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... hand, the want of the living tones, swift looks and motions, and manifold dramatic accompaniments, tells heavily, more heavily than common. What can ... ...e full depth and har- mony of creative song. Curious, by the way, how that Dramatic Form of the old Greek, with only some superfi- cial changes, remai... ...ish, and the Epic barbarous, compared to this. But of the true and perfect Drama it may be said, as of even higher mysteries, Who is sufficient for th... ...e good brave soul, with the deliberate report that I could not accept this Drama as his Picture of the Life of Strafford, or as any Picture of that st...

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...boards; lis- tens, with that black bushy head, to the sound of the world’s drama: shall the Mimetic become Real? Did ye hiss him, O men of Lyons? (Buz... ...en, as was said, Pit jumps on Stage, then is it verily, as in Herr Tieck’s Drama, a Verkehrte Welt, of World Topsyturvied! Having seen the Human Speci... ...oard simulacrum of that ‘Federation of the French People, ’ brought out as Drama: this of Nanci, we may say, though not played in any pasteboard Theat... ...wn, and written; of Eulogies, Reminiscences, Biographies, nay Vaudevilles, Dramas and Melodramas, in all Provinces of France, there will, through thes... ...e rebellows with Vivent les trois peuples libres! from all throats:—a most dramatic scene. Demoiselle Theroigne recites, from that Tribune in mid air,...

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...ible lessons twice over than learn such rot, and this carried the day. The drama proposed was that one in an old number of ‘ Aunt Judy,’ where the vil...

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...s upon the theme of business displaced it. Just before the fall, the whole drama of the un- folding of that secret was brilliant to his eyes as a scen... ... us, fret us, nevertheless. Dartrey free, he was relieved of the murderous drama in- 30 One of Our Conquerors cessantly in the mind of shackled men. ... ...CHAPTER V THE LONDON WALK WESTWARD IN THAT NATIONALLY interesting Poem, or Dramatic Satire, once famous, The Rajah in London (London, Limbo and Sons, ... ...was a cascade of mus- lin downstairs. His darling Fredi stood out of it, a dramatic Undine. CHAPTER VI NATALY ‘IL SEGRETO!’ the girl cried commandingl... ... trio. You have only to look on them, you chatter out your three Acts of a Drama without a stop. If Mrs. Barman cares to practise charity, she has onl... ...he had not a notion of: otherwise he would not be delaying; the interview, dramatized by the father of the young bud of womanhood, would be taking pla... ...IMES in the hearts of all men of active life a vivid wild moment or two of dramatic dialogue between the vet- eran antagonists, Nature and Circumstanc... ...itten, might have sent me a gentleman, pri- vately. No: it must be done in dramatic style-for effect: her confidential—lawyer?—doctor?—butler! Perhaps... ... of his phrases, for the failure to prick and goad, and work amendment. He dramatized to Nataly some of the scene going on at the Wells: Victor’s peti...

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...artily repentant. He showed it in the best manner, 47 George Meredith not dramatically. On her accepting his offer to drive her down to the valley to... ...o the station, whether she had an enemy: so prone are men, educated by the Drama and Fiction in the belief that the garden of civi- lized life must be... ... encountered in the passage was Diana’s maid Danvers, who relaxed from the dramatic exaggeration of her surprise at the sight of a real English gentle... ... she was, it whelmed her. And then her comic imagination pictured Redworth dramatically making love. And to a widow! It proved him to be senseless of ...

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...er hand, Pathfinder kept in view the useful, utterly disregarding the mere dramatic part of war- fare. The moment he beheld his friend Jasper, he call...

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...mained as stoical as ever. He hardly even shrugged his shoulders; all this drama appeared to him in bad taste. Without doubt he did not believe that t...

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...archaeological value which it must always possess for the student, and the dramatic interest of its stories, the translator has thought that an Englis...

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... energetic advocacy of Christian Science. Mrs. Fisher was small, fiery and dramatic; and her hands and eyes were admirable instruments in the service ... ...llusions and anticipations. Lily was acutely aware of her own part in this drama of innuendo: she knew the exact quality of the amuse- ment the situat... ...going over her furs, a process which formed the culminating episode in the drama of household renovation. In the evening also Lily found herself alone... ...by the relation of her friend’s philanthropic efforts, but today her quick dramatizing fancy seized on the contrast between her own situ- ation and th... ...ge of anger. Miss Stepney was not suffi- ciently familiar with the classic drama to have recalled in ad- vance how bearers of bad tidings are proverbi... ...draperies, the study of attitudes, the shifting of lights and shadows. Her dramatic instinct was roused by the choice of subjects, and the gorgeous re... ...ng. Her visit to the Girls’ Club had first brought her in contact with the dramatic contrasts of life. She had always accepted with philo- sophic calm... ... ostentatiously about the tables; and the discovery that this actor in the drama was not only hovering in the wings, but actually inviting the exposur... ...sets, the Stepneys, the Brys—all the actors and witnesses in the miserable drama— had preceded her with their version of the case; and, even had she s...

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...sually rich, solemn and profound. This was the comic relief of an absurdly dramatic situation. While hauling him out I permitted myself to laugh aloud... ...or himself and me. A dull affair this. All such cases were dull. No really dramatic moments. The book-keeping of The Orb and all the rest of them was ... ...on, engaged in wrestling with a wild-eyed, white- faced girl had a certain dramatic fascination. “Really!” I murmured. “Oh! There’s no doubt that she ... ...y were indulged in privately in several thousand homes, where, with a fine dramatic effect, hunger had taken the place of Thrift. But there was one at...