Mimic Life: Or, Before and Behind the Curtain. A Series of NarrativesTicknor and Fields, 1856 - 408 páginas |
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Página ix
... Mind over Matter . Which is Vic- torious in an Actor's Life . - Stella's Personation of the Lady of Lyons . Inevitable Shortcomings of a Novice . The Press aroused . Inconstancy of the Public . A New Idol lifted to Lydia Talbot's ...
... Mind over Matter . Which is Vic- torious in an Actor's Life . - Stella's Personation of the Lady of Lyons . Inevitable Shortcomings of a Novice . The Press aroused . Inconstancy of the Public . A New Idol lifted to Lydia Talbot's ...
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... Mind . The Rescue.Night - Watchers in the Green Room . Bearing Tina Home . Incidents by the Way . - The Child's ... Minds in One . Seasons of Love , The The The 289 CHAPTER VII . Ill Effects of Mental Precocity . Preparation XII CONTENTS .
... Mind . The Rescue.Night - Watchers in the Green Room . Bearing Tina Home . Incidents by the Way . - The Child's ... Minds in One . Seasons of Love , The The The 289 CHAPTER VII . Ill Effects of Mental Precocity . Preparation XII CONTENTS .
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... more profitable - an idea of peculiarly American growth never found its way into her simple , un- calculating mind . She deemed herself grafted upon the family which she first entered ; their interests were 10 STELLA .
... more profitable - an idea of peculiarly American growth never found its way into her simple , un- calculating mind . She deemed herself grafted upon the family which she first entered ; their interests were 10 STELLA .
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... mind , seemed one of grief's needful expressions . Her wan face , grown prematurely old , rested on her thin hand ; her whole mien betokened the most perfect apathy . She could not occupy her- self ; she could not converse , or even ...
... mind , seemed one of grief's needful expressions . Her wan face , grown prematurely old , rested on her thin hand ; her whole mien betokened the most perfect apathy . She could not occupy her- self ; she could not converse , or even ...
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... mind grappled with his concep- tion of the enamored maiden , whose whole being is made captive by a passion as sudden and pure as it must have proved constant . Stella pondered upon the depth and rich variety of Juliet's attributes ...
... mind grappled with his concep- tion of the enamored maiden , whose whole being is made captive by a passion as sudden and pure as it must have proved constant . Stella pondered upon the depth and rich variety of Juliet's attributes ...
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50 cents actors actress Albert Allsop Altorf appeared Ariel arms asked audience Belton called child countenance curtain curtsey daugh daughter dear débût Desdemona door dramatic dress ears Edmonton Elma Elma's entered Evadne exclaimed eyes face Fairfax father fear Fisk flowers Floy Gesler Gisippus green-room hand head heart Heaven Higgins hour Hubert Iago Icilius Juliet lady laugh lifted light lips look Lord Oranmore Mattie mind Miss Amory Miss Doran Miss Rosenvelt morning Mortimer Mortimer's mother never night novice Oakland Othello pantomime passed Percy Perdita person play POEMS Pottle Price 75 cents prompter rehearsal replied returned Robin Rolla rose Ruthven scene seat seemed smile soul spirit stage Stella stood Susan sweet Tennent theatre theatrical thee thought Tina Tina's tion tone tragedian Truehart turned uncon uttered Virginia voice walked watch whispered wings words young girl
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Página 309 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form ; Then have I reason to be fond of grief.
Página 184 - He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone, At his head a grass-green turf, At his heels a stone.
Página 41 - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature; for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end both at the first, and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, 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.
Página 185 - There's fennel for you, and columbines; there's rue for you; and here's some for me; we may call it herb of grace o' Sundays. O, you must wear your rue with a difference. There's a daisy; I would give you some violets, but they withered all when my father died.
Página 186 - And will he not come again? And will he not come again? No, no, he is dead; Go to thy death-bed, He never will come again. His beard was as white as snow All flaxen was his poll, He is gone, he is gone, And we cast away moan: God ha
Página 259 - Only for wantonness. By my Christendom, So I were out of prison, and kept sheep, I should be as merry as the day is long...
Página 281 - Full fathom five thy father lies, Of his bones are coral made : Those are pearls that were his eyes, Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea change, Into something rich and strange.
Página 21 - Happy in this, she is not yet so old But she may learn; happier than this, She is not bred so dull but she can learn; Happiest of all in that her gentle spirit Commits itself to yours to be directed, As from her lord, her governor, her king.
Página 351 - 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.
Página 122 - To a babbling wanderer sent ; Like her ordinary cry, Like, but oh, how different ! Hears not also mortal life ? Hear not we, unthinking creatures ! Slaves of folly, love, or strife, Voices of two different natures...