Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 31, 2025
"Do you mean it's going to let you take Casa Grande off her ladyship's hands?" I diffidently inquired. "That's already arranged for," Dinky-Dunk quite casually informed me. We were a couple of play-actors, I felt, each deep in a rôle of his own, each stirred much deeper than he was ready to admit, and each a little afraid of the other.
Do men and women there continually scheme and flirt, smile and stab, forever assuming parts like so many play-actors?" "It is far too common," he admitted, touched by her naive questioning.
I feel as if we were a regular company of play-actors now." "Won't you give them a blow-up first, father?" "No, Benjy, no. Never put your best foot foremost. The proverb is a false one as many proverbs are. We will dynamite them afterwards, and electrify them last of all. Go, look sharp."
With such a lineage he might have done better, people said, than to marry that girl, who was the most fickle creature and no housekeeper, and whose people this they told one another in reserved voices were PLAY-ACTORS! Athalia's mother, who had been the "play-actor," had left her children an example of duty domestic as well as professional duty faithfully done.
"What's a tournament?" says Tug, and so said his mamma when she heard the news; and when she knew what a tournament was, I think, really, she WAS as angry as MacTurk said she would be, and gave us no peace for days together. "What!" says she, "dress up in armor, like play-actors, and run at each other with spears? The Kilblazes must be mad!"
The inevitable discrepancy between the literary representations of life and life itself has been the cause of the ancient feud between teachers of morals and writers of fiction. Because of this Plato would banish poets from his Republic and the Puritans would exclude novelists and play-actors from their conventicles.
So says Palladius, and goes on to tell how Serapion sold himself to certain play-actors for twenty gold pieces, and laboured for them as a slave till he had won them to Christ, and made them renounce the theatre; after which he made his converts give the money to the poor, and went his way.
The truth is that Tolstoy, a wonderful artist in plastic portraiture, consciously or unconsciously fashioned the Tolstoy legend, as did Richard Wagner the Wagner legend, Victor Hugo the Hugo legend. Men of genius and imagination are nearly all play-actors in matters autobiographical.
These players are not to be confounded with the play-actors whom the Puritans denounced, nor with those trained to the profession in the French capital. In the United States and in England we are born to enter upon any avocation, thank Heaven! without training for it.
Ede could rate play-actors for a good half-hour without feeling the time passing, and taking her mother-in-law's hands in hers, she looked earnestly in her face, saying: 'You know, mother, I have a hard time of it, and I try to bear up as well as I can. You're the only one I've to help me; don't turn against me.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking