Word: successes
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...beauty and grace of person, the purity and loftiness of bearing, which Miss Ethel so easily gives to it. Although unequal to the passages of tragic emotion, these are so few that the lady's weakness in those parts leaves but little impression on the mind. Her greatest success is achieved in the first scene with her husband, where she shows him the drawings, and in the fourth act, where she endeavors to recall his truant love. In these scenes her light-comedy powers have full scope, and we recognize them to be of high order. Her support was very...
...what we need at Harvard is a deeper appreciation of the fact that college is but a preparatory school, after all; that before very long we shall be placed in a position where earnestness is almost indispensable to success, and indifference a thing to be fought against, instead of cherished. This estimate of the value of earnestness is not exactly new; it certainly must have occurred to Noah when he set about building the ark, - to say nothing of Adam or the pre-Adamite, - and it has been handed down to us in a great many old adages, which...
...some time been the attraction at this theatre, is a comedy deserving of great praise for simplicity of plot, grace of language, and especially for the naturalness and effect with which all its situations and stage-business have been arranged. To these latter merits, we think, it owes its success; for there is but one character of importance in the piece, - that of Lord Chilton. This part was assumed by Mr. Barron, and we regard it as one of the best efforts ever made by that gentleman in comedy. Although forced, from the necessities of the part, to imitate...
...conclude, the low price at which the Magenta is offered necessitates a large subscription-list. Let our friends remember this if they would see an enterprise flourish whose success will be, we do not say an honor, but a convenience...