Life and Art of Richard Mansfield: With Selections from His Letters, Band 2Moffat, Yard, 1910 |
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Seite 208 - The place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er...
Seite 166 - When passion first waked a new life through his frame, And his soul — like the wood that grows precious in burning — Gave out all its sweets to love's exquisite flame ! FILL THE BUMPER FAIR.
Seite 94 - Pleasure's the means, and pleasure is my end. No spleen, no trouble, shall my time destroy ; Life's but a span, I'll every inch enjoy.
Seite 12 - His was the spell o'er hearts, Which only Acting lends — The youngest of the Sister Arts, Where all their beauty blends. " For ill can Poetry express Full many a tone of thought sublime : And Painting mute and motionless Steals but one glance from Time. " But, by the mighty Actor brought, Illusion's wedded triumphs come — Verse ceases to be airy thought, And Sculpture to be dumb.
Seite 36 - It was on the moral side, and in my own person, that I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both...
Seite 83 - Having been asked by a sympathising friend how he happened to get such a severe cold? His reply was, "Why, do you know, I left my carriage yesterday evening, on my way to town from the Pavilion, and the infidel of a landlord put me into a room with a damp stranger.
Seite 36 - ... from an early date, even before the course of my scientific discoveries had begun to suggest the most naked possibility of such a miracle, I had learned to dwell with pleasure, as a beloved daydream, on the thought of the separation of these elements. If each, I told myself, could but be housed in separate identities, life would be relieved of all that was unbearable...
Seite 10 - For ill can Poetry express Full many a tone of thought sublime, And Painting, mute and motionless, Steals but a glance of time. But by the mighty actor brought. Illusion's perfect triumphs come, — Verse ceases to be airy thought. And Sculpture to be dumb. Time...
Seite 78 - I believe, exist in those days, but they were not then held in the same estimation as their more fortunate brethren of the shears. Schweitzer and Meyer worked for the prince ; and the latter had a page's livery, and on great occasions superintended the adornment of his Royal Highness's person. The...
Seite 50 - ... perceive a rare elevation of the style and of the theme produced by returning to the text of Shakespeare under the illumination of one of the most wonderful pieces of acting of our, and probably of all, time. W. WINTER (Shadows, etc.; series i, p. 304): Richard Mansfield's version was in five acts, preserving the text of the original, much condensed, and introducing a few lines from Gibber. It began with a bright processional scene before the Tower of London, in which Elizabeth, Queen of Edward...