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... end, I thank my husband Jeffrey Cathcart, my dear friend Tom Westlake, and actors Gerard Butler and Earl Carpenter for inspiration. I am also grat... ...bers to prepare for the night’s performance. Overhead, I heard a beautiful male voice singing. This was not the first time: probably one of the 4... ...cs a month. I could not even hold the bank account in my name as long as a male relative was available to manage the funds for me. It was a generou... ...e out of my reach, but I had no opportunity for dining out or attending the theatre. I sighed wistfully and returned to the carriage with my small p... ...tonight. I will send a note to your cousin, and to the fools who manage my theatre. You need a night to rest.” I could see there was no arguing wit... ...e that Erik was safely away from the opera house, and presented me with the musical monkey. Madame Giry’s eye’s widened. “It is one of his most pre... ...osom like the prow of a ship. She left a calling card, and invited us to a musical evening at their home just a few nights hence. Lady Harrington ... ...y favorite recipes for madeleines and cheese crisps, and had Russian tea and American coffee on offer. The ladies came to the first one in droves, a...

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...tion by Charles Dickens A publication of PSU s Electronic Classics Series American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens is a publicati... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvan... ...rom its roof. In the gallery opposite to the pulpit were a little choir of male and female singers, a violoncello, and a violin. The preacher already ... ...ich a half grown Duke of Clarence might be smothered easily. There are two theatres in Boston, of good size and construction, but sadly in want of pat... ...hat all the great sights are somewhere else. If a lady take a fancy to any male passenger’s seat, the gentleman who accompanies her gives him notice o... ...tes – Dickens 94 hotel with stores about its base, like some Continental theatre, or the London Opera House shorn of its colon nade, plunge into th... ...el discussions upon the same themes, in connection with Shakspeare and the Musical Glasses, of which we read in the Vicar of Wakefield. Near the city,... ...ding? On every side. Every session had its anecdotes of that kind, and the actors were all there. Did I recognise in this assembly, a body of men, who... ...f the mixing of cool liquors: but they were a merrier people here, and had musical instruments playing to them o’ nights, which it was a treat to hear...

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...Excerpt: Volume I. Preface: Nothing is more easy than to state the subject of ?The Ambassadors,? which first appeared in twelve numbers of The North American Review (1903) and was published as a whole the same year. The situation involved is gathered up betimes, that is in the second chapter of Book Fifth, for the reader?s benefit, into as few words as possible-- planted ...

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... of “The Ambassadors,” which first appeared in twelve numbers of The North American Review (1903) and was published as a whole the same year. The situ... ...“arranged for”; its first appearance was from month to month, in the North American Review during 1903, and I had been open from far back to any pleas... ...hort stay in London; an evening spent by Miss Gostrey’s side at one of the theatres, to which he had found himself transported, without his own hand r... ...d raised, on the mere expression of a conscientious won- der. She knew her theatre, she knew her play, as she had triumphantly known, three days runni... ...sh life. He had distracted drops in which he couldn’t have said if it were actors or auditors who were most true, and the upshot of which, each time, ... ...hat matter, it had begun to seem to him that there must only have been the male and the female. These made two exactly, even with the individual varie... ...ut of it, with his “home,” as Strether figured the place, in the Boulevard Malesherbes; which was perhaps why, re- pairing, not to fail of justice eit... ...em. It might have been, on analysis, nothing more than Shakespeare and the musical glasses; but it had served all the purpose of his appearing to have...

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...e shoe makers. The whole place looks as if it were the stage of some great theatre, and the curtain had just run up, for a picturesque ballet. And the... ...ONS of such a place as Albaro, the suburb of Genoa, where I am now, as my American friends would say, ‘located,’ can hardly fail, I should imagine, t... ... from the heat of the fire, and where the brave Courier plays all sorts of musical instruments of his own manufacture, all the evening long. A mighty ... ...t of Faith, are very commonly seen walking in the streets. There are three theatres in the city, besides an old one now rarely opened. The most import... ...ait for an opportu nity to hiss, and spare the actresses as little as the actors. But, as there is nothing else of a public nature at which they are ... ...y by the Jura mountains, sprinkled with snow, and lighted by the moon, and musical with falling water, was delightful; or how, below the windows of th... ...sed to view a little wooden doll, in face very like General Tom Thumb, the American Dwarf: gorgeously dressed in satin and gold lace, and actually bla... ...tared at again, without let or hindrance. The body of the room was full of male strangers; the crowd immense; the heat very great; and the pressure so... ...s to remind them that he took the money. The majority were country people, male and female. There were four or five Jesuit priests, however, and some ...

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...there dwelt an old, melancholy, grizzled man of the name of Tari (Charlie) Coffin. He was a native of Oahu, in the Sandwich Islands; and had gone to s... ...id, is uppermost in the mind of the Marquesan. It would be strange if it were oth- erwise. The race is perhaps the handsomest extant. Six feet is abou... ...ey of Hapaa, known to readers of Herman Melville under the grotesque misspell- ing of Hapar. There are but two writers who have touched the South Seas... ...tted. They must not sit on the paepae; they must not go up to it by the stair; they must not eat pork; they must not approach a boat; they must not co... ...both of these feasters and their meat; he clapped his hands, and gave me a stave of one of the old, ill-omened choruses. Centuries might have come and... ... above upon a woody valley: a little French fort, now disused and deserted, over- hangs the valley and the inlet. Atuona itself, at the head of the ne... ...icety of his inflections, the elegance of his gestures, and the fine play of his ex- pression, told us that. We, meanwhile, sat like aliens in a playh... ...ucted, or seem- ing so by contrast. There was much variety of measure, and towards the end of each piece, when the fun became fast and furious, a reco... ... fled; and when at length the leader found the wit or the author- ity to get his troop in motion and revive the singing, it was with much diminished f...

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...downward grimace, the necessitated wrinkles of which could be stretched by malevolence to a semblance of haughty dis- gust; reminding us, through our ... ... ‘There you’re wrong; nor wouldn’t be.’ ‘What’s that?’ was the gentleman’s musical inquiry. ‘That’s flat, as you was half a minute ago,’ the man re- j... ...as to meet the friends with whom her feelings were at home, among whom her musical gifts gave her station: they liked her for herself; they helped her... ... a short utterance between the nuptial two, of whom the unshamed exuberant male has found the sweet reverse in his mate, a 97 George Meredith haven o... ... He thanked heaven to his wife often, that he had nothing to do with North American or South American mines and pastures or with South Africa and, gol... ...and in- structed Germans not deviously march; whom acute and ad- venturous Americans, with half a cock of the eye in passing, compassionately outstrip... ...es. Visibly, that man Jarniman was disposed of with ease. As in the street-theatres of crowing Punch, distance enlisted pan- tomime to do the effectiv... ...lay- fulness of a cane. It bears resemblance to those accomplished natural actors, who conversationally present a dramatic situ- ation in two or three... ...ext day at eight of the evening I shall be address- ing our meeting in the Theatre. Simeon speaks. Beaves Urmsing insists on coming, T ory though he i...

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...ce certainly; nor a merry one, though very noisy. Look at the faces of the actors and buffoons when they come off from their business; and Tom Fool wa... ...does leave a disconsolate family to mourn his loss; so in academies of the male and female sex it occurs every now and then that the pupil is fully wo... ...taverns (for the Oriental Club was not as yet invented); he frequented the theatres, as the mode was in those days, or made his appearance at the oper... ...delighted beyond measure at the Ba- zaars; and in a whirl of wonder at the theatre, whither the good- natured lady took her. One day, Amelia had a hea... ...ere the principal themes. They are not, it is said, very bril- liant, in a musical point of view, but contain numberless good- natured, simple appeals... ...Fancy our late monarch George III when he heard of the revolt of the North American colonies: fancy brazen Goliath when little David stepped forward a... ...d gentleman was born), rector of Crawley-cum-Snailby, and of various other male and female members of the Crawley family. Sir Pitt was first married t... ...irit enough to bustle about for “a few select inmates to join a cheer- ful musical family,” such as one reads of in the Times. She was content to lie ... ...wether. There was Mr. John Paul Jefferson Jones, titularly attached to the American Embassy and correspondent of the New Y ork Demagogue, who, by way ...

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...e of his evening; he must be the hero of one of those mysteries with three actors which constitute an opera ball, and are known only to those who play... ...as become old-fashioned— was a girl of ten or twelve in the chorus of some theatre, more particularly at the opera, who was trained by young roues to ... ... can laugh and make others laugh. That gift of all great writers and great actors is proper to those who have investigated every social deep. At eigh-... ... natural. I met him by chance, three months ago, at the Porte-Saint-Martin theatre, where I went one day when I had leave, for we had a day a week at ... ...nd simplic- ity and depth which distinguished the wonderful heroine of the American Puritans. She had too, without knowing it, a love that was eating ... ... rose in life, require an answer, but even benevolent curiosity—as much as malevolent curiosity—went on from one inquiry to another, and found more th... ... than that he had hitherto pursued—to give a sum of money to some Frontin, male or female, to act and think for him. Madame de Saint-Esteve alone coul... ...g the same phrase, illustrate to attentive hearers the infinite variety of musical modes. The soul goes out into the voice as it does into the eyes; i...

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...res whom we have deliberately suffered to be bred for misery and ruin. The American portion of this story is in no other respect a carica- ture than a... ...or the most part (Mr. Bevan ex- pected), of a ludicrous side, only, of the American character—of that side which was, four-and-twenty years ago, from ... ...s to say the rumour origi- nated in the same base quarters, that a certain male Chuzzlewit, whose birth must be admitted to be involved in some obscur... ...is: merely adding, by way of a final spadeful, that many Chuzzlewits, both male and female, are proved to demonstration, on the faith of letters writt... ...the same thing any- where else. But he stopped to read the playbill at the theatre and surveyed the doorway with a kind of awe, which was not dimin- i... ...them as many sights, in the way of bridges, churches, streets, outsides of theatres, and other free spec- tacles, in that one forenoon, as most people... ...ve of our separation, Mr Jinkins and the gentle- men have made up a little musical party among themselves, and do intend, in the dead of this night, t... ... when gentlemen sit up late they drink, and when they drink they’re not so musical, perhaps, as when they don’t. But this is the arrangement; and I kn... ... of any im- pression from it, that, although Tom had been one of the chief actors, it was like a dream. No one had noticed him after they had left the...

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...ere to be for ever dis- appointed by the intervention, as it were, of some malevo- lent being, and who was at last to come off victorious from 10 Guy... ...because its existence was secret (that is, presumed to be so) from all the males of the family, but especially from the hus- band and master. He was, ... ...is time, when there’s sae little money stirring in Scotland wi’ this weary American war, that somebody may get the land a bargain—Deil be in them, tha... ...erest and astonish posterity! Their fortifications, their aqueducts, their theatres, their fountains, all their public works, bear the grave, solid, a... ...who was to usher him to the man of law. The period was near the end of the American war. The desire of room, of air, and of decent accommodation, had ... ... of the whole scene was at once destroyed, and the natural passions of the actors called forth into very indecent and active emulation, by a wag who t... ...w, so we must make the most of our conquest to-night.” This led to another musical trial of skill, and that to lively conversation. At length, when th...

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...e should he penetrate and split? Everythingness or Nothingness? He lost his male aggressiveness and confidence. As a result of his indecisiveness,... ...ch he could split all over again. In case you haven’t noticed; the Energy of male Impetus likes to penetrate things… and then go around and come ba... ...ines of mammals contain 24 vertebrae. This is why there are twelve notes on a musical scale. This is also why there are twelve meridians of the h... ...roperties of both waves and particles. This is why the main vibration of any musical note exists only as a whole, a half, and a third. This is why... ...ew lions? When there were millions of grazing animals? Why didn’t the North American natives colonize the land where millions of bison lived? It ... ...hapter Three: Summary of Hominid-Human development 205 The earliest North American cultures invented bone-tools and flint tools by themselves. B... ...ts time because it was mostly about pure meaninglessness… Super-sexy-slim actors… doing nothing but sitting around, eating pizza, drinking coffee... ...e of cleanliness? Affluent people who keep their homes spotless, go to movie theatres where they slop all of their food and drink containers onto th... ...ition of puppeteers outlasted all other Greek traditions? Why has the puppet theatre been the only ancient Greek tradition that has been handed down...

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...mary Donnelly Listen With Your Heart 5 Prologue The Victoria Theatre, Dayton, Ohio, 1866 He’s out! Finished. ... ...ght, his audience would clamor for a refund. And the shame of the Victoria Theatre presenting a magician who could not pull a scarf out of his sleev... ...Halverson’s new minstrel show which folded two nights after opening, of the musical pantomime Schwann had in rehearsal lampooning Boss Tweed and Tam... ...ing as he crashed against it. “No, Daniel! It’s not...” she heard another male voice call out. “Don’t stop him. Let him save her. It may be jus... ...bout making the arrangements already. We believe if you were married to an American citizen— “ He exploded. “Married? You must be mad. I’ve bar... ...t been?” “My name is Falkner. And I’ve been here long enough to know how Americans treat intruders.” The man was as tall as Daniel, and block s... ...to step into the role. The director and the crew were on payroll, half the actors on contract, just waitin’ for Helene. I dragged my feet cancelli... ... “Specifically, Danny, the female audience should want to identify, and the male audience should want to ravish. Morgan has the aptitude to send ev...

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...ge line of sea-board (stretching through twenty-four hundred miles) of the American United States; may enjoy fifty years for lei- surely repentance; a... ...ose. But what the world knows Wieland by is his ‘Oberon.’ Now in this gay, musical romance of Sir Huon and his enchanted horn, with its gleams of volu... ...are quoted or alluded to by Addison. Even these quotations he had from the theatre, or the breath of popular talk. Generally, if you see a line from S... ...e sections) to cite before the reader’s eye the chief pomps of the Grecian theatre, after invoking ‘the magnificent witch’ Medea, I call up Antigone t... ... of dramatically representing an impassioned tale, by means of dancing, of musical ac- companiment in the orchestra, and of elaborate pantomime in the... ... that, as the chorus sometimes intermingles too much in the action, so the actors sometimes intermingle in the business of the chorus. Now, when you a... ...e maternal ancestors of the present Wellesleys. Garret Wellesley, the last male heir of the direct line, in the year 1745, left his whole estate to on... ... well known upon that coast; and ‘faults’ may be a flash term for what the Americans call ‘notions.’ A part of the cargo it clearly is; and one is not... ... by persons who were not merely contemporary with the great civil war, but actors and even leaders in its principal scenes—there is hardly one which d...

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...v himself is now gener- ally regarded as a universal character. We find an American professor, William Lyon Phelps*, of Yale, holding the opinion that... ...ut meeting scores of Chichikovs; indeed, he is an accurate portrait of the American promoter, of the successful commercial trav- eller whose success d... ... play- ers—the latter clad in frockcoats of the kind usually af- fected by actors whose part it is to enter the stage during the closing act of a piec... ... for articles of a smaller nature, such as visiting cards, memorial cards, theatre tick- ets, and things which Chichikov had laid by as souvenirs. Thi... ...ed Nozdrev. “And one for me as well,” added the flaxen-haired man. “At the theatre,” went on Nozdrev, “there was an ac- tress who sang like a canary. ... ... split within a fortnight, and brought down upon your head dire showers of male- dictions; with the result that gradually your shop grew empty of cust... ...ir business with the Governor’s wife, the ladies’ party descended upon the male section, with a view to influencing it to their own side by asserting ... ...for a certain dimness and want of clarity in my principal char- acters and actors, that will be tantamount to saying that never do the broad tendency ... ... for instance?” “For a young man, dancing, the playing of one or an- other musical instrument, and—well, yes, marriage.” “Marriage to whom?” “To some ...

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...ng about it!’ ‘They can’t mend,’ said Mysie. ‘Besides, do you know, in the American war, all the sewing-machines in the Southern States got out of ord... ...criti- cisms on plays and novels. I know he always has tickets for all the theatres and exhibitions. She did not say how she did know it, for a pang s... ...that a person answering to his description had embarked at Liverpool in an American-bound steamer. This idea, though very uncertain, was a relief, at ... ... the elder boys, walked to evensong at a neighbouring church noted for its musical services, and Lady Merrifield, as she said, ‘lashed herself up’ to ... ...he French original existed in the house, and Fly started the idea that the male performers should speak En- glish and the female French; but this was ... ...olute best.’ The performance went off beautifully—at least so thought both actors and spectators. The dignity of the Bailli and the meddling of the dr...

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...de and supersede one's moral obligations towards non- affiliated humans. Thus, an American's moral obligation to safeguard the lives of American f... ...igation to save the lives of innocent civilians, however numerous, if they are not Americans. The larger the number of positive self-definitions I ... ...nd the ability to feel pain? Historically, philosophers like Kant (and Descartes, Malebranche, and Aquinas) rejected the idea of animal rights. Th... ...sitizes us to human suffering and makes us more prone to using violence on humans. Malebranche augmented this line of thinking by "proving" that an... ...iving them copies of it without "eroding" the original. We shed tears in the movie theatre because the director succeeded to replicate an emotion i... ...pts and tenets. Consider this sample of outstanding issues: Unlike other economic actors and agents, governments are accorded a special status and... ... is nothing morally wrong with this. Some people get to sit in the front rows of a theatre, or to travel in luxury, or to receive superior medical ... ...ists (like musicians) - often describe their interpretation of an artwork (e.g., a musical piece) in terms of this type of intuition. Many mathemat... ...nt individualism play an important socio-cultural role in this semipternal game of musical chairs. Many products have a limited shelf life or an ex...

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...de and supersede one's moral obligations towards non- affiliated humans. Thus, an American's moral obligation to safeguard the lives of American f... ...igation to save the lives of innocent civilians, however numerous, if they are not Americans. The larger the number of positive self-definitions I ... ...nd the ability to feel pain? Historically, philosophers like Kant (and Descartes, Malebranche, and Aquinas) rejected the idea of animal rights. Th... ...sitizes us to human suffering and makes us more prone to using violence on humans. Malebranche augmented this line of thinking by "proving" that an... ...iving them copies of it without "eroding" the original. We shed tears in the movie theatre because the director succeeded to replicate an emotion i... ...pts and tenets. Consider this sample of outstanding issues: Unlike other economic actors and agents, governments are accorded a special status and... ... is nothing morally wrong with this. Some people get to sit in the front rows of a theatre, or to travel in luxury, or to receive superior medical ... ...ists (like musicians) - often describe their interpretation of an artwork (e.g., a musical piece) in terms of this type of intuition. Many mathemat... ...nt individualism play an important socio-cultural role in this semipternal game of musical chairs. Many products have a limited shelf life or an ex...

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...- Adventures in the New World -- The first white man that ever set foot on the American continent -- Killing of Thorwald by natives -- His last instru... ...- Snakes and crocodiles -- The return to France -- Bougainville in the war for American independence 415- 422 CHAPTER XL. A Brief Biography of Captain... ...breeze, and when the breeze is blowing will curse the whistlers, lest by their musical efforts a storm should, be provoked. He will not tell the numbe... ...ieved that the travellers heard strange whisperings in the air and concerts of musical instruments, and the drums and noises of armies, which so disco... ...emale of which is superstitiously believed to lay her eggs on the back of the male who flies about with them until they are hatched; he watched the p... ...s usually their custom. As soon as they occupied the city, they seized all the male population and locked them Tip in the churches, then issued a proc... ...s that such a performance would have met with universal applause on a European theatre; and it so far exceeded any attempt we had made to entertain th... ... possible to distinguish the different movements; though one might suppose the actors were now almost tired, as their performance had lasted nearly ha... ...ek, not unlike what is sometimes practised in the comic dances on our European theatres. They formed the triple semi-circle as the preceding dancers h...

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...ceived my notions with contempt. He was a whig, with all the virulence and malevolence of his party; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. ... ...was not acted till 1749, when his friend David Garrick was manager of that theatre. The Gentleman’s Magazine, begun and car- ried on by Mr. Edward Cav... ...d, David Garrick, having become joint pat- entee and manager of Drury-lane theatre, Johnson honoured his opening of it with a Pro- logue, which for ju... ...hter from the motley assem- bly of philosophers, printers, and dependents, male and female. I know not how so whimsical a thought came into my mind, b... ...iga- tion, by transmitting to me copies of two letters from Dr. Johnson to American gentlemen. On Saturday, April 3, the day after my arrival in Londo... ...as Giardini, as that he is an eminent Grecian.’ Gold- smith. ‘The greatest musical performers have but small emoluments. Giardini, I am told, does not... ...as to the justice and wisdom of the conduct of Great-Britain to- wards the American colonies, while I at the same time requested that he would enable ... ....’ Boswell. ‘I think he should play once a year for the benefit of decayed actors, as it has been said he means to do.’ Johnson. ‘Alas, Sir! he will s... ...uld have done nothing else.’ Boswell. ‘Pray, Sir, did you ever play on any musical instrument?’ Johnson. ‘No, Sir. I once bought me a flagelet; but I ...

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...another on Monday afternoon, of plays which, unsuitable for the commercial theatre, were consid ered of sufficient merit to please an intellectual au... ...for by then a great change had come into my life. The manager of the Court Theatre, one Otho Stuart, had brought out a play which failed to please, an... ...st serve to keep his theatre open for a few weeks, by the end of which the actors he wanted for the play he had been obliged to postpone would be at l... ...anged in a horse shoe, which was reserved for a small party of English or American painters and a few Frenchmen with their wives. At least, they were... ...s, who painted still life with a certain amount of skill, and Clayson, the American sculptor. Raggles stood for rank and fashion at the Chien Noir. He... ...y off the most famous, the most infamous, of them all, Sprenger’s Malleus Malefikorum. ‘Here is one of my greatest treasures. It is the Clavicula Sa... ... became manifest. Of these, the most marvellous were those strange beings, male and female, which were called homunculi. The old philosophers doubted ... ...turn of the Pagan world, the sins of the Borgias.’ His voice, poignant and musical, blended with the suave music of the words so that Margaret felt sh...

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...fteen years since, as twin pioneers of the New Journalism of that time, we two, cradled in the same new sheets, made an epoch in the criticism of the theatre and the opera house by making it a pretext for a propaganda of our own views of life. So you cannot plead ignorance of the character of the force you set in motion. Yon meant me to epater le bourgeois; and if he prote...

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...two, cradled in the same new sheets, made an epoch in the criticism of the theatre and the opera house by making it a pretext for a pro- paganda of ou... ... friend William Archer holds up as examples of seriousness to our childish theatres. There the Juliets and Isoldes, the Romeos and T ristans, might be... ... and then disparage it as unworthy and indelicate. We laugh at the haughty American nation be- cause it makes the negro clean its boots and then prove... ...licacy would initiate any effort in that direction. There are no limits to male hypocrisy in this mat- ter. No doubt there are moments when man’s sexu... ...ng about our imperial destiny; but our eyes and hearts turn eagerly to the American millionaire. As his hand goes down to his pocket, our fingers go u... ... premier; for it is not in reason to suppose that a second such attractive male figure should appear in one story. The slim shapely frame, the elegant... ...it is impossible for us to under- take a joint arrangement. ANN. [in a low musical voice] Mamma— MRS WHITEFIELD. [hastily] Now, Ann, I do beg you not ... ... clarionet turning this tune into infinite sadness: (Here there is another musical staff.) The yellowish pallor moves: there is an old crone wandering... ... bob; that the history of each oscillation, which seems so novel to us the actors, is but the history of the last oscillation repeated; nay more, that...

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... I take my place behind this desk, and face this learned au- dience. To us Americans, the experience of receiving instruction from the living voice, a... ...uous an act. Particularly must this be the case on a soil as sacred to the American imagination as that of Edinburgh. The glories of the philosophic c... ...or violence, but complete absence of emotional reaction. If he went to the theatre, which he did out of habit, he could find no pleasure there. The th... ...ear so strange; it is as if I could not see any reality, as if I were in a theatre; as if people were actors, and everything were scenery; I can no lo... ... I could not see any reality, as if I were in a theatre; as if people were actors, and everything were scenery; I can no longer find myself; I walk, b... ...on the sly, and this fact, together with my jealousy of another one of her male admirers and my own conscience despising me for my uncontrollable weak... ...h between the two Ideals. The carnivo- rous-minded “strong man,” the adult male and can- nibal, can see nothing but mouldiness and morbid- ness in the... ...ertain feeling, in what the quality or worth of it consists. One must have musical ears to know the value of a symphony; one must have been in love on... ...w York, 1846, p. 3. 369 William James of light on land and sea, odors and musical sounds, all bring it when the mind is tuned aright. Most of us can ...

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...ll we eager him to eat of it himself. The same spirit inspired Miss Bird’s American missionaries, who had come thousands of miles to change the faith ... ... their ignorance of the religions they were trying to supplant. I quote an American in this connection without scruple. Uncle Sam is better than John ... ...- tered by another hand, came on the stage itself and was played by bodily actors; the other, originally known as Semiramis: A Tragedy, I have observe... ...tely stem. In boyhood, as he told me once, speaking in that tone that only actors and the old-fashioned common folk can use nowadays, his 38 Robert L... ...m; faithful for long to the same restaurant, the same church, and the same theatre, chosen simply for propinquity; stead- fastly refusing to dine out.... ...ecret pretensions, and give themselves out for the he- roes, brave, pious, musical and wise, that in their most shin- ing moments they aspire to be. S... ...ith words and for a while inhabit a palace of delights, temple at once and theatre, where they fill the round of the world’s dignities, and feast with... ...ir, an abstraction, an excuse for talk, a logical Aunt Sally, then may the male debater instantly abandon hope; he may employ reason, adduce facts, be...