The Play of Life: In Seven ActsGorham, 1917 - 81 pages |
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actor acts being seven battle beauty big manly voice bubble reputation cannon's mouth childish treble creeping like snail delicate drama Dreamland earth eyes severe flower Fourth Age Full of strange Full of wise glory heart infant Jealous in honor lean and slipper'd Life's Longfellow Man's Mewing and puking Minor tones modern instances mystery Nature's Nazarene Nebular Hypothesis nose and pouch nurse's arms oaths and bearded pard perfect petal pipes And whistles play pouch on side quick in quarrel quiet lake radiance radium Rainbow Arch rôle satchel And shining saws and modern SECOND AGE Seeking the bubble seven ages Shakespeare shining morning face shrunk shank Sighing like furnace slipper'd pantaloon snail Unwillingly Spark of Divinity spectacles on nose STAGE SUPERVISOR strange oaths sudden and quick Supporting the Star Tennyson THIRD AGE Truth Unwillingly to school whining school-boy wise saws woeful ballad wonderful world too wide world's a stage youthful hose
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Page 6 - Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw : Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite...
Page 8 - The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, With spectacles on nose and pouch on side, His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank ; and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
Page 7 - One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever.
Page 79 - When Earth's last picture is painted, and the tubes are twisted and dried, When the oldest colors have faded, and the youngest critic has died, We shall rest, and, faith, we shall need it — lie down for an aeon or two, Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall set us to work anew!
Page 49 - And then the whining school-boy with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress
Page 8 - With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances ; And so he plays his part The sixth age shifts Into the lean and...
Page 79 - And only the Master shall praise us, and only the Master shall blame; And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame. But each for the joy of working, and each in his separate star, Shall draw the Thing as he sees it for the God of Things as They Are!
Page 8 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players : They have their exits and their entrances ; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Page 19 - And banish'd into mystery, and the pain Of this divisible-indivisible world Among the numerable-innumerable Sun, sun, and sun, thro...
Page 71 - Immense have been the preparations for me, Faithful and friendly the arms that have help'd me. Cycles ferried my cradle, rowing and rowing like cheerful boatmen, For room to me stars kept aside in their own rings, They sent influences to look after what was to hold me.