Life and Art of Edwin BoothMacmillan and Company, 1893 - 308 Seiten "This biography rests upon intimate personal knowledge of the subject, and upon information furnished to me by Booth himself. He was aware that I intended to write his Life, and he expressed approval of that intention."from the author's preface |
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... kind- ness thus shown is gratefully acknowledged . The figures of Jeffer- son and Clarke have been copied from a picture owned by the author of this biography , and believed to be unique . The poem by Mr. Aldrich is reprinted · to grace ...
... kind- ness thus shown is gratefully acknowledged . The figures of Jeffer- son and Clarke have been copied from a picture owned by the author of this biography , and believed to be unique . The poem by Mr. Aldrich is reprinted · to grace ...
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... kind of dramatic entertainment that abounded in southern cities . M. W. Canning , at about that time , managed in Montgomery , S. B. Duffield in Mobile , and John Green ( " honest John " ) in Nashville . Jarrett and Ford were young ...
... kind of dramatic entertainment that abounded in southern cities . M. W. Canning , at about that time , managed in Montgomery , S. B. Duffield in Mobile , and John Green ( " honest John " ) in Nashville . Jarrett and Ford were young ...
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... kind in warning him against the possible danger of his mis- taking the exuberant force of youth for complete mas- tery of the art of acting . " You have had a wonderful success for a young man , " said that sagacious friend , " but you ...
... kind in warning him against the possible danger of his mis- taking the exuberant force of youth for complete mas- tery of the art of acting . " You have had a wonderful success for a young man , " said that sagacious friend , " but you ...
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... kind were left behind , and the star of good fortune began to loom , large and bright , above the horizon . Those friends in California who had anticipated prosperity and fame for him in the older States found their - - anticipations ...
... kind were left behind , and the star of good fortune began to loom , large and bright , above the horizon . Those friends in California who had anticipated prosperity and fame for him in the older States found their - - anticipations ...
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... kind letter of condo- lence and advice , I can only offer you my poor thanks . I was not aware , until it was too late , that you were in Boston , or I should have begged of you , who blessed us in the wedding of our hopes , a prayer on ...
... kind letter of condo- lence and advice , I can only offer you my poor thanks . I was not aware , until it was too late , that you were in Boston , or I should have begged of you , who blessed us in the wedding of our hopes , a prayer on ...
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Seite 261 - Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower ; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind ; In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be ; In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of human suffering ; In the faith that looks through death, In years that bring the philosophic mind.
Seite 127 - I have been studying how I may compare This prison, where I live, unto the world : VOL.
Seite 193 - ... well-defined effects and concomitants, all of which are visible in Leontes, and, I boldly say, not one of which marks its presence in Othello; — such as, first, an excitability by the most inadequate causes, and an eagerness to snatch at proofs ; secondly, a grossness of conception, and a disposition to degrade the object of the passion by sensual fancies and images; thirdly, a sense of shame of his own feelings, exhibited in a solitary moodiness of...
Seite xvi - mid the islands of the Blest, Or in the fields of empyrean light. A meteor wert thou crossing a dark night : Yet shall thy name, conspicuous and sublime, Stand in the spacious firmament of time, Fixed as a. star : such glory is thy right. Alas ! it may not be : for earthly fame Is Fortune's frail dependant ; yet there lives A Judge, who, as man claims by merit, gives ; To whose all-pondering mind a noble aim, Faithfully kept, is as a noble deed ; In whose pure sight all virtue doth succeed.
Seite xvi - ... t were, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.
Seite 106 - When I belonged to the Drury Lane Committee, and was one of the Sub-Committee of Management, the number of plays upon the shelves were about jive hundred. Conceiving that amongst these there must be some of merit, in person and by proxy I caused an investigation. I do not think that of those which I saw there was one which could be conscientiously tolerated.
Seite 160 - Nature at a single view : A loose he gave to his unbounded soul, And taught new lands to rise, new seas to roll ; Call'd into being scenes unknown before, And, passing Nature's bounds, was something more.
Seite 307 - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Seite 160 - In the first seat, in robe of various dyes, A noble wildness flashing from his eyes, Sat Shakespeare — in one hand a wand he bore, For mighty wonders fatn'd in days of yore, The other held a globe, which to his will Obedient turn'd, and own'd the master's skill ; Things of the noblest kind his genius drew, And look'd thro...