The Works of Matthew Arnold in Fifteen Volumes, Volume 11AMS Press, 1970 |
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Page 202
... Sarah Bernhardt . I will not quarrel with our newspapers for their unremitting atten- tion to these French performances , their copious criticism of them ; particularly when the criti- cism is so interesting and so good as that which ...
... Sarah Bernhardt . I will not quarrel with our newspapers for their unremitting atten- tion to these French performances , their copious criticism of them ; particularly when the criti- cism is so interesting and so good as that which ...
Page 204
... Sarah Bernhardt with Rachel . One talks vaguely of genius , but I had never till now comprehended how much of Rachel's superiority was purely in intellectual power , how eminently this power counts in the actor's art as in all art , how ...
... Sarah Bernhardt with Rachel . One talks vaguely of genius , but I had never till now comprehended how much of Rachel's superiority was purely in intellectual power , how eminently this power counts in the actor's art as in all art , how ...
Page 217
... Sarah Bernhardt as Phèdre , but I am sure that one feels it in seeing her as Doña Sol . The tragedy of M. Victor Hugo has always , indeed , stirring events in plenty ; and so long as the human nerves are what they are , so long will ...
... Sarah Bernhardt as Phèdre , but I am sure that one feels it in seeing her as Doña Sol . The tragedy of M. Victor Hugo has always , indeed , stirring events in plenty ; and so long as the human nerves are what they are , so long will ...
Contents
THE INCOMPATIBLES I | 1 |
AN UNREGARDED IRISH GRIEVANCE | 79 |
ECCE CONVERTIMUR AD GENTES | 104 |
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