Word: accented
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Warren Cram, as M. Jourdain, carries through a difficult part with considerable ability. His accent, too, is good, though not as perfect as some of the others. H. W. Welch, however, who takes the part of his wife is not so strong and his accent is rather rough. Lucille, too, whose part is taken by J. W. Frothingham '99, is a little awkward in her movements. On the other hand, E. L. Dudley, as Nicole, the servant, is very good indeed, her laughter when she first comes on being absolutely contagious. R. L. Hoguet, who takes the part of both...
...above the standard usually set by an amateur cast. In particular the way in which Schurz played the role of Argan was noteworthy. In many places his acting was worthy of a high place upon the professional stage, and his reading of the French lines was almost perfect in accent...
...Shepard St.FRENCH LESSONS. - Private instruction given by Miss Marie Mathhilde Masse, in true Parisian accent. Berlitz school. Terms low to beginners. Address...
...late that to have had the philosopher's stone availed nothing without the philosopher to use it. Many a scholarly life, stretched like a talking wire to bring the wisdom of antiquity into communion with the present, can at last yield us no better news than the true accent of a Greek verse, or the translation of some filthy nothing scrawled on the walls of a brothel by some Pompeian idler. And it is certainly true that the material of thought reacts upon thought itself. Shakespeare himself would have been commonplace had he been paddocked in a thinly shaven vocabulary...
...craft is to present appearances other than his own, and to do things which all men may recognize as not impossible typically. In this study we can not help arriving at some high opinion of the worth and value of identity. The voice, face, manner, bearing, and accent of others are all easy of imitation; but it is when the higher qualities belonging to an individuality have to be reproduced that the imitator's difficulty begins and his weakness is exposed. With the true artist the internal force is the first requisite,- the external appearance being merely the medium through...