Thoughts and After-thoughtsCassell, 1913 - 315 pages |
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... true " ; but I am bound to say that this latest development of the new art seems to me frankly insincere where it is not obviously unhealthy . After a time I turned from the pictures to watch the faces of the spectators , and while in ...
... true " ; but I am bound to say that this latest development of the new art seems to me frankly insincere where it is not obviously unhealthy . After a time I turned from the pictures to watch the faces of the spectators , and while in ...
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... true happiness Lies in content , And sweet content Finds everywhere enough . ' ' Oh , wise one ! ' said the eagle , while he sank In deep and ever deep'ning thought— ' Oh ! wisdom ! thou speakest like a dove . ' ” I have no doubt that ...
... true happiness Lies in content , And sweet content Finds everywhere enough . ' ' Oh , wise one ! ' said the eagle , while he sank In deep and ever deep'ning thought— ' Oh ! wisdom ! thou speakest like a dove . ' ” I have no doubt that ...
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... true to himself , that is man's best endeavour ; for , as Shakespeare says ( and he says everything that can be said on any con- ceivable subject better than any other could say it ) , " To thine own self be true , and it must follow ...
... true to himself , that is man's best endeavour ; for , as Shakespeare says ( and he says everything that can be said on any con- ceivable subject better than any other could say it ) , " To thine own self be true , and it must follow ...
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... true knowing of Shake- speare's works is rendered by the careful pro- duction of one of these plays than by the indifferent -or , as I believe it is now fashionably called , the adequate " -representation of half a dozen of them . By ...
... true knowing of Shake- speare's works is rendered by the careful pro- duction of one of these plays than by the indifferent -or , as I believe it is now fashionably called , the adequate " -representation of half a dozen of them . By ...
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... true , the practice is a most reprehensible one . But are they true ? Is it not rather the fact that the old star system has of late given way to all - round casts of a high level ? I think the public taste and the practice of managers ...
... true , the practice is a most reprehensible one . But are they true ? Is it not rather the fact that the old star system has of late given way to all - round casts of a high level ? I think the public taste and the practice of managers ...
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Page 134 - To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, As he is very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me. I'll have grounds More relative than this: the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Page 250 - This cardinal, Though from an humble stock, undoubtedly Was fashion'd to much honour. From his cradle He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one ; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading : Lofty and sour to them that loved him not ; But, to those men that sought him, sweet as summer...
Page 259 - And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, say, I taught thee; Say, Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory, And sounded all the depths and shoals of honour...
Page 138 - Ay, truly ; for the power of beauty will sooner transform honesty from what it is to a bawd than the force of honesty can translate beauty into his likeness : this was sometime a paradox, but now the time gives it proof.
Page 70 - So great an object: can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt? O, pardon! since a crooked figure may Attest in little place a million; And let us, ciphers to this great accompt, On your imaginary forces work.
Page 115 - Up to the age of thirty, or beyond it, poetry of many kinds, such as the works of Milton, Gray, Byron, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Shelley, gave me great pleasure, and even as a schoolboy I took intense delight in Shakespeare, especially in the historical plays. I have also said that formerly pictures gave me a considerable and music very great delight.
Page 255 - Well, well, Master Kingston," quoth he, "I see the matter against me how it is framed; but if I had served God as diligently as I have done the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs.
Page 33 - Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony.
Page 145 - How all occasions do inform against me, And spur my dull revenge! What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
Page 142 - Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core — aye, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.