. In making my final representations upon the mimic scene, in the various cities of the country, I have reserved to myself the right of meeting you again — where you have made me believe that I give you the pleasure, which I receive myself at the same time — at the reading desk.
Էջ 163 - In 1892 was elected to the Legislature of the State of California; in January, 1894, was admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court of California; was elected to the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-ninth, Sixtieth, Sixty-first, Sixty-second, Sixty-third, Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, Sixty-sixth, and Sixty-seventh Congresses.
Էջ 99 - I thank you, gentlemen, for the great honour you have offered me. I thank you, not only for myself, but for my whole profession, to which, through and by me, you have paid this very graceful compliment. If the few words I am about to say...
Էջ 360 - A New Way to Pay Old Debts," and the principal character in "The Iron Chest.
Էջ 99 - Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks, but I thank you. Gentlemen, the heart has no speech; its only language is a tear or a pressure of the hand, and words very feebly convey or interpret its emotions. Yet I would beg you to believe that in the three little words I now speak, ' I thank you,' there are heart depths which I should fail to express better, though I should use a thousand other words.
Էջ 266 - OFFICER LOUIS F. MINTZ PAGE CLARA LIMA LADY HAMILTON FLORA MORGAN LOUISE, DUCHESS OF PORTSMOUTH ADELAIDE FITZ ALLAN MOLL NELLIE HANCOCK NELL GWYN HENRIETTA CROSMAN No editorial changes for publication purposes have been made in the play. For assistance in clearing special points, I am exceedingly grateful to Mrs. George C. Hazelton. It was Mrs. Hazelton, too, who supplied the manuscript of Mistress Nell that is being used in this series.
Էջ 373 - It occupied a lot, fifty feet in width, on the west side of Fourth Avenue, between Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth streets, adjoining the Academy of Design.

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