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Page 10 - WHEN the dumb Hour, clothed in black, Brings the Dreams about my bed, Call me not so often back, Silent Voices of the dead, Toward the lowland ways behind me, And the sunlight that is gone! Call me rather, silent voices, Forward to the starry track Glimmering up the heights beyond me On, and always on!
Page 27 - An Act for reducing the Laws relating to Rogues. Vagabonds. Sturdy Beggars. and Vagrants into One Act of Parliament. and for the more effectual punishing such Rogues. Vagabonds. Sturdy Beggars. and Vagrants. and sending them whither they ought to be sent'. as relates to common Players of Interludes: and another Act passed in the Twenty-eighth Year of the Reign of King George the Third.
Page 27 - An Act to explain and amend so much of an Act made in the Twelfth Year of the Reign of Queen Anne. intituled 'An Act for reducing the Laws relating to Rogues. Vagabonds. Sturdy Beggars. and Vagrants into One Act of Parliament. and for the more effectual punishing such Rogues. Vagabonds. Sturdy Beggars. and Vagrants. and sending them whither they ought to be sent'.
Page 22 - bee grevouslye whipped, and burnte through the gristle of the right Eare with a hot Yron of the compasse of an Ynche about"; and with a third conviction they were to "suffer paynes of Death
Page 34 - ... between control and aid, on all matters which have an indirect, as well as those having a direct, bearing on its welfare and its progress ; it should be even jealously mindful for the true good of those institutions which have power to touch the hearts of the people— to hold their sentiments, to awake and stimulate their imagination ; and so to aid in turning lofty thoughts into acts of equal worth. In this category the theater is an item of vast potentialities — a natural evolution of the...
Page 25 - ... happen to dwell ; and all counterfeiters of licences, passports, and all users of the same, knowing the same to be counterfeit ; and all scholars of the Universities of Oxford or Cambridge, that go about begging, not being authorized under the seal of the said Universities...
Page 36 - Maker, is compact of many neutralizing excellences and defects ; and we must not expect from the kaleidoscopic groupings of such imperfect items a flawless work. As the theatre must deal with the eternal conditions of humanity, so must it ever have weaknesses which result from human imperfection. But, as humanity has its nobler part, so, too, the theatre has capabilities of good which are as illimitable as the progress of man.
Page 34 - ... Throughout his life he always selected some subject connected with his work. His art with him was the Alpha and Omega of his endeavour. In this case he showed that, though some might regard the theatre as a mere pleasure-house, it had in truth a much more important use as a place of education. "I claim for the theatre that it may be, and is, a potent means of teaching great truths and furthering the spread of education of the higher kind — the knowledge of the scope and working of human character.
Page 23 - all fencers, bearwards, common players in interludes, and minstrels, not belonging to any baron of this realm, or towards any other honourable personage of greater degree...
Page 34 - In fine, I venture to assert that whereas the State should exercise an influence, ranging between control and aid, on all matters which have an indirect, as well as those having a direct, bearing on its welfare and its progress, it should be even jealously mindful for the true good of those institutions which have power to touch the hearts of the people - to hold their sentiments, to awake and stimulate their imagination; and so to aid in turning lofty thoughts into acts of equal worth. In this category...