 | Anna Morgan - 1909 - 392 pàgines
...The rest is silence. Giovanni, at the close of Stephen Phillips's play " Paolo and Francesca," says : She takes away my strength. I did not know the dead...hair. Hide them. They look like children fast asleep. Q. What quality do fear, secrecy, and caution impart to the voice ? A. A breathy, whispered quality,... | |
 | Frank Wadleigh Chandler - 1914 - 524 pàgines
...Giovanni looks upon them, his madness leaves him. Quietly, he kisses the foreheads of his victims, saying: "I did not know the dead could have such hair. Hide them. They look like children fast asleep." This mood is akin to that in which Maeterlinck concludes "Pe'lle'as and Mdlisande," rather than to... | |
 | 1917 - 516 pàgines
...a litter, with the brief speech of Giovanni as he bends and kisses them, quiet but shaken : . . . . She takes away my strength. I did not know the dead could have such hair. Stephen Phillips had his limitations ; but, after the beauty and dignity and feeling of that, the So,... | |
 | 1918 - 942 pàgines
...forehead quietly. He is shaken — then the agony .breaks from his lips in one last quivering cry: She takes away my strength. I did not know the dead...hair. Hide them ! They look like children fast asleep ! Stephen Phillips' next play, Herod, might be described as a work of almost aching beauty. Its dramatic... | |
 | 1919 - 936 pàgines
...expressed in Giovanni's closing lines, as he looks upon the dead lovers : . . " She takes away my breath. I did not know the dead could have such hair. Hide them. They look like children fast asleep." 'Paolo and Francesca' was first performed in London in 1902 and in New York in 1906. PAPACY, the doctrine... | |
 | Sir John Collings Squire - 1919 - 264 pàgines
...skilful ending : the murder behind the scenes, the bodies brought in, the murderer's revulsion : / did not know the dead could have such hair. Hide them. They look like children fast asleep. But those who did not shrink from comparing it with Romeo and Juliet omitted to notice the same deficiencies... | |
 | 1921 - 542 pàgines
...air." Bending over them, Giovanni kisses them on the foreheads and in a shaken voice concludes : — " She takes away my strength. I did not know the dead...Hide them. They look like children fast asleep." The final scene is not unlike that of a Greek tragedy, "all passion spent". D'Annunzio's play, Francesca... | |
 | 1921 - 604 pàgines
...air." Bending over them, Giovanni kisses them on the foreheads and in a shaken voice concludes : — " She takes away my strength. I did not know the dead...Hide them. They look like children fast asleep." The final scene is not unlike that of a Greek tragedy, "all passion spent". D'Annunzio's play, Francesco... | |
 | Hesketh Pearson - 1921 - 244 pàgines
...flame, Which nothing can put out, nothing divide. And the deathless pathos of Giovanni's last lines : She takes away my strength. I did not know the dead...hair. Hide them. They look like children fast asleep I IX FRANK BENSON KING GEORGE V knighted him, but for the purposes of this article I shall dub him... | |
 | Eugen Kölbing, Johannes Hoops, Arthur Kölbing, Reinald Hoops, Albert Wagner - 1923 - 502 pàgines
...are dead. Unwillingly They loved, unwillingly I slew them, Now I kiss them on the forehead quietly. She takes away my strength. I did not know the dead...such hair. Hide them. They look like children fast asleepl" Wie schon gesagt, war das erste Drama Phillips' in vieler Hinsicht auch sein bestes. Der nächste... | |
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Not easily have we three come to this, We three who now are dead. Unwillingly They loved, unwillingly I slew them. Now I kiss them on the forehead quietly. 
