Thoughts and After-thoughtsCassell, 1913 - 315 pages |
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... writers , so is Christ the most modern of Reformers ; indeed , He is a little in advance of our time ; His prin- ciples are still taboo , and if uttered by a modern statesman would be denounced as " bad form . " Is not every reformer ...
... writers , so is Christ the most modern of Reformers ; indeed , He is a little in advance of our time ; His prin- ciples are still taboo , and if uttered by a modern statesman would be denounced as " bad form . " Is not every reformer ...
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... writers , I have now and then to sweep aside the cobwebs woven of their fancy , I shall hope to do so with a light hand , serene in the assurance that good and strenuous work will survive the condemnation of a footnote 42 The Living ...
... writers , I have now and then to sweep aside the cobwebs woven of their fancy , I shall hope to do so with a light hand , serene in the assurance that good and strenuous work will survive the condemnation of a footnote 42 The Living ...
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... writer , is that it is the modern manager's " avowed intention to appeal to the spectator mainly through the eye . " If that be so , then the manager is clearly at fault - but I am unacquainted with that manager . We are told that the ...
... writer , is that it is the modern manager's " avowed intention to appeal to the spectator mainly through the eye . " If that be so , then the manager is clearly at fault - but I am unacquainted with that manager . We are told that the ...
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... it was now appropriate condition of the - unexpected · but illustration is the normal theatre . I have said that I could understand such writers 1 as Hazlitt , Lamb , and Emerson declaring that they 58 The Living Shakespeare.
... it was now appropriate condition of the - unexpected · but illustration is the normal theatre . I have said that I could understand such writers 1 as Hazlitt , Lamb , and Emerson declaring that they 58 The Living Shakespeare.
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... writers are never tired of dinning into our ears , that the higher aim of the artist is so to project his imagination into the character he is playing that his own individuality becomes merged in his assumption . This indeed is the very ...
... writers are never tired of dinning into our ears , that the higher aim of the artist is so to project his imagination into the character he is playing that his own individuality becomes merged in his assumption . This indeed is the very ...
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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.