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Page 108
... exciting and mysterious . In the civilized world of the eighteenth century the actors gave life a touch of fantasy . Their disorderly existence was a lure to the imagination in the Age of Reason and the heroic parts they played , the ...
... exciting and mysterious . In the civilized world of the eighteenth century the actors gave life a touch of fantasy . Their disorderly existence was a lure to the imagination in the Age of Reason and the heroic parts they played , the ...
Page 115
... exciting . I began to think that I should never be able to write a piece that a leading lady liked well enough to insist on playing and so tried my hand at á man's play . I wrote Jack Straw . I had been under the impression that the ...
... exciting . I began to think that I should never be able to write a piece that a leading lady liked well enough to insist on playing and so tried my hand at á man's play . I wrote Jack Straw . I had been under the impression that the ...
Page 237
W. SOMER MAUGHAI. vivid , impressive and exciting speaker . I was too young and too ignorant to understand much of what he said , but I got a very clear impression of Schopen- hauer's odd and original personality and a confused feeling ...
W. SOMER MAUGHAI. vivid , impressive and exciting speaker . I was too young and too ignorant to understand much of what he said , but I got a very clear impression of Schopen- hauer's odd and original personality and a confused feeling ...
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