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... seen to traverse the Orchestra , and to ascend the stage by a stair of communication , so that the audience were made spectators , as it were , of his journey . The Prosce- nium was screened by a curtain , which was with- drawn when the ...
... seen to traverse the Orchestra , and to ascend the stage by a stair of communication , so that the audience were made spectators , as it were , of his journey . The Prosce- nium was screened by a curtain , which was with- drawn when the ...
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... seen , endeavored by every means in their power , including the use of masks and of buskins , to disguise the person of the actor ; and , at the expense of sacrificing the expression of his countenance , and the grace - or , at least ...
... seen , endeavored by every means in their power , including the use of masks and of buskins , to disguise the person of the actor ; and , at the expense of sacrificing the expression of his countenance , and the grace - or , at least ...
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... seen , owing to the license of the old comedy , made no appendage to that which was substituted in its place . The exhibition of the Grecian comedy did not , in other respects , in so far as we know , materially differ from that of the ...
... seen , owing to the license of the old comedy , made no appendage to that which was substituted in its place . The exhibition of the Grecian comedy did not , in other respects , in so far as we know , materially differ from that of the ...
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... seen that Athens , enthusiastic in her attachment to the fine arts , held no circumstances degrading which were connected with them . Eschylus and Sophocles were soldiers and statesmen , yet lost nothing in the opinion of their ...
... seen that Athens , enthusiastic in her attachment to the fine arts , held no circumstances degrading which were connected with them . Eschylus and Sophocles were soldiers and statesmen , yet lost nothing in the opinion of their ...
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... seen even in the present day . In the retired valleys of Catholic Switzerland , in the Tyrol , and in some little - visited districts of Ger- many , the peasants still annually perform dramatic spectacles representing episodes in the ...
... seen even in the present day . In the retired valleys of Catholic Switzerland , in the Tyrol , and in some little - visited districts of Ger- many , the peasants still annually perform dramatic spectacles representing episodes in the ...
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Page 591 - For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales ; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'da ghastly dew From the nations...
Page 598 - THE shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device, Excelsior! His brow was sad; his eye beneath, Flashed like a falchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior...
Page 587 - The gay will laugh When thou art gone; the solemn brood of care . Plod on, and each one as before will chase His favorite phantom; yet all these shall leave Their mirth and their employments, and shall come, And make their bed with thee.
Page 593 - She looked down to blush, and she looked up to sigh, With a smile on her lips and a tear in her eye. He took her soft hand ere her mother could bar, — "Now tread we a measure !
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Page 563 - I REMEMBER. I REMEMBER, I remember, The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn : He never came a wink too soon, Nor brought too long a day ; But now, I often wish the night Had borne my breath away. I REMEMBER, I REMEMBER.
Page 559 - Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprang and stood In brighter light and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood ? Alas! they all are in their graves; the gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds, with the fair and good of ours. The rain is falling where they lie, but the cold November rain Calls not from out the gloomy earth the lovely ones again.
Page 566 - The splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story: The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle ; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Page 591 - Slowly comes a hungry people, as a lion, creeping nigher, Glares at one that nods and winks behind a slowly-dying fire. Yet I doubt not thro' the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widen'd with the process of the suns.
Page 589 - As the husband is, the wife is : thou art mated with a clown, And the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down. He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.