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...lete relief from all conscientious responsibility for the character of the entertainment at his theatre. Under such circumstances, managers would be m... ...utioner; when the audience was simply disappointed at being baulked of the entertainment of hearing Mr Robert Harcourt cross-examine me; in short, whe... ...tre, might convert any dialogue, how- ever innocent, into just the sort of entertainment against which the Censor is supposed to protect the public. I... ...means may be devized for securing the orderly conduct of houses of public entertainment, dramatic or other. Liberty must, no doubt, be respected in s... ...g authority to demand from the manager any disclosure of the nature of any entertainment he proposes to give, or to prevent its performance, or to ref... ... of London playgoers will tolerate in theatres especially devoted to their entertainment, licensing everything that is popular and forbidding any atte... ...theatre or the author of a play in respect of the character of the play or entertainment. B. No disclosure of the particulars of a theatrical en- tert... ...of theatres is dangerous to religion and morals, or on the ground that any entertainment given or contemplated is heretical or immoral. D. The licensi... ...on hall, school, or other place of worship, edification, instruc- tion, or entertainment (including another theatre) would draw the public away from s...

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...ames a little since I saw the papers nand serve up a bull fight when other entertainments fail, it will be true to the letter, and give us as good an ... ...such things as we know, would be like a fairy tale and the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments. If we respected only what is inevi table and has a right t... ... “Arrived there, the little house they fill, Ne looke for entertainment where none was; Rest is their feast, and all things a... ...nd sights I heard and saw anywhere in the row, a part of the inexhaustible entertainment which the country offers. On gala days the town fires its g... ...losophers of all nations might put up, and on his sign should be printed, “Entertainment for man, but not for his beast. Enter ye that have leisure an... ...at Looker! Great Expecter! to converse with whom was a New England Night’s Entertainment. Ah! such discourse we had, her mit and philosopher, and the... ...y meal. All day long the red squirrels came and went, and afforded me much entertainment by their manoeuvres. One would approach at first warily throu... ...they had not got, and could not buy. The style, the house and grounds and “entertainment” pass for nothing with me. I called on the king, but he made ...

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...er them plump and fat for a good table. A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends; and when the family dines alone, the fore or hin... ...ill make a considerable figure at a lord mayor s feast or any other public entertainment. But this and many others I omit, being studious of brevity. ...

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...wearisome and vulgar except actresses and her dressmaker. Not one of these entertainments passed without the hostess starting at every ring at the bel... ...undred years, but in its actual condition the theatre can serve only as an entertainment. But this entertainment is too costly to be frequently enjoye...

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...Colo- nial Office, which had charge of him, was at its wit’s end to devise entertainments to keep him in good-humor until the appointed time for his d... ...ed to let it proceed on seeing the African king, who had watched the whole entertainment up to the present without displaying the least interest, now ... ...hing except four- sided, or in some way suggestive of the “Arabian Nights’ Entertainments,” and out of keeping with the associations of her father’s l...

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...y happens when a peace has been concluded, to have occurred only to afford entertainment to prosperous and unconcerned people. Half a year had scarcel... ...rstood little or nothing of what was said, and therefore could only derive entertainment from the ac- tion and the tone of voice. I understood least o... ...dukes,”* which, as accents governing here and there, gave me not a little entertainment. But even these shallow jests soon lost their charm. Neverthe... ..., and contrived, as I had many acquaintances, to conceal my actual evening entertainments from my family. To see and to be near the dear girl was soon... ... self. Yet this teaching and learning, this mutual labor, afforded us good entertainment. Gretchen took part in it, and had many a pretty notion; so t...

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...t what he did not know could not be worth knowing. “Sounds a most original entertainment!” he ex- claimed, and laughed in his pleasant way. “I wish Ev... ...k her leave. Evie had scarcely addressed her, and she sus- pected that the entertainment had been planned by the father. He and she were advancing out... ... have no practical person among us, except my aunt, and she is not used to entertainments on a large scale.” “I know,” he said gravely. “Under the cir...

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... placed, the next day, and perhaps remaining a week there, if I could have entertainment. Its mistress was a frank and hos pitable young woman, who s... ...ill remember the gnarled and hospitable oaks which grew even there for our entertainment, and were no strangers to us, the lonely horse in his pasture... ...ime as Niagara, and yet if there is no milk mingled with the wine at their entertainments, better is the hospitality of Goths and Vandals. My Friend i... ... as wind and water shifted the scene, and there was variety enough for our entertainment in the metamorphoses of the simplest objects. Viewed from thi...

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...that 242 Gogol it could not be seen that she goes to balls or fashionable entertainments. Our balls, I must confess, murder the in- tellect, deaden a... ...e officers, and mentally ordered in advance all manner of dishes for their entertainment. He smiled at these gentle- men, who on their part appeared t...

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...rren’s houses. Many people have been puzzled by the fact that whilst stage entertainments which are frankly meant to act on the 6 How He Lied to Her ...

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...son to think his time not ill spent, even when he cannot much boast of any great acquisition. This, Reader, is the entertainment of those who let loos... ...the ideas that are most familiar at first, being various according to the divers circumstances of children’s first entertainment in the world, the ord... ...ominated from them. 34. Seventhly, language is often abused by figurative speech. Since wit and fancy find easier entertainment in the world than dry... ...nifying such a proposition, for which there be argu- ments or proofs to make it pass, or be received for true. The entertainment the mind gives this s... ... greater or less degree to prepon- derate on either side; so they are fitted to produce in the mind such different entertainments, as we call be- lief...

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...look at places of interest; the evenings they passed enjoying the national entertainments. The prince rejoiced in health exceptional even among prince... ... whole Russian spirit consist in just this? In reality, of all the Russian entertainments the prince 5 Tolstoy liked best French actresses and ballet...

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...wn words,” said Grettir. “If you will come home with me I will give you what entertainment I can.” They thanked him and said they would accept his inv... ...e the cellar was. Grettir asked whether they would let him arrange for their entertainment, which they willingly agreed to. So Grettir went and fetch... ...him. Thorgils said he was welcome to his The Saga of Grettir the Strong 105 entertainment, like other free men; “but,” he said, “we do not pay much a... ...t know how it will suit you to be together with them. They shall always have entertainment here whenever they wish for it. You may stay here if you wi... ...d. Grettir went on to Thorskafjord. When some one asked him how he liked his entertainment at Reykjaholar he answered: “Our fare was such that I enjoy... ...th him. Skapti said: “Is it true, Thorgils, that you have been giving winter entertainment to three of the most unruly men in the country, all three o... ... where Grettir had then been for one winter, found Grettir and asked him for entertainment. He said: “I cannot allow people to play with me again as t...

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...ically for two thousand two hundred and sixty years. When I say that these entertainments are not plays, I dont mean in my sense of the word, but in t...

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...than that? Then I suppose you have come to town to amuse yourself with our entertainments? Mrs. Linde. I have come to look for work. Rank. Is that a g...

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...able presents and expensive 52 The Theory of the Leisure Class feasts and entertainments. Presents and feasts had probably another origin than that o... ...as now long been the substantial ground on which these usages rest. Costly entertainments, such as the potlatch or the ball, are peculiarly adapted to... ...ade to witness his host’s facil- ity in etiquette. In the giving of costly entertainments other motives, of more genial kind, are of course also prese... ...nue to be the sole mo- tives. The latter-day leisure-class festivities and entertainments may continue in some slight degree to serve the religious ne...

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...witness Of that report which I so oft have heard. And, for an entrance to my entertainment, I do present you with a man of mine, [Presenting HORTENSIO... ...O: Fiddler, forbear; you grow too forward, sir: Have you so soon forgot the entertainment Her sister Katharina welcomed you withal? HORTENSIO: But, ...

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...d powerful. Sojourner’s guide there was too much charmed with the combined entertainments of the place to be able to tear herself away, till she found...

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...housands of pounds spent every night in the season on professedly artistic entertainments which have no other effect on fine art than to exacerbate th...

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...r London music-halls are not subject to any censorship. They produce their entertainments on their own responsi- 14 Mrs. Warren’s Profession bility, ...