Have we not been in error in demanding from our playwrights personages who do not transcend our common actions any more than our common speech?
It is possible that some true history may be hidden underneath its sagas, that some of its personages may be historical, but we cannot tell.
The second cycle is linked to the first, not by history or race, but by the fact that the great personages in the first have now become the gods who intervene in the affairs of the wars and heroes of the second.
No personages of the first save these of the gods appear in the Heroic cycle, none of the Heroic cycle appears in the Fenian cycle.
Otto was NOT drowned, and all those personages of our history are consequently alive and well.
Thus I would desire that the biographies of many of our most illustrious personages of romance should be continued by fitting hands, and that they should be heard of, until at least a decent age.
Emperor, at which the Dowager Empress, the Grand Duke and Duchess of Baden, the Crown Prince and Princess of Sweden, and other Royal personages were present.
But," he added, "I have reason to know that many honourable personages were to be met with there, and even the King Himself was there.
The sevenpersonages in the middle register are all alike.
Several personages of antiquity were thus favored; there was, notably Cleopatra, according to a papyrus found at Boulaq, and quoted by M.
Talloire, the bank's own agent, that of the marquis and of a quantity of other personages and respectable houses.
The personages and the atmosphere and the palaces and homes of all that Paris meant to her were gone into thin air--a sad memory.
But he did not see why the gallant and noble people of France were to be insulted by the feelings of sympathy which Her Majesty and some other personages were exhibiting towards the exiled tyrant (Hear.
While we have been thus digressing, the sensation amongst the crowds in Pall Mall has increased;--for the carriages of several eminent or illustrious personages have passed along in their way to the royal levee.
In addition to these personages and the Earl of Ellingham, Mr. Hatfield, and Lady Georgiana there were Sir John Lascelles, Clarence Villiers and Adelais, and the select few who had been invited to the banquet on this occasion.
Oxford, 1823) retails a good deal of unsavoury gossip concerning the disease in noble and princely personages after the Restoration.
They had also as instructors many personages of the old court, who had been struck out of the list of emigres by the kindness of the Emperor, and now solicited earnestly for themselves and their wives employment in the new imperial court.
That on the side next the city was styled the imperial tribune, and intended for foreign princes, while the diplomatic corps and foreign personagesof distinction filled the other pavilion.
In the case of royal personages there is a uræus in front.
The majority of these gems were mounted as rings or as seals of secular and ecclesiasticalpersonages of rank.
And this is not hard to do," he added, "and can never embarrass a Minister where such straightforward loyal personages as the Queen and the Prince are concerned.
Not only were its central personages the patterns of propriety, but no breath of scandal, no shadow of indecorum, might approach its utmost boundaries.
When these high personages were forced to assume responsibility for international relations, they were not only unversed in foreign affairs but untrained to any kind of business.
The excuse put forward in palliation of an anti-crusade headed by the highest personages in the empire bears an interesting family resemblance to the apology usually made for rebels.
There are arguments between personages on whether to do this or that; whether to understand an event in one way or in another; or as to what is going to happen later.
The heroes or personages are preponderantly boys, sometimes even miraculously precocious babies.
Some of the amusements and pleasures which Antony and Cleopatra pursued were innocent in themselves, though wholly unworthy to be made the serious business of life by personages on whom such exalted duties rightfully devolved.
Such exalted personages as Antony seem to be judged by a different standard from common men.
In selecting the subjects for the successive volumes of this series, it has been the object of the author to look for the names of those great personages whose histories constitute useful, and not merely entertaining, knowledge.
Francesco Sansovino, who edited the Ameto in 1545, discovered real personages underlying the characters of the romance.
This brings us to the second alternative mentioned above, to meet which we shall have to condescend to particulars, and consider the real natures of the various groups of personages with which Jonson crowds his stage.
It must, however, be observed that the personages in this pastoral are in part not shepherds at all, but Robin Hood and his merry men.
Let it be added that Aurelian and Aridius are real personages who are met with elsewhere in history, and whose parts as played on the occasion of Clotilde's marriage are in harmony with the other traces that remain of their lives.
In order to attain the end I had set before me, I always took care to connect my stories or my reflections with the great events or the great personages of history.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "personages" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
