 I conquered,' it has been at the end of patient practice. Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline. Singing and acting, like the fine dexterity of the juggler with his cups and balls, require a shaping of the organs...  Daniel Deronda - Seite 99von George Eliot - 1876 - 288 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Scottish Rite (Masonic order). Supreme Council for the Northern Jurisdiction - 1897 - 1052 Seiten
...like the fine dexterity of the juggler with his cups and balls, require a shaping of the organs toward a finer and finer certainty of effect. Your muscles—...must go like a watch — true, true, true to a hair." If our eyes to-day again are dim with recollections of what JOHN SARTAIN was for us, while we recall... | |
 | William Chandler Bagley - 1911 - 280 Seiten
...like the fine dexterity of the juggler with his cup and balls, require a shaping of the organs toward a finer and finer certainty of effect. Your muscles,...go like a watch, — true, true, true, to a hair. This is the work of the springtime of life before the habits have been formed." And I can formulate... | |
 | Clara Louise Kellogg - 1913 - 496 Seiten
...like the fine dexterity of the juggler with his cups and balls, require a shaping of the organs toward a finer and finer certainty of effect. Your muscles...of springtime, before habits have been determined. This demonstrates what I cannot emphasise too heartily — the impossibility of taking people out of... | |
 | Charles Clinton Peters - 1918 - 460 Seiten
...like the fine dexterity of the juggler with his cup and balls, require a shaping of the organs toward a finer and finer certainty of effect. Your muscles,...must go like a watch — true, true, true to a hair. This is the work of the springtime of life before the habits have been formed. And the same thing that... | |
 | Alan Walker - 1987 - 662 Seiten
...what you have to strive for, and then you must subdue your mind and body to unbroken discipline. . . . Your muscles, your whole frame, must go like a watch,...of springtime, before habits have been determined." (EDD, pp. 99—101) Daniel Deronda may well have done more than anything else to convince Britain's... | |
 | George Eliot - 2006 - 460 Seiten
...toward a finer and finer certainty of effect. Your muscles - your whole frame - must go like a watch, true, true to a hair. That is the work of spring-time,...Klesmer wanted to represent as impossible. "I only suppose that I might have a little talent - enough to improve." "I don't deny that," said Klesmer.... | |
 | Patricia Zakreski - 2006 - 234 Seiten
...stage as another form of enslavement (Daniel Deronda, p. 218). 'Singing and acting', he tells her, 'require a shaping of the organs towards a finer and...must go like a watch, true, true, true, to a hair' (Daniel Deronda, p. 2 1 9). Klesmer stresses the mechanical rather than the emotional elements of performance... | |
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