The Quarterly Journal of Speech Education: The Official Organ of the National Association of Teachers of Speech, Volume 11G. Banta, 1925 |
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Page 145 - Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining...
Page 235 - The front of the stage is opened, and the band of twentyfour violins, with the harpsicals and theorbos which accompany the voices, are placed between the pit and the stage. While the overture is playing, the curtain rises, and discovers a new frontispiece, joined to the great pilasters, on each side of the stage. This frontispiece is a noble arch, supported by large wreathed columns of the Corinthian order ; the wreathings of the columns are beautified with roses wound round them, and several Cupids...
Page 249 - I'll tell you — now I'll tell you — you bad, quick-tempered, rough, unhappy, wicked — dear boy — sleep peacefully, Liliom — they can't understand how I feel — I can't even explain to you — not even to you — how I feel — you'd only laugh at me — but you can't hear me any more. [Between tender...
Page 146 - I can never forget the delight with which that diffusive and ingenious orator, Mr. Burke, was heard by all sides of the house, and even by those whose existence he proscribed.
Page 128 - ... finest of the fine arts. A mongrel something which, at least with the inferior adepts, is neither good reading nor yet veritable acting, but which sets agape the half-educated with the wonder of its airs and attitudinising, its pseudo-heroics and pseudo-pathos, has usurped the place of the true art of reading aloud, and has made the word " recitation" a terror to quiet folk who are content with intelligence and refinement.
Page 38 - Pre-Raphaelitism has but one principle, that of absolute uncompromising truth in all that it does, obtained by working everything, down to the most minute detail, from nature, and from nature only.* Every Pre-Raphaelite landscape background is painted to the last touch, in the open air, from the thing itself.
Page 130 - Address, man, Address. The maiden in danger Was saved by the swain ; His stout arm restored her To Broadway again. The maid would reward him, — Gay company come, — They laugh, she laughs with them, He is moonstruck and dumb. This...
Page 213 - My answer is this : I respect no study, and deem no study good, which results in money-making. Such studies are profitbringing occupations, useful only in so far as they give the mind a preparation and do not engage it permanently. One should linger upon them only so long as the mind can occupy itself with nothing greater ; they are our apprenticeship, not our real work. Hence you see why " liberal studies " are so called ; it is because they are studies worthy of a free-born gentleman.
Page 149 - ... he is everywhere conscious of the mastery of laws, institutions, and government over the character and happiness of men. Besides thus diffusing a strong light over the awful tides of human circumstance, Burke has the sacred gift of inspiring men to use a grave diligence in caring for high things, and in making their lives at once rich and austere.
Page 235 - This tempest (supposed to be raised by magick) has many dreadful objects in it, as several spirits in horrid shapes flying down amongst the sailors, then rising and crossing in the air. And when the ship is sinking, the whole house is darkened, and a shower of fire falls upon them. This is accompanied with lightning, and several claps of thunder, to the end of the storm.