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...ds of a master, compels a language which is as rich as Greek to be also as musical. The spring of 1773, which witnessed the publication of Götz, saw h... ...cene in Auerbach’s cellar. Egmont was also begun under the stimulus of the American Rebel- lion. A way of escaping from his embarrassments was unex- p... ...n my gable-room; while the persons managing and performing, as well as the theatre itself as far as the proscenium, found a place in the room adjoinin... ...hes. I made gestures, and leaped, as I had seen the dancers do at the fair-theatre. In the midst of this I looked in the glass, and saw by chance the ... ...me with him upon the stage, and led me especially to the foyers, where the actors and actresses remained during the intervals of the performance, and ... ...hought myself sufficiently well dressed; but it was not long before my fe- male friends, first by gentle raillery, then by sensible remon- strances, c... ...Huguenots, who settled there after the revocation of the edict of Nantes.— American Note. 235 Goethe me. Her ill health kept her constantly at home. ... ... on both the piano and the violin. The second, a true, good soul, likewise musical, enlivened the concerts which were often got up, no less than his e... ...to her: for, in the first place, she never thought of emulating one of the male sex; and, sec- ondly, she believed, that, in regard to religious cultu...

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... idols are Italy, England, Egypt, retains its fascination for all educated Americans. They who made England, Italy, or Greece venerable in the imagina... ...r of thought and quaint expression are as near to us as to any, and if the American artist will study with hope and love the precise thing to be done ... ...in darkness and light; in heat and cold; in the ebb and flow of waters; in male and female; in the inspi- ration and expiration of plants and animals;... ...or combine against it. Things refuse to be mismanaged long. Res nolunt diu male administrari. Though no checks to a new evil appear, the checks exist,... ...r run up hill, to twist a rope of sand. It makes no difference whether the actors be many or one, a tyrant or a mob. A mob is a society of bodies volu... ...oman his mien and manners, if his heart and aims are in the senate, in the theatre and in the billiard-room, and she has no aims, no conversation that... ...bulk left out, and the spirit or moral of it contracted 180 Essays into a musical word, or the most cunning stroke of the pencil? But the artist must... ...rt of human character,—a wonderful expression through stone, or canvas, or musical sound, of the deepest and simplest attributes of our nature, and th... ... is a certain appearance of paltriness, as of toys and the trum- pery of a theatre, in sculpture. Nature transcends all our moods of thought, and its ...

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...RS QUESTIONED When he had finished his speech, the president turned to the male prisoner. “Simeon Kartinkin, rise.” Simeon jumped up, his lips continu... ...vels, told improper anecdotes, went to see funny vaudevilles in the French theatre and gaily repeated the jokes, everybody admired and encouraged him.... ...uandering large sums of money, which came from some invisible source; then theatres, ballets, women, then again riding on horseback, waving of swords ... ... Well, our guessing was no use. The Lord willed otherwise,” she went on in musical tones. “Is it possible? Have they sentenced you?” asked Theodosia, ... ...ar artists.” “Yes, that’s so,” said the watchman’s wife, and ran on in her musical strain, “they’re like flies after sugar.” “And here, too,” Maslova ... ...e afraid of him,” said Khoroshavka, who managed to exchange notes with the male prisoners and knew all that went on in the prison. “He’ll run away, th... ...nd this is a thing not only we but many have been considering. There is an American, Henry George. This is what he has thought out, and I agree with h... ...s the Frenchman’s name. Perhaps you’ve heard of him. He makes wigs for the actors in the big theatre; it is a good business, so he’s prospering. He bo... ...lova’s would shape if she were acquitted. He remembered the thought of the American writer, Thoreau, who at the time when slavery existed in America s...

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...tner. The “Phoebus Apollo turned fasting friar” had entirely forgotten his musical gifts in motion. He crossed himself and crossed his bewildered lady... ...yes first of all men. She talked frankly of her cousins and friends, young males. She could have replied to his bitter wish: “Had you asked me on the ... ...ere and there, all around, she was yielding her hand to partners—obscurant males whose touch leaves a stain. Far too generally gracious was Her Starri... ...orcelain”. Vernon’s fancy of her must have sprung from her prompt and most musical responsiveness. He preferred the society of her learned father to t... ...se of the spirit being in her, and all the while she laughed, as at a vile theatre whereof the imperfection of the stage machinery rather than the per... ...n of a racy anecdote. What interest could he possibly take in the Athenian Theatre and the girl whose flute-playing behind the scenes, imitating the n... ...re not ‘calculating’. More offensive than debris of a midnight banquet! An American tour is in- structive, though not so romantic. Not so romantic as ... ...ook of the vestry, they enter into an engagement with a body of provincial actors to join the troop on the day of their nup- tials, and away they go i... ...t and sisterly. But taking a glance at the others of her late com- pany of actors, she compresses her lips. T o return to the Electronic Classics Seri...

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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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..................................................................... 182 THE AMERICAN POPULATION .......................................................... ...ory of this development and arrive at any other conclusion. The French and Americans can laugh at our aeroplanes, the Ger- mans are ten years ahead of... ... nor the overthrow of Napoleon; it is here and now. It falls to them to be actors not in a remi- niscent pageant but a living conflict, and the sooner... ...tinual repetitions. Now this human over-life may take either beneficent or maleficent or neutral aspects towards the general life of hu- manity. It ma... ...riters and artists, for example, nor the stage—though it may build and own theatres—the tailor, the dressmaker, the restaurant cook, an enormous multi... ...uality of this American tradi- tion of unconditional freedom for the adult male citizen. I have shown that from the point of view of anyone who re- ga... ...ays been his dream to have a piano. The youngest girl, he is convinced, is musical. As a man who has knocked about the world and has thought, he quite...

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...VIII. procured his divorce from Katharine of Arragon to the pleas on which American wives obtain divorces (for instance, “mental anguish” caused by th... ... female adultery is malversation by the woman and theft by the man, whilst male adultery with an unmarried woman is not an offence at all. But though ... ...enighted foreigners. Those of them who did not think it wrong to go to the theatre liked above every- thing a play in which the hero was called Dick; ... ...hich they called education; and of keeping pianos in their houses, not for musical purposes, but to torment their daugh- ters with a senseless stupidi... ...Shaw females lose their sex altogether and become workers sup- porting the males in luxury and idleness until the queen has found her mate, when the q... ...h parties as in Sweden, not to mention the experiments made by some of the American States, would have shaken society to its foundations. Yet they hav... ...en. I should like to have Rejjy for every day, and Sinjon for concerts and theatres and going out in the evenings, and some great austere saint for ab... ...? Is not the real thing accursed? Are not the best beloved always the good actors rather than the true sufferers? Is not love always 119 Getting Marr...

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...into the Strand. He had been to take a box for Armida at Madame V estris’s theatre. That little Armida was folle of Madame V estris’s theatre; and her... ...nights in the week at least, in the narrow, charming, comfort- able little theatre. Godfrey had the box. He was strolling, list- lessly, eastward; and... ...f Illyria. “I have already drawn it,” says I, “with my spurs.” “Malheur et malediction!” roared the Marshal. “Hadn’t you better settle your wig?” says... ...f my whiskers gone; whereas at the same moment, and shriek- ing a horrible malediction, my adversary reeled and fell. “Mon Dieu, il est mort!” cried N... .... I have seen no grandee of V ersailles that has the noble bearing of this American envoy and his suite. They have the refinement of the Old W orld, w... ...ne good service elsewhere than at Quebec,” the King said, appealing to the American Envoy: “at Bunker’s Hill, at Brandywine, at Y ork Island? Now that... ... that there was a person by the name of Blondel, who, in fact, did all the musical part of the King’s performances; and as for the words, when a king ... ...as the evening of the 27th March, 1199, indeed—his Majesty, who was in the musical mood, treated the court with a quantity of his so-called compositio... ...imes in the course of the night, that I could manage to get a sight of the actors. By kneeling down, and looking steady under my darling Jemmy’s sleev...

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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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...r Jacko, and comfort him till I come back.’ Jacko was a middle-sized South American monkey, and had been a pet of her husband’s. He was supposed to be... ...estimate of the domestic life of Major and Mrs. Strike. Among the garrison males, his comrades, he passed for a disgustingly jealous brute. The ladies... ...his failures. He would not see that there was a father dead. At a table of actors, Mr. Andrew overdid his part, and was the worst. His wife could not ... ...believed himself an actor, and he was hissed off the stage of a provincial theatre. ‘Ruined, the last ignominy endured, I fled from the gay vistas of ... ...uct themselves as if they were at a play, and the rest of the company paid actors. He had likewise taken a posi- tion, and had been the first to laugh... ...ious feeling that had possessed him while she was rattling among the other males—a doubt whether she ever cast a thought on Mr. Evan Harrington. ‘Y es... ...d he came, I know, somewhere out of Drury Lane- one of the courts near the theatre—I don’t know much of London. However, old Mel wouldn’t have that. N... ...it for any other.’ ‘What do you mean?’ said Evan, thinking more of the un- musical laugh than of the words. He received no explanation, and the irksom... ...ally dragged in her wake. ‘ Another dowager and fogy!’ cried the Countess, musically. ‘Do you not dance, my child?’ ‘Not till the music strikes up,’ r...

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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...