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"Truly, Miss Rothesay, you seem to know all about it," said Michael Vanbrugh, when, in great pride and delight, she was helping him to arrange her mother's pose, and at last became herself absorbed in admiration of "Alcestis." "You might have been an artist's daughter or sister." "I wish I had been." "My daughter is somewhat of an artist herself, Mr. Vanbrugh," observed Mrs.
The list of plays presented includes, She Stoops to Conquer, ; The Knight of the Burning Pestle, ; Cranford, ; Euripides' Alcestis, , in which the classical entrance to Alumni Memorial Hall was used most effectively; Prunella, ; The Piper, ; and in 1919, Percy McKaye's A Thousand Years Ago.
It is this rare union that gives such voluptuous dignity and touching purity to Milton's delineation of the female character: Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me like Alcestis from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Rescued from death by force, though pale and faint.
Alcestis was the wife of Admetus, King of Pherae, who, according to the legend, was assured that his life might be prolonged, provided father, mother, or wife would die in his stead.
They cannot in the course of nature live much longer, and who can feel like them the call to rescue the life they gave from an untimely end?" But the parents, distressed though they were at the thought of losing him, shrunk from the call. Then Alcestis, with a generous self- devotion, proffered herself as the substitute.
He went and lay in wait at the door of the chamber of the dying queen, and when Death came for his prey, he seized him and forced him to resign his victim. Alcestis recovered, and was restored to her husband. Milton alludes to the story of Alcestis in his Sonnet "on his deceased wife:"
If he had vanished this winter time, every one would have been convinced that the press-gang had seized upon him. Philip had never heard any one breathe the dreaded name of the Alcestis. Besides, he went on to think, at the farm they are out of hearing of this one great weary subject of talk. But it was not so, as he became convinced one evening.
Stephen had seen Alcestis slip, and in the fraction of a moment had taken off his boots and was coasting down the slippery rocks behind him in a twinkling he was in the water, almost as soon as the boy himself. "Doggoned idjut!" exclaimed Old Kennebec, tearfully. "Wuth the hull fool family!
This gentleman was a clergyman, a profound Grecian, and a poor man. He had edited the Alcestis, and married his laundress; lost money by his edition, and his fellowship by his match. In a few days the hall of Mr.
Then, watching over her, he knew that not he but Alcestis would go with Death. And the words he had spoken he would have taken back the words that had brought her consent to go with Death in his place. Paler and weaker Alcestis grew. Death would soon be here for her. No, not here, for he would not have Death come into the palace. He lifted Alcestis from the bed and he carried her from the palace.
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