The Melancholy Tale of "me": My RemembrancesC. Scribner's Sons, 1916 - 409 Seiten Autobiography of E.H. Sothern, an American actor who specialized in dashing, romantic leading roles and particularly in Shakespeare roles. |
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Seite 361 - Seest thou a man diligent in his business.* he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.
Seite 333 - ... renounce the devil and all his works, and constantly believe God's holy word, and obediently keep his Commandments. I demand therefore, DOST thou, in the Name of this child, renounce the devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of the world, with all covetous desires of the same, and the carnal desires of the flesh, so that thou wilt not follow, nor be led by them?
Seite 333 - Alas, poor Yorick ! I knew him, Horatio : a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy : he hath borne me on his back a thousand times ; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is ! my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now ? your gambols ? your songs ? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar...
Seite 361 - Seest thou a man diligent in his calling, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men...
Seite 194 - You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate As reek o' the rotten fens, whose loves I prize As the dead carcasses of unburied men That do corrupt my air, I banish you; And here remain with your uncertainty! Let every feeble rumour shake your hearts! Your enemies, with nodding of their plumes, Fan you into despair! Have the power still To banish your defenders; till, at length, Your ignorance...
Seite 379 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
Seite 383 - Hence ( of all people children are the most imaginative. They abandon themselves without reserve to every illusion. Every image which is strongly presented to their mental eye produces on them the effect of reality.
Seite 30 - But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek ; she pined in thought, And, with a green and yellow melancholy, She sat, like Patience on a monument, Smiling at...
Seite 257 - Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner and all quality, Pride, pomp and circumstance of glorious war...
Seite 379 - tis true I have gone here and there And made myself a motley to the view, Gored mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear, Made old offences of affections new.