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From a certain point of view the sight of the august senators of a great Power rushing to New York and beginning to bully and badger the luckless "Yamsi" on the very quay-side so to speak seems to furnish the Shakespearian touch of the comic to the real tragedy of the fatuous drowning of all these people who to the last moment put their trust in mere bigness, in the reckless affirmations of commercial men and mere technicians and in the irresponsible paragraphs of the newspapers booming these ships!
The trestle tables were carried to one end to form the gallery, rows of chairs represented the dress circle, and cushions in front either the pit or the stalls, according to individual taste, or, as Mrs. Best said, the behavior of the occupants. There was no curtain, but, as the scenery preserved Shakespearian methods of simplicity, that did not matter.
"What do you mean by becoming a Shakespearian star without consulting me first!" demanded David, with mock severity, although there was a rather wistful look in his eyes as they looked into Anne's. David preferred to keep Anne the little High School girl he had known for the past three years. Theatrical stars were somewhat out of his firmament. "Don't worry," Anne assured him.
But there was nothing in which he was so thoroughly Elizabethan, and even Shakespearian, as in this fact, that when he felt inclined to write a page of quite uninteresting nonsense, he immediately did so.
As she concluded, Phoebe leaned forward and watched her companion's face earnestly, hoping that he would betray his hidden interest in this Shakespearian problem by some look or sign. The face into which she gazed was grave and judicial and the reply was a ready one. "Assuredly not! Such a bond were contrary to public policy and void ab initio.
This is a very good and fair criticism of my work when I was appearing in Shakespearian drama a very fair notice, ahem!" and Mr. DeVere leaned back in his chair, a gratified smile on his face. "A fair notice! I should say it was!" laughed Alice. "It does nothing but praise you, and says the others offered you miserable support." "Well, it was fair to me," said Mr. DeVere.
"I would go right off to-night were it not for Win," he muttered, tossing restlessly on his pillows; "but I guess she would fret sorely, and 'there's the rub." Another Shakespearian quotation.
'You are a Shakespearian? he said eagerly. 'I am so glad. I am an old-fashioned person, and I love Shakespeare; that is only another reason why 'Go on, Captain Sarrasin. 'Why I want to go along with you. 'But do you want to go along with me, and where? 'To Gloria, of course. You have not asked me why I refused to give my services to Orizaba.
Making allowance for the different art medium that the singing actor must work in, and despite the larger curves of operatic pose and gesture, Maurel kept astonishingly near to the characters he assumed. He was Shakespearian; his Falstaff was the most wonderful I ever saw."
The value to literature of a pure Shakespearian text, has inspired the zeal of the detectives who work on this ground. Some casual detections have occurred in minor literature, as, for instance, when Akenside's description of the Pantheon, which had been printed as "serenely great," was restored to "severely great."
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