 I have grown to believe that he, motionless as he is, does yet live in reality a deeper, more human and more universal life than the lover who strangles his mistress, the captain who conquers in battle, or 'the husband...  Essays on Modern Dramatists - Pàgina 207per William Lyon Phelps - 1921 - 278 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | William Archer - 1898 - 496 pàgines
...to imagine that it is at the moment when passion possesses us that we live our truest lives? . . . An old man seated in his arm-chair, waiting patiently,...unconscious ear to all the eternal laws that reign about the house . . . submitting with bent head to the presence of his soul and his destiny . . . does yet... | |
 | William Archer - 1898 - 500 pàgines
...to imagine that it is at the moment when passion possesses us that we live our truest lives? . . . An old man seated in his arm-chair, waiting patiently,...unconscious ear to all the eternal laws that reign about the house . . . submitting with bent head to the presence of his soul and his destiny . . . does yet... | |
 | James Huneker - 1905 - 448 pàgines
...the moment when this passion, or others of equal violence, possess us that we live our truest lives ? I have grown to believe that an old man, seated in...unconscious ear to all the eternal laws that reign about the house, interpreting, without comprehending, the silence of doors and windows and the quivering... | |
 | Charles Edward Montague - 1911 - 322 pàgines
...well-known passage from his " Tresor des Humbles " : " I have come to believe that an old man sitting in his arm-chair, waiting patiently with his lamp...eternal laws that reign about his house, interpreting, 133 without comprehending, the silence of doors and windows and the quivering voice of the light, submitting... | |
 | James Slevin - 1912 - 108 pàgines
...about naturally and with good cause. It may be as Maeterlinck says in his "The Tragic in Daily Life," that an old man seated in his armchair, waiting patiently, with his lamp beside him, submitting with bent head to the presence of his soul and his destiny; motionless as he is, does yet... | |
 | Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn, Dorothy Canfield Fisher - 1916 - 168 pàgines
...all that they can say. — Clough. A ship-wrecked sailor, buried on this coast, Bids you set sail! I have grown to believe that an old man seated in...to all the eternal laws that reign about his house, submitting with bent head to the presence of his soul and his destiny; — I have grown to believe... | |
 | Thomas Ernest Rankin - 1917 - 300 pàgines
...attempts to explain his belief in this concrete way : " I have come to believe that an old man sitting in his armchair, waiting patiently with his lamp beside him, giving unconscious ear to all the external laws that reign about his house, interpreting, without comprehending, the silence of doors... | |
 | Francis Sydney Marvin - 1920 - 314 pàgines
...matter for drama in ' a captain who conquers in battle or a husband who avenges his honour than in an old man, seated in his arm-chair waiting patiently...interpreting without comprehending, the silence of door and window, and the quivering voice of the light ; submitting with bent head to the presence of... | |
 | Helen Louise Cohen - 1921 - 428 pàgines
...matter of the drama. He expresses it in this way in his famous essay on The Tragic in Daily Life: " An old man, seated in his armchair, waiting patiently with his lamp beside him — submitting with bent head to the presence of his soul and his destiny — motionless as he is,... | |
 | Herbert Samuel Mallory - 1923 - 558 pàgines
...come back.1 Many an inexperienced dramatist fails to see the force of these words of Maeterlinck : "An old man, seated in his armchair, waiting patiently, with his lamp beside him — submitting with bent head to the presence of his soul and his destiny — motionless as he is does... | |
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