Macready as I Knew Him

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Remington and Company, 1884 - 141 стор.
 

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Сторінка 88 - O my love ! my wife ! Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty : Thou art not conquer'd ; beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death's pale flag is not advanced there.
Сторінка 120 - The arm'd rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger; Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble: or be alive again, And dare me to the desert with thy sword ; If trembling I inhabit then, protest me The baby of a girl.
Сторінка 65 - He took a turn or two up and down the room, and then said, ' I really am quite at a loss ; I cannot understand it.
Сторінка 39 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold...
Сторінка 84 - ... set an example which is accompanied with great peril, for the public is willing to have the magnificence without the tragedy, and the poet is swallowed up in display.
Сторінка 50 - Macready as I knew him, pp. 27, 50. feeling must move the performer; any interruption that checks the feeling, destroys the power'; and in the same delightful book we are told that he gave up the idea of teaching elocution 'with the conviction that no man could teach feeling; and to teach the rest without that, would only be to engraft his own manner upon another.
Сторінка 127 - Irreverent ribald ! If so, beware the falling ruins ! Hark ! I tell thee, scorner of these whitening hairs. When this snow melteth there shall come a flood ! Avaunt ! my name is Richelieu — I defy thee ! Walk blindfold on ; behind thee stalks the headsman. Ha ! ha ! — how pale he is ! Heaven save my country ! [Falls back in Joseph's arms.
Сторінка 11 - I'll imitate every muscle of that man's countenance." ' Macready told Lady Pollock5 that he 'once in a dream saw and heard definitely and distinctly a friend lately dead, who came to address to him words of admonition.
Сторінка 94 - When the weight of time and sorrow pressed him down, Dickens was his most frequent visitor. He cheered him with narratives of bygone days ; he poured some of his own abundant warmth into his heart ; he led him into new channels of thought ; he gave readings to rouse his interest ; he waked up in him again by his vivid descriptions, his sense of humour ; he conjured back his smile and his laugh — Charles Dickens was and is to me the ideal of friendship.
Сторінка 21 - The only shortcoming in the whole performance," he said to Lady Pollock, " was the Rosalind of Mrs. Nisbett, a charming actress in many characters, but not equal to that. She was not disagreeable, but she was inadequate.

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