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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... professional conduct by consid eration of any theory as to the alleged desire of the multi- tude . He proceeded on the simple doctrine that the best plays in the language are the plays that ought to be pre- sented , and that the highest ...
... professional conduct by consid eration of any theory as to the alleged desire of the multi- tude . He proceeded on the simple doctrine that the best plays in the language are the plays that ought to be pre- sented , and that the highest ...
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... Professional Tours .. 287 Chronology of the Life of Booth .. 293 Booth's Last Appearance . 298 Tributes .. 298 The Booth Memorial Window , at Newport ... 300 The Booth Burial Place , at Baltimore ..... 300 Booth's Funeral 302 Booth's ...
... Professional Tours .. 287 Chronology of the Life of Booth .. 293 Booth's Last Appearance . 298 Tributes .. 298 The Booth Memorial Window , at Newport ... 300 The Booth Burial Place , at Baltimore ..... 300 Booth's Funeral 302 Booth's ...
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... professional expeditions . The early training that he received was fitful and superficial . Experience of the world , however , and sometimes rough experience , combined with irregular tuition to develop his mind and mature his ...
... professional expeditions . The early training that he received was fitful and superficial . Experience of the world , however , and sometimes rough experience , combined with irregular tuition to develop his mind and mature his ...
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... professional appearance in the United States was made on July 13 , 1821 , at Richmond , Virginia , as Richard the Third . He then came to the Park theatre , New York , where he made a marked impression ; and that he deepened by playing ...
... professional appearance in the United States was made on July 13 , 1821 , at Richmond , Virginia , as Richard the Third . He then came to the Park theatre , New York , where he made a marked impression ; and that he deepened by playing ...
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... professional experience at the Sandwich Islands , the Samoan Islands , and Tahiti , occupied nine months . Booth was accompa- nied by D. C. Anderson and Laura Keene ; and it was arranged that those three were to constitute the nucleus ...
... professional experience at the Sandwich Islands , the Samoan Islands , and Tahiti , occupied nine months . Booth was accompa- nied by D. C. Anderson and Laura Keene ; and it was arranged that those three were to constitute the nucleus ...
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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...