Shadows of the StageMacmillan, 1892 - 387 էջ |
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... true that the veterans of our day have a certain measure of right upon their side of the question . In the earlier periods of our theatrical history the strength of the stage was con- centrated in a few theatres . The old Park , for ...
... true that the veterans of our day have a certain measure of right upon their side of the question . In the earlier periods of our theatrical history the strength of the stage was con- centrated in a few theatres . The old Park , for ...
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... true actor it may be said , as Ben Jonson says of the true poet , that he is made as well as born . The finest natural faculties have never yet been known to avail without training and culture . But this is a problem which , in a great ...
... true actor it may be said , as Ben Jonson says of the true poet , that he is made as well as born . The finest natural faculties have never yet been known to avail without training and culture . But this is a problem which , in a great ...
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... true way , after all , should lie in the life of the senses , and not in knowledge and reason ; if , under the ministrations of this fiend , one hour of life , even one moment of it , shall ever ( which is an idle and futile sup ...
... true way , after all , should lie in the life of the senses , and not in knowledge and reason ; if , under the ministrations of this fiend , one hour of life , even one moment of it , shall ever ( which is an idle and futile sup ...
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... true of the man that no pleasure satisfies him and no happiness contents , and " death is de- sired , and life a thing unblest . " -- The man who puts out his eyes must be- come blind . The sin of Faust is a spiritual sin , and the ...
... true of the man that no pleasure satisfies him and no happiness contents , and " death is de- sired , and life a thing unblest . " -- The man who puts out his eyes must be- come blind . The sin of Faust is a spiritual sin , and the ...
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... mind of his public a true sense of its sublime and far - reaching signifi- cation . The full metaphysical drift of thought and meaning in Goethe's poem , however , can be but faintly indicated in a play . It ELLEN TERRY IN FAUST . 35.
... mind of his public a true sense of its sublime and far - reaching signifi- cation . The full metaphysical drift of thought and meaning in Goethe's poem , however , can be but faintly indicated in a play . It ELLEN TERRY IN FAUST . 35.
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Էջ 11 - I would go fifty miles on foot, for I have not a horse worth riding on, to kiss the hand of that man whose generous heart will give up the reins of his imagination into his author's hands — be pleased he knows not why, and cares not wherefore.
Էջ 259 - ... 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 275 - CLXXVII •Oh, that the Desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair Spirit for my minister, That I might all forget the human race, And, hating no one, love but only her ! Ye Elements, in whose ennobling stir I feel myself exalted, can ye not Accord me such a being ? Do I err In deeming such inhabit many a spot, Though with them to converse can rarely be our lot...
Էջ 100 - 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 46 - Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on And turns no more his head; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
Էջ 378 - And babes, sweet-smiling babes, our bed. How should I love the pretty creatures, While round my knees they fondly clung ; To see them look their mother's features, To hear them lisp their mother's tongue. And when with envy, time transported, Shall think to rob us of our joys, You'll in your girls again be courted, And I'll go wooing in my boys.
Էջ 210 - ... could have felt more with me and for me. Why, then, should I hesitate (unless through a fear that I might seem egotistical) to tell you all my triumphs, all my success? Suffice it, all my successes put together since I have been upon the stage would not come near my success in London; and I only wanted some one of you here to enjoy it with me, to make it complete.
Էջ 355 - I slept soundly till three o'clock, awaked, and then writ these lines : " ' Come, pleasing Rest, eternal Slumber, fall ; Seal mine, that once must seal the eyes of all. Calm and composed my soul her journey takes, No guilt that troubles, and no heart that aches. Adieu ! thou Sun, all bright like her arise ; Adieu ! fair Friends, and all that's good and wise.