Word: charmingly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...pleased to note the announcement of Mr. Black's readings. A friend of Barrie and Stevenson during his University days, he is sure to charm his hearers in his reminiscences of them...
...preaching or moralizing, but every character is allowed to speak for itself, without preference given or comment made. It is the work of a great artist, to whom life in all its manifold phases strongly appealed, and who was thus able to reproduce it with all the delightful charm of reality...
...still greater abhorrence of the straight line, and the picturesque lies really in the breaking of the straight line. In fact, nature is never picturesque unless she has been used and discarded by man,- she may be sublime as seen in primeval forests, but she lacks just that subtle charm which gives this quality...
...painter, sculptor, musician or actor, must be looked upon with a certain veneration. This veneration is very much increased, too, if the man in question, besides being a great artist, has qualities in his own nature which make him attractive and worthy of respect. Mr. Irving has this double charm of the artist and the true gentleman and this, it seems to us, is exactly the reason why the students are so much interested in him and in his work. He, and the actors and actresses of his class are not the mere machines that people see and even applaud...
...grace itself. Every muscle, every feature was under perfect control, and it was this that enabled him to be his best characters rather than to act them. His beauty was of a manly kind and showed the intellect which lay behind it; but his voice was perhaps his chief charm. He was a model for all speakers of English, and he gave Shakespeare's lines with as little effort as if they were his mother tongue. It is not pessimistic to say that they will never be given so again. All these, however, were qualities of the exterior. He would...