Word: ear
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...uncertain. A better source of aid was open - the internal revenue taxes. Here was a source of revenue, three times that estimated for this law. easily and economically collected, without popular friction or disturbance to trade. Why did Congress neglect it? Because popular clamor dinned its claims in one ear, while Congress turned the other to the gentle suggestions of the beer combine. The law is unjustifiable because of its radical defects. The special deductions allowed open wide the doors of evasion, and this and the high rate of exemption will largely destroy its value as a revenue measure...
...unable to bring out the various music of Shakespeare's verse. His Hamlet was melodramatic, theatric, and moved brilliantly along over the surface of the poet's intention. Often, indeed, Mr. Tree dipped below the surface, but never sounded the depths. His Hamlet appealed to the eye, the ear, the nerves, sometimes to the heart; but seldom convincingly to the understanding, or deeply to the spirit. In general Mr. Tree treated the text with respect and with artistic skill...
...lines, continued the lecturer, no one speaks them in our day as Mr. Booth did. He spoke in verse as if it were his native tongue, and his voice vibrated not only on the ear but on the soul. He was the last idealist in tragedy. Mr. Irving poses as an idealist, but no one can see him in "Louis XI," or "Dubosc," without thinking what a very realistic idealist he must be. Mr. Irving's speaking of the text in Hamlet, as wherever this actor is called upon to utter blank verse, is by turns sing-songy and jirkily...
...privilege that kindled and kept alive the zeal of his acolytes while it was still sectarian or even heretical. but he has that surest safeguard against oblivion, that imperishable incentive to curiosity and interest that belongs to all original minds. His finest utterances do not merely nestle in the ear by virtue of their music, but in the soul and life, by virtue of their meaning. One would be slow to say that his general outfit as poet was so complete as that of Dryden, but that he habitually dwelt in a diviner air, and alone of modern poets renewed...
...future years. Without question much of the present success is due to the uniqueness of the undertaking; every person, no matter what his relations to the Latin language, is interested to see how the Latin stage and its settings are reproduced, how the Latin music is adapted to modern ears, and with how much expression English students can handle lines written for Roman actors. The curiosity is piqued; the eye and ear are delighted. Is there very much besides in the play to recommend it? Would not another play be doomed, by the nature of the case, to fall flat...