Seen on the StageH. Holt, 1920 - 268 psl. |
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... task of building a play ; but , of all literary exercises , there is none more easy than to pen an endless stream of incoherent dialogue . For Mr. Shaw , the task of writing dialogue is even exceptionally THE LAZINESS OF BERNARD SHAW 59.
... task of building a play ; but , of all literary exercises , there is none more easy than to pen an endless stream of incoherent dialogue . For Mr. Shaw , the task of writing dialogue is even exceptionally THE LAZINESS OF BERNARD SHAW 59.
77 psl.
... literary ease and brilliance of his dialogue , and furthermore for his sin- cerity and earnestness as an almost homiletic moralist . His writing is particularly rich in that quality of sprightliness which the French call esprit ; and ...
... literary ease and brilliance of his dialogue , and furthermore for his sin- cerity and earnestness as an almost homiletic moralist . His writing is particularly rich in that quality of sprightliness which the French call esprit ; and ...
135 psl.
... literary and much too wordy for our taste . Our audience has not been trained , like the public of the Latin countries , to listen with approving patience to a lengthy drawing - out of lines . The text of this play was translated into ...
... literary and much too wordy for our taste . Our audience has not been trained , like the public of the Latin countries , to listen with approving patience to a lengthy drawing - out of lines . The text of this play was translated into ...
160 psl.
... literary training ; and he never acquired the advantage of a literary culture . In the decade of his ' teens , he did not go to school : in the decade of his twenties , he was not even registered as a regular student in the provincial ...
... literary training ; and he never acquired the advantage of a literary culture . In the decade of his ' teens , he did not go to school : in the decade of his twenties , he was not even registered as a regular student in the provincial ...
177 psl.
... literary purposes ; yet a considerable Yiddish literature has sprung into existence within the last quarter of a century , both for the library and for the stage ; and the geographical center of this new crea- tion is New York . Many of ...
... literary purposes ; yet a considerable Yiddish literature has sprung into existence within the last quarter of a century , both for the library and for the stage ; and the geographical center of this new crea- tion is New York . Many of ...
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actor actress Alfred de Musset alive American ancient appears Arliss artist audience Beauty called century character Clarence comedy composition Copeau Coquelin Count Tolstoi critics depiction dialogue Ditrichstein drama dramatist Dumas easily easy Edmond Rostand Edward Sheldon emotion English eternal not-ourselves Eugene O'Neill Euripides fact famous France French Gods Guibour Henri Lavedan Henry hero human Ibsen imagined impersonation Italy John Barrymore King laugh Lavedan literary Living Corpse Lord Dunsany Marquis de Priola Married Maurice Maeterlinck Maxim Gorki medieval merely mind modern Molière mood Musset Napoleon nearly never night numbers performance period person phrase piece playwright poet present produced prose reason recent regarded Richard III Richard Mansfield rôle Russian scene Sem Benelli sense Shakespeare Shaw Sophocles sort stage story subject-matter success Tarkington theatre theatre-going thing tion told tragic truth Tyltyl verse write written Yiddish York youth
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150 psl. - All causes shall give way ; I am in blood Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er : Strange things I have in head, that will to hand ; Which must be acted, ere they may be scann'd.
6 psl. - ... that day to God so walked he from his birth, In simpleness and gentleness and honour and clean mirth. So cup to lip in fellowship they gave him welcome high And made him place at the banquet board — the Strong Men ranged thereby, Who had done his work and held his peace and had no fear to die. Beyond the loom of the last lone star, through open darkness hurled, Further than rebel comet dared or hiving star-swarm swirled, Sits he with those that praise our God for that they served His world.
163 psl. - The One remains, the many change and pass; Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly; Life, like a dome of many-colored glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments.
230 psl. - The aim of a short-story [italics in original] is to produce a single narrative effect with the greatest economy of means that is consistent with the utmost emphasis.
89 psl. - He was neither a Reactionary nor an Anarchist. He neither respected the past for the insufficient reason that it was the past nor revered the future for the insufficient reason that it was the future. He freed his mind at once from traditions and from fads, and devoted his attention to the lofty task of "drawing the Thing as he saw It for the God of Things as They Are.
161 psl. - For theatrical talent consists in the power of making your characters, not only tell a story by means of dialogue, but tell it in such skilfully-devised form and order as shall, within the limits of an ordinary theatrical representation, give rise to the greatest possible amount of that peculiar kind of emotional effect, the production of which is the one great function of the theatre.
22 psl. - Je désire que mes cendres reposent sur les bords de la Seine, au milieu de ce peuple français que j'ai tant aimé.
250 psl. - Je jette avec grace mon feutre, Je fais lentement 1'abandon Du grand manteau qui me calfeutre, Et je tire mon espadon. . . . In a moment or two, the games of backgammon ceased and the whispering of falling cards was quenched in silence. I was soon enthroned upon a table and reading — in my rhetorical schoolboyish manner — the sonorous series of triolets beginning — ' Ce sont les cadets de Gascogne De Carbon de Castel-Jaloux. . . . At the end of the first stanza, that helter-skelter company...
254 psl. - C'est chose bien commune De soupirer pour une Blonde, chataine, ou brune Maitresse, Lorsque brune, chataine, Ou blonde, on 1'a sans peine. — Moi, j'aime la lointaine Princesse ! That final phrase has always sounded to.
51 psl. - All passes. Art alone Enduring stays to us; The Bust outlasts the throne, — The Coin, Tiberius; Even the gods must go ; Only the lofty Rhyme Not countless years o'erthrow,— Not long array of time.