The Tragedian: An Essay on the Histrionic Genius of Junius Brutus BoothHurd and Houghton, 1868 - 189 pages |
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... beauty of his personations . His great popularity , which time , accident , and eccentric habits seldom availed to di- minish , seemed owing mainly to those fire blasts of a volcanic energy , that power of instant and tremendous ...
... beauty of his personations . His great popularity , which time , accident , and eccentric habits seldom availed to di- minish , seemed owing mainly to those fire blasts of a volcanic energy , that power of instant and tremendous ...
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... beauty of woman , as in that Neapolitan Psyche , pure , proud , visionary ; or rise to the colossal grandeur of the Phidian Jupiter , ( " how big imagination glows in that lip ! " ) why may not the actor , whose clay is a living ...
... beauty of woman , as in that Neapolitan Psyche , pure , proud , visionary ; or rise to the colossal grandeur of the Phidian Jupiter , ( " how big imagination glows in that lip ! " ) why may not the actor , whose clay is a living ...
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... beauty of the world depends on the law of gravitation , we dare maintain , that the finest art is that in which the solidest material is permeated by the most spiritual thought . This is the true " Bridal of the earth and sky . ” Not ...
... beauty of the world depends on the law of gravitation , we dare maintain , that the finest art is that in which the solidest material is permeated by the most spiritual thought . This is the true " Bridal of the earth and sky . ” Not ...
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... beauty ; dark hair ; blue eyes ; a neck and chest of ample but symmetrical mould ; a step and movement elastic , assured , kingly . His face was pale , with that healthy pallor which is one sign of a magnetic brain . Throughout this ...
... beauty ; dark hair ; blue eyes ; a neck and chest of ample but symmetrical mould ; a step and movement elastic , assured , kingly . His face was pale , with that healthy pallor which is one sign of a magnetic brain . Throughout this ...
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... beauty . Booth took up Kean at his best , and carried him further . Booth was Kean , plus the higher imagination . Kean was the intense individual ; Booth , the type in the intense individual . To see Booth in his best mood was not ...
... beauty . Booth took up Kean at his best , and carried him further . Booth was Kean , plus the higher imagination . Kean was the intense individual ; Booth , the type in the intense individual . To see Booth in his best mood was not ...
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acter action actor appeared audience Banquo bare bodkin beauty blood Booth gave Brabantio brain Brutus Cassio char character charm City Madam Cordelia delight Desdemona dramatic Edmund Kean emotion emphasis expression face father fear feeling filled Garrick genius gesture ghost Goneril grandeur grief Guest Hamlet hand heard heart heaven histrionic Iago Iago's imagination intense intonation Kean's king kingly Lady Lady Macbeth Lamb's Lear light lines listener living look Lord Lovel Macbeth madness manner meaning melancholy mood murder nature ness never noble OCTAVIAN Othello pass passage passion pathos pause pay Old Debts performance Pescara phrase play players Polonius preter Regan resonant Richard Roderigo scene scorn seemed Shake Shakespeare Shylock silent Sir Giles soliloquy soul sound speak speech spirit stage stroke subtle supernatural sword tender theatre thee Third Act thou thought tion tones touch TRAGEDIAN tragedy truth uttered voice wonder words
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Page 120 - You owe this strange intelligence? or why Upon this blasted heath you stop our way With such prophetic greeting? Speak, I charge you. [Witches vanish. Ban. The earth hath bubbles, as the water has, And these are of them.
Page 71 - Horatio, what a wounded name, Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me. If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart, Absent thee from felicity awhile, And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain, To tell my story.
Page 63 - What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel, Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous; and we fools of nature So horridly to shake our disposition With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?
Page 54 - My father's spirit in arms ! all is not well ; I doubt some foul play: 'would, the night were come! Till then sit still, my soul : Foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.
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Page 12 - ... the corruptions and abuses of mankind. What have looks, or tones, to do with that sublime identification of his age with that of the heavens themselves, when, in his reproaches to them for conniving at the injustice of his children, he reminds them that " they themselves are old "? What gesture shall we appropriate to this?
Page 59 - tis not to come ; if it be not to come, it will be now ; if it be not now, yet it will come ; the readiness is all ; since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is't to leave betimes?