The Province of Expression: A Search for Principles Underlying Adequate Methods of Developing Dramatic and Oratoric DeliverySchool of Expression, 1891 - 461 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 75 - Binds it, and makes all error : and, to KNOW, Rather consists in opening out a way Whence the imprisoned splendor may escape, Than in effecting entry for a light Supposed to be without.
الصفحة 90 - Twas on a summer's evening in his tent. That day he overcame the Nervii. Look, in this place ran Cassius
الصفحة 131 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O UNION strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate.
الصفحة 147 - Arcot, he drew from every quarter whatever a savage ferocity could add to his new rudiments in the arts of destruction ; and compounding all the materials of fury, havoc, and desolation, into one black cloud, he hung for a while on the declivities of the mountains.
الصفحة 17 - Why take the artistic way to prove so much? Because, it is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.
الصفحة 158 - cries Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer; "why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure if I had seen a ghost I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did.
الصفحة 165 - Nor conscious that they know, nor craving more ; " While man knows partly but conceives beside, " Creeps ever on from fancies to the fact, " And in this striving, this converting air " Into a solid he may grasp and use, " Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, " Not God's, and not the beasts' : God is, they are, " Man partly is and v.-holly hopes to be.
الصفحة 265 - Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate: For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings, That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
الصفحة 291 - I say that man was made to grow, not stop; That help, he needed once, and needs no more. Having grown but an inch by, is withdrawn : For he hath new needs, and new helps to these. This imports solely, man should mount on each New height in view; the help whereby he mounts, The ladder-rung his foot has left, may fall, Since all things suffer change save God the Truth.
الصفحة 146 - What if we so small Be greater and grander the while than they ? Are they perfect of lineament, perfect of stature ? In both, of such lower types are we Precisely because of our wider nature j For time, theirs — ours, for eternity.