Autobiography of an Actress: Or, Eight Years on the StageTicknor, Reed, and Fields, 1854 - Всего страниц: 448 |
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Autobiography of an Actress: Or, Eight Years on the Stage Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie Полный просмотр - 1854 |
Autobiography of an Actress, Or, Eight Years on the Stage Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie Полный просмотр - 1854 |
Autobiography of an Actress: Or, Eight Years on the Stage Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie Полный просмотр - 1854 |
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Стр. 166 - Of all that is most beauteous, imaged there In happier beauty ; more pellucid streams, An ampler ether, a diviner air, And fields invested with purpureal gleams ; Climes which the sun, who sheds the brightest day Earth knows, is all unworthy to survey. Yet there the soul shall enter which hath earned That privilege by virtue.
Стр. 440 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both!
Стр. 444 - I have heard That guilty creatures, sitting at a play, Have by the very cunning of the scene Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions; For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.
Стр. 303 - I have great hope in that: for in her youth There is a prone and speechless dialect Such as moves men; beside, she hath prosperous art When she will play with reason and discourse, And well she can persuade.
Стр. 444 - To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart, To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold...
Стр. 120 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet But hark!
Стр. 430 - ... of morality ; that the stage is a supplement to the pulpit ; where virtue, according to Plato's sublime idea, moves our love and affections when made visible to the eye.
Стр. 64 - Happy he With such a mother ! faith in womankind Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high Comes easy to him, and tho' he trip and fall He shall not blind his soul with clay.