Reminiscences, Band 1Harper & Brothers, 1899 |
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Seite 419 - I have taken a few undeniable truths out of many, and have labored to make my readers realize those appalling facts of the day which most men know, but not one in a thousand comprehends, and not one in a hundred thousand realizes, until fiction — which, whatever you may have been told to the contrary, is the highest, widest, noblest, and greatest of all...
Seite 414 - I had produced a play, and is without precedent unless when an affront was intended. As I never forgive an affront, I am not hasty to suppose one intended. It is very possible that this was done inadvertently ; and the present stage-list may have been made out without the older claims being examined. Will you be so kind as to let me know at once whether this is so, and if the people who stopped me at the stage-door are yours, will you protect the author of " Gold," etc., from any repetition of such...
Seite 191 - cautious and timid passengers to cross from one side of the street to the other without peril from the crush of wheeled traffic.
Seite 415 - If ignorance is bliss on general occasions, on the present it certainly would be folly to be wise. I am therefore happy to be able to inform you that I am ignorant of your having produced a play at this theatre ; ignorant that you are the author of " Gold " } ignorant of the merits of that play ; ignorant that your name has been erased from the list at the stage-door ; ignorant that it had ever been on it ; ignorant that you had presented yourself for admittance ; ignorant that it had been refused...
Seite 354 - Mr. George W. E. Russell entertains similar misgivings. He found his ideal talker in Mr. Matthew Arnold, "a man of the world without being frivolous, and a man of letters without being pedantic"; and he considers this admirable combination as necessary as it is rare. American chroniclers point back...
Seite 169 - Drew forth a pocket pistol from his vesture, And fired it into one assailant's pudding — "Who fell, as rolls an ox o'er in his pasture, And roared out, as he writhed his native mud in, Unto his nearest follower or henchman, • Oh Jack! I'm floored by that ere bloody Frenchman!
Seite 122 - After those visits to Paris of which I have just spoken, I never saw Louis Blanc again. I always account it one of the privileges of my life to have known him, and...
Seite 414 - DEAR SIR, — If ignorance is bliss on general occasions, on the present it certainly would be folly to be wise. I am therefore happy to be able to inform you that I am ignorant of your having produced a play at this theatre ; ignorant that you are the author of
Seite 372 - ... which happened during his American tour. Some of the railway companies were at that time in the habit of issuing tickets at a reduced rate for theatrical companies travelling through the States ; and the privilege was occasionally extended to professional lecturers. Now and then the classifications got a little mixed, and Matthew Arnold was once amazed and amused to see that he and his secretary were travelling on tickets issued to the Matthew Arnold Comic Opera Company.
Seite 415 - Lyceum ; ignorant that the doorkeeper was ever in that theatre ; ignorant that you never forgive an affront ; ignorant that any had been offered ; ignorant of when, how, or by whom the list was made out, and equally so by whom it was altered. ' Allow me to add that I am quite incapable of offering any discourtesy to a gentleman I have barely the pleasure of knowing, and moreover have no power whatever to interfere with Mr. Smith's arrangements or disarrangements ; and, with this wholesale admission...