The Life of David Belasco

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Jefferson Winter, 1918 - 530페이지

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194 페이지 - Come, fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring Your Winter-garment of Repentance fling: The Bird of Time has but a little way To flutter — and the Bird is on the Wing.
82 페이지 - HE lived in that past Georgian day, When men were less inclined to say That " Time is Gold," and overlay With toil their pleasure ; He held some land, and dwelt thereon,— Where, I forget, — the house is gone ; His Christian name, I think, was John, — His surname, Leisure. Reynolds has painted him, — a face Filled with a fine, old-fashioned grace...
382 페이지 - Odds life, sir ! if you have the estate, you must take it with the live stock on it, as it stands.
186 페이지 - ... nomadic youth. When the scene, the interior of the Girl's log-cabin, was disclosed the spectators perceived, dimly, through windows at the back, a far vista of rugged, snow-clad mountains which gradually faded from vision as the fall of snow increased and the casements became obscured by sleet. Then throughout the progress of the action, intensifying the sense of desolation, dread and terror, the audience heard the wild moaning and shrill whistle of the gale, and at moments, as the tempest rose...
298 페이지 - Scandal, to which, except for the purpose of exposing absurdity, I should not have thought it worth while to allude. It is an old trick of Detraction, — and one, of which it never tires, — to father the works of eminent writers upon others; or, at least, while it kindly leaves...
194 페이지 - The Girl of the Golden West," and I cannot help thinking that with certain modifications it might easily be adapted for the operatic stage. Would you be good enough to send me a copy of the play, to Torre del Lago, Pisa, Italia? I could then have it translated, study it more carefully, and write to you my further impressions.
86 페이지 - School for Scandal." Analyzing the details of that situation as presented in these two plays, the points of essential difference so far outnumber the points of similarity that it is difficult to understand how anyone could persuade himself that the one was borrowed from the other.
409 페이지 - Rather let prudence and temper come first from this side. I will undertake for America that she will follow the example.
309 페이지 - The Wandering Heir" a mere plagiarism from Swift, one could juggle those who read quotations, not books, into believing: — 1. That the Old Testament is full of indelicacy. 2. That the miracles of Jesus Christ are none of them the miracles of a God, nor even of a benevolent man: — giving water intoxicating qualities, when the guests had drunk enough, goodness knows; cursing a fig-tree; driving pigs to a watery grave. • This is how Voltaire works the sham-sample swindle, and gulls Frenchmen that...

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