Twelve Great ActressesG.P. Putnam's sons, 1900 - 446 strán (strany) |
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Strana 106 - For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day ; But he who is in battle slain Can never rise and fight again.
Strana 31 - ... upon him her whole artillery of airs, eyes, and motion. Down goes her dainty diving, body to the ground, as if she were sinking under the conscious load of her own attractions ; then launches into a flood of fine language and compliment, still playing her chest forward in fifty falls and risings, like a swan upon waving water ; and, to complete her impertinence, she is so rapidly fond of her own wit that she will not give her lover leave to praise it. Silent assenting bows, and vain...
Strana 67 - ... I, gentlemen of the jury ; that he wears very fine clothes, much finer clothes than you or I, gentlemen of the jury ; that he has abundance of money in his pocket, much more money than you or I, gentlemen of the jury ; but, gentlemen of the jury, is it not a very hard case.
Strana 20 - ... with wits that I don't like because they are your acquaintance ; or to be intimate with fools because they may be your relations. Come to dinner when I please, dine in my dressing-room when I'm out of humour, without giving a reason.
Strana 375 - O, sir, I will not be so hard-hearted; I will give out divers schedules of my beauty: it shall be inventoried, and every particle and utensil...
Strana 211 - 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...
Strana 429 - In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book, or goes to an American play, or looks at an American picture or statue...
Strana 10 - The business of Plays is to recommend Virtue and discountenance Vice; to show the Uncertainty of Human Greatness, the sudden turns of Fate, and the unhappy conclusions of Violence and Injustice; 'tis to expose the singularities of Pride and Fancy, to make Folly and Falsehood contemptible, and to bring everything that is ill under Infamy and Neglect.
Strana 87 - I had broken my neck in the attempt. The trial scene wound up the fulness of my reputation ; here I was well listened to, and here I made such a silent yet forcible impression on my audience that I retired from this great attempt most perfectly satisfied.
Strana 185 - For the first time, I saw the justly celebrated Mrs Siddons in comedy, — in Rosalind : — but though her smile is as enchanting, as her frown is magnificent, as her tears are irresistible, yet the playful scintillations of colloquial wit, which most strongly mark that character, suit not the dignity of the Siddonian form and countenance. Then her dress was injudicious. The scrupulous prudery of decency, produced an ambiguous vestment, that seemed neither male nor female.