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... character of my début , and accordingly I was row in earnest work upon it . Frequently in the course of my solitary attempts the exclamation would escape me , " I cannot do it ; " and in some of my private rehearsals I had the ...
... character of my début , and accordingly I was row in earnest work upon it . Frequently in the course of my solitary attempts the exclamation would escape me , " I cannot do it ; " and in some of my private rehearsals I had the ...
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... character is placed in very effective situations , and , abounding in clap - traps , strengthened the impression of my first appearance . My next character was Norval , in Home's tragedy of ' Douglas . ' Conway was Glenalvon ; he was a ...
... character is placed in very effective situations , and , abounding in clap - traps , strengthened the impression of my first appearance . My next character was Norval , in Home's tragedy of ' Douglas . ' Conway was Glenalvon ; he was a ...
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... character of Luke in an alteration of Massinger's City Madam ' by Sir James Bland Burgess . The play was called ' Riches . ' This was given me to prepare , and I found the task extremely difficult . I cannot help regarding the character ...
... character of Luke in an alteration of Massinger's City Madam ' by Sir James Bland Burgess . The play was called ' Riches . ' This was given me to prepare , and I found the task extremely difficult . I cannot help regarding the character ...
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... character will sufficiently interpret itself to the majority of an audience to win for its representative , from their delight , the reward of applause really due to the poet's excellence . A total failure in Hamlet is of rare ...
... character will sufficiently interpret itself to the majority of an audience to win for its representative , from their delight , the reward of applause really due to the poet's excellence . A total failure in Hamlet is of rare ...
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... characters , my years and ardour suiting so well the part of Norval . The plays she fixed on were ' The Gamester ' and ' Douglas . ' Norval was a favourite character with me , but Beverley I had to study , and with the appalling ...
... characters , my years and ardour suiting so well the part of Norval . The plays she fixed on were ' The Gamester ' and ' Douglas . ' Norval was a favourite character with me , but Beverley I had to study , and with the appalling ...
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Popular passages
Page 387 - Action is transitory — a step, a blow. The motion of a muscle — this way or that — 'Tis done, and in the after-vacancy We wonder at ourselves like men betrayed : Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
Page 122 - I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
Page 182 - And in their silent faces did he read Unutterable love. Sound needed none, Nor any voice of joy ; his spirit drank The spectacle : sensation, soul, and form All melted into bun ; they swallowed up His animal being; in them did he live, And by them did he live ; they were his life. In such access of mind, in such high hour Of visitation from the living God, Thought was not ; in enjoyment it expired.
Page 84 - For ill can Poetry express Full many a tone of thought sublime, And Painting, mute and motionless, Steals but a glance of time. But by the mighty actor brought, Illusion's perfect triumphs come, — Verse ceases to be airy thought, And Sculpture to be dumb.
Page 74 - My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.
Page 406 - The discretion of a man deferreth his anger ; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.
Page 308 - I noted one odd saying of Lamb's, that " the last breath he drew in he wished might be through a pipe and exhaled in a pun.
Page 695 - To fathom the depths of character, to trace its latent motives, to feel its finest quiverings of emotion, to comprehend the thoughts that are hidden under words, and thus possess one's self of the actual mind of the individual man" — such was Macready's definition of the player's art ; and to this we may add the testimony of Talma.
Page 48 - With a spirit of fun that would have out-laughed Puck himself, there was a discrimination, an identity with her character, an artistic arrangement of the scene, that made all appear spontaneous and accidental, though elaborated with the greatest care. Her voice was one of the most melodious I ever heard, which she could vary by certain bass tones, that would have disturbed the gravity of a hermit...
Page 73 - My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late ! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, That I must love a loathed enemy.