I have since the acting of this play harkened after the objections which have been made to it, for I was conscious where a true critic might have put me upon my defence.
For the rest The Old Bachelor, though to us in these days its plot appear a somewhat uninspiring piece of fairyland, was a good acting play, fitted with great skill to its actual players.
C] The Prince of Taranto, while speaking and acting like a cannibal, was following the inspiration of an atrocious policy.
But that does not prevent," insisted Simon the monk, "that if you rely upon the Duke of Aquitaine for redress against the seigneur of Plouernel, you will be actinglike a lunatic.
The suggestionacting on the child's mind must be altered, and self-confidence restored.
From this constantly actingirritation the child needs security.
The force of suggestion acting upon the child's mind can clearly be traced.
A museum not far off,” stammered the marquis taking his wife’s hint and acting upon it to the best of his intelligence, for with all his faults he was devoted to his daughter.
Acting on a generous impulse, and being desirous of fulfilling the promise he had made to his wife, Leon Roch set out for Madrid and went to the church of St. Prudencio in search of Father Paoletti.
These sand dunes are supposed by some to be caused by a peculiar meteorological phenomena of currents and counter-currents acting vertically instead of horizontally.
Acting upon this plan I went over to Troy the following afternoon by way of Albany.
The matter was hotly contested but the metropolis won the prize, acting Governor Cummings designating Omaha as the favored spot.
Thomas Babcock, who had been acting as an assistant to my advance agents, accompanied me as far as Geddes, and arranged to co-operate with my brother and Mr. Farrington in preparation for my lecture.
I advise you to cease acting the part of a bully, or you may get another similar lesson.
Woodd, Mr. Dodd againacting as boatswain and Mr. Brooks at his old post.
Here follow a few of the things which it is well to remember when boat-sailing, whether you are acting as captain or crew, or both in one.
The mouth of the tube is trumpet-shaped, and at the entrance a number of pigmy bees are always stationed, apparently acting as the sentinels.
Once a year the Indians, with whom masked dances and acting are indigenous, had their turn, and on one occasion they gave us a great treat.
Some of them, however, who have learned to read and write, and whose dislike to live in towns has been overcome by some cause acting early in life, make very good citizens.
They felled it, and shaped out of the trunk a log nineteen feet in length; this they dragged from the forest, with the help of my host's men, over a road they had previously made with cylindrical pieces of wood acting as rollers.
On the Amazons, where these birds are very common, no one pretends ever to have seen a Toucan walking on the ground in its natural state, much less acting the part of a swimming or wading bird.
The landlord was consulted as to the acting magistrates of the time, and gave two or three addresses.
Thus, you see, I was acting in the strictest obedience.
He bowed, and answered that he was acting by the desire of his guardian.
Irving's acting in The Admirable Crichton, but it was a triumph for the actor rather than the playwright.
In 1899 he falls foul of Sir John Gorst, then the acting head of the Board of Education, for his alleged intention of entrusting the teaching of all other children to half-educated pupil teachers.
But the sting of the satire is in the last paragraph:-- In criticizing the acting of a play, you should be guided wholly by the status of the actors.
Acting on Chitterlow's advice to have a bit of a freshener before returning to the Emporium, Kipps walked some way along the Leas and back and then went down to a shop near the Harbour to get a cup of coffee.
Such are its powers and capacities when acting as a cruiser proper.
It is the country's fault if a man capable of so acting is placed in supreme command, and for that there is no remedy.
He rose, and walked quietly in with the slow careful acting of one who knows that his every action is watched, and, wondering at his friend's change, the doctor rose and followed.
The Hidatsas have a story of this bird that it was onceacting as a spy in enemy country.
He now began to think that the animal was acting in this manner under the influence of some unseen power for some mysterious purpose, and that he, as well as the buffalo, was controlled by the same influence.
Although acting as master of ceremonies, Ramon was not painted or decorated in any way.
According to this view, the eclipse-halo consists of streams of matter shot out with great velocity from the spot-zones by forces acting perpendicularly to the sun's surface.
They seemed to float at an altitude of at least twenty miles, or about four times the height of terrestrial cirrus; but this was not wonderful, considering the low power of gravity acting upon them.
He showed the beautiful and symmetrical revolutions of the solar system to be governed by a uniformly acting cause, and that cause no other than the familiar force of gravity, which gives stability to all our terrestrial surroundings.
Acting on his suggestion, Brandes and Benzenberg, two students at the University of Göttingen, began in 1798 to determine the heights of falling stars by simultaneous observations at a distance.
The sealing-master must have a strong motive for acting in this way.
Mr. Crawford desired that might not be thought of; he was very sure his sister had no wish of acting but as she might be useful, and that she would not allow herself to be considered in the present case.
The four silent actors in this scene looked at each other with mysterious sympathy; their souls, acting one upon another, communicated to each the feelings of all, blending them into the one emotion of religious pity.
The play 'De Montfort' was presented at Drury Lane Theatre in 1800; but in spite of every effort and the acting of John Kemble and Mrs. Siddons, it had a run of but eleven nights.
There was never in this world a stage on which mere acting was more skillfully carried out than in all England under Cromwell, or in Philadelphia under the Quakers.
I have seen Rachel and Ristori many a time, but their best acting was shallow compared to Janauschek's, as I have seen it in by-gone years, when she played Iphigenia and Medea in German.
They are cut again, in the next room to which they are carried, by a revolving cylinder whose surface is covered with short, sharp knives, acting on each other much like the blades of scissors.
Bellombre was instructing him in various minor details as the play went on, and for a novice he did wonderfully well--acting with much spirit and grace, showing decided talent, and remarkable aptitude.
If it is poor your acting will make it excellent, if it is fine you will make it peerless.
There was certainly something suspicious about the fierce way in which she eyed Isabelle's pearl necklace, and her little bit of clever acting afterwards.
You will permit me to applaud you I suppose, and truth to tell I shall be very glad to enjoy your bewitching acting again.
The baron gratefully accepted the veteran actor's advice, and played his part after the fashion indicated by him with so much spirit that all present applauded his acting enthusiastically, and prophesied its success.
In the world he was believed to be dead, but his splendid acting was often quoted by his former admirers--who were wont to declare that there had been nothing to equal it seen on the stage since he had made his last bow to the public.
Mercer, for instance, should have held a petty clerical job of some kind in a city, and here he was acting as nurse in the heart of a wilderness!
He was actingin the full health of his mind and in extreme cognizance of the paralyzing shock he was contributing as a final legacy to the world at large, or at least to that part of it which knew him or was interested.
That Kedsty is acting on your confession in a big hurry.
This declaration drew from Polignac the admission that he considered the reduction of the colonies by Spain as hopeless and that France "abjured in any case, any design of acting against the colonies by force of arms.
There had been a dreadful scene when the Duchess had been told that her daughter was acting on the same committee as Mrs. Bronson, the dazzling American .
She just sits there and acts--That's what it's always been, acting the whole time.
