Word: passionately
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...been said that actors trust to the inspiration of the moment; nothing could be more untrue. Edmund Kean practised before a mirror and startled the audience by his spontaneity; even Shakspere would have been surprised by the richness and fullness of this actor's passion. The best exposition of acting is given by Shakspere himself, and thus the poet recognizes the actor's art. The great poet believed in holding the mirror up to nature, and it is to him that the actor points for the charter of his profession...
...wrong and of the sanctity of suffering: we feel the weight of the mysteries of this life, and we are made ready for high thoughts. For the office of the Gothic drama is not to give us merely the chiseled image of some heroic man agitated by one mighty passion, but rather to display the forces that are struggling in all men; to overawe us with the ghost of our own past and our own future, so that we may truly say: The world is passing in review...
...play with them: it was 'Othello.' I sat close behind her and at the most affecting scenes I pressed my had upon her waist: she was in tears and rather leaned to me. The jealous Moor described my very soul." The idea of Boswell torn by an Othello-like passion is certainly a striking one. The next day he popped the question, "after sqeezing and kissing her fine hand, while she looked at me with those beautiful black eyes," but, alas, he was refused. His disappointment was very bitter, and in the tumult of his soul, he wrote the following...
...night, I admire the charming Mary Anne. Upon my honor I was never so much in love; I never was before in a situation to which there was not some objection, but here every flower is united, and not a thorn to be found. This is the most agreeable passion I ever felt: sixteen, innocence and gaiety make me quite a Sicilian swain. I have given up my criminal intimacy with the Edinburg women; in short, Maria has me without a rival." This would seem like a most satisfactory condition of affairs, but the fickle heart of Boswell could never...
...wife "shockingly ill," and therefore, she is freed from her vows. But unfortunately, true love never runs smooth, even with another man's wife, and Boswell soon had a tiff with his mistress. Their reconciliation he describes as follows: "I held her dear hand; her eyes were full of passion; I took her in my arms; I told her what made me miserable; she was pleased to find it was no worse. We renewed our fondness." Supporting somebody else's wife, however, was expensive-it looked "too much like licentiousness," Boswell complained, and growing tired of her, his conscience began...