The Tragedian: An Essay on the Histrionic Genius of Junius Brutus BoothHurd and Houghton, 1868 - 189 pages |
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... speak it profanely , he offered himself a perpetual sacrifice to the god of terror and of beauty ; he staked " soul and body on the action both , " and the exhaustion sometimes attendant upon his performance of the fiery rite , was ...
... speak it profanely , he offered himself a perpetual sacrifice to the god of terror and of beauty ; he staked " soul and body on the action both , " and the exhaustion sometimes attendant upon his performance of the fiery rite , was ...
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... speak with strict- ness , he never re - cited at all . He possessed himself of the character , and its language , and then uttered it from inspiration , and according to the emergency of the scene and the situation . Memory , the prime ...
... speak with strict- ness , he never re - cited at all . He possessed himself of the character , and its language , and then uttered it from inspiration , and according to the emergency of the scene and the situation . Memory , the prime ...
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... speak as one conscious of his immor- tality . In fine contrast came the passionate outbreak " My fate cries out And makes each petty artery in this body As hardy as the Nemean lion's nerve . " We know not whether the action origi- nated ...
... speak as one conscious of his immor- tality . In fine contrast came the passionate outbreak " My fate cries out And makes each petty artery in this body As hardy as the Nemean lion's nerve . " We know not whether the action origi- nated ...
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... speaking , and beginning the next speech before he reën- tered . We seem now to hear his voice ring- ing , out of view , the phrase “ I have heard of your paintings too , well enough . ” Only when imploring her to go to a nunnery did he ...
... speaking , and beginning the next speech before he reën- tered . We seem now to hear his voice ring- ing , out of view , the phrase “ I have heard of your paintings too , well enough . ” Only when imploring her to go to a nunnery did he ...
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... speak - daggers to her . " į That word " inmost " touched the core of the matter . The sound of it , greatly pro- longed on the first syllable , was like a search- ing probe of steel . After he had killed Po- lonius , mistaking him for ...
... speak - daggers to her . " į That word " inmost " touched the core of the matter . The sound of it , greatly pro- longed on the first syllable , was like a search- ing probe of steel . After he had killed Po- lonius , mistaking him for ...
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acter action actor appeared audience Banquo bare bodkin beauty blood Booth gave Brabantio brain Brutus Cassio char character charm City Madam Cordelia delight Desdemona dramatic Edmund Kean emotion emphasis expression face father fear feeling filled Garrick genius gesture ghost Goneril grandeur grief Guest Hamlet hand heard heart heaven histrionic Iago Iago's imagination intense intonation Kean's king kingly Lady Lady Macbeth Lamb's Lear light lines listener living look Lord Lovel Macbeth madness manner meaning melancholy mood murder nature ness never noble OCTAVIAN Othello pass passage passion pathos pause pay Old Debts performance Pescara phrase play players Polonius preter Regan resonant Richard Roderigo scene scorn seemed Shake Shakespeare Shylock silent Sir Giles soliloquy soul sound speak speech spirit stage stroke subtle supernatural sword tender theatre thee Third Act thou thought tion tones touch TRAGEDIAN tragedy truth uttered voice wonder words
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Page 120 - You owe this strange intelligence? or why Upon this blasted heath you stop our way With such prophetic greeting? Speak, I charge you. [Witches vanish. Ban. The earth hath bubbles, as the water has, And these are of them.
Page 71 - Horatio, what a wounded name, Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me. If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart, Absent thee from felicity awhile, And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain, To tell my story.
Page 63 - What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel, Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous; and we fools of nature So horridly to shake our disposition With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?
Page 54 - My father's spirit in arms ! all is not well ; I doubt some foul play: 'would, the night were come! Till then sit still, my soul : Foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.
Page 101 - Twere now to be most happy, for I fear My soul hath her content so absolute That not another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate.
Page 65 - Come, come, and sit you down ; you shall not budge ; You go not till I set you up a glass Where you may see the inmost part of you.
Page 105 - Tis not to make me jealous, To say — my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company, Is free of speech, sings, plays, and dances well; Where virtue is, these are more virtuous: Nor from mine own weak merits will I draw The smallest fear, or doubt of her revolt; For she had eyes, and chose me...
Page 90 - Look, where he comes ! Not poppy, nor mandragora, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep Which thou ow'dst yesterday.
Page 12 - ... the corruptions and abuses of mankind. What have looks, or tones, to do with that sublime identification of his age with that of the heavens themselves, when, in his reproaches to them for conniving at the injustice of his children, he reminds them that " they themselves are old "? What gesture shall we appropriate to this?
Page 59 - tis not to come ; if it be not to come, it will be now ; if it be not now, yet it will come ; the readiness is all ; since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is't to leave betimes?