Word: passioned
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Madame Janauschek has the complete equipment of genius on the stage; that is to say, not only the utmost skill of her art, but the more divine gift of quickly stirring her hearers with the passion of the scene. Notwithstanding her achievements as Brunnhilda, as Medea, as Lady Macbeth, and as Queen Katharine; probably her most memorable contribution to the history of the stage is the double character of Lady Deadlock and the French maid Hortense in the adaptation of Dickens's Bleak House...
...poetry alone that the new life of Italy found expression, but in architecture, sculpture and painting. Into all of these the awakened soul of Italy breathed new life. Of this century in Italy with its love for beauty and its longing for peace, its passion and its cruelty, Dante is the chief figure and his works the chief expression...
...front, she commands our attention, holding us transfixed while present and claiming our thoughts while absent. She is no longer the degraded wife, worthy only of loathing, she struggles against her fate, is vanquished, but not without making the most heroic efforts to overcome the poison of her passion. Before we finish the play she has not only succeeded in interesting us, but she has won our pity and sympathy; nothing could be a greater tribute to the genius of Racine than this acknowledgment which every reader of the play must make...
...best of her books, of which the most delightful perhaps were her latest works: "Mansfield Park," "Emma," "Persuasion." One goes to Jane Austen for humor, and not for pathos. Her novels are no more real than Miss Wilkens's "Pembroke," which is an extraordinary work, full of passion and power throughout. The descriptions of New England funerals which are to be found several times in the stories of Mary Wilkens are masterpieces of their kind. Another feature of her writings is that sad New England love, which finds it easier to renounce than to possess. Iron strength of will...
...attributable partly to the fact that he did not write of women or for women. Although women appear in his stories, it was not until "David Balfour" that he introduces a woman who interests us. To be a really great novelist, a writer must deal with more or less passionate love. Stevenson never introduced strong passion into his stories. In "David Balfour" he made a woman the leading character, but there is no strong, passion in the book...