The Theatre--advancingLittle, Brown,, 1919 - 298 páginas |
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Página 61 - By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand, and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive.
Página 292 - I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago, Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.
Página 277 - Rumble thy bellyful! Spit, fire! spout, rain! Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire, are my daughters! I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness; I never gave you kingdom, called you children, You owe me no subscription ; then let fall Your horrible pleasure; here I stand, your slave, A poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man.
Página 277 - Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks ! rage ! blow ! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drench'd our steeples, drown'd the cocks ! You sulphurous and thought-executing fires, Vaunt-couriers of oak-cleaving thunderbolts, Singe my white head ! And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world ! Crack nature's moulds, all germens spill at once That make ingrateful man ! 9 Fool.
Página 277 - Spit, fire! spout, rain! Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire, are my daughters: I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness; I never gave you kingdom, call'd you children, You owe me no subscription: then, let fall Your horrible pleasure; here I stand, your slave, A poor, infirm, weak, and despis'd old man. But yet I call you servile ministers, That have with two pernicious daughters join'd Your high-engender'd battles 'gainst a head So old and white as this.
Página 62 - For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at. any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
Página 101 - ... Je leur sais un gré infini de remplacer les acteurs vivants. S'il faut dire toute ma pensée, les acteurs me gâtent la comédie. J'entends les bons acteurs. Je m'accommoderais encore des autres ! mais ce sont les artistes excellents, comme il s'en trouve à la Comédie-Française, que décidément je ne puis souffrir. Leur talent est trop grand : il couvre tout. Il n'ya qu'eux. Leur personne efface l'œuvre qu'ils représentent.
Página 96 - What the wires of the Uber-marionette shall be, what shall guide him, who can say? I do not believe in the mechanical, nor in the material. The wires which stretch from divinity to the soul of the poet are wires which might command him.
Página 132 - The Most High has deigned to do honour to mankind; he has endowed man with boundless passions, together with a law to guide them, so that man may be alike free and self-controlled; though swayed by these passions man is endowed with reason by which to control them.
Página 17 - ... and theories than think man unable to rise to any standard known or to be known. And so I accept this information, new though it be to me, and will present it here as a possibility; I will hope for it, even with my eyes and ears amazed at what they see and hear coming from the Western actors.