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Page 95
... grace ? Grace Involves Economy . - Says Prof. Max Meyer : 1 " The disappearance of awkwardness is generally equiv- alent to the dropping of all movements unnecessary for the end in question . A graceful motion is simply a motion no ...
... grace ? Grace Involves Economy . - Says Prof. Max Meyer : 1 " The disappearance of awkwardness is generally equiv- alent to the dropping of all movements unnecessary for the end in question . A graceful motion is simply a motion no ...
Page 96
... grace is economy of motion without sacrifice of an adequate display of strength . Spectators Become Imitators . - The reason for this is found in the psychology of perception , or interest , or attention . Why does one action influence ...
... grace is economy of motion without sacrifice of an adequate display of strength . Spectators Become Imitators . - The reason for this is found in the psychology of perception , or interest , or attention . Why does one action influence ...
Page 97
... grace- ful ; for a graceful movement is one which leaves the observer feeling that it is being done the precise way in which he himself would do it . Gracefulness Is Pleasing Only to Normal People.- To an audience of people bi ...
... grace- ful ; for a graceful movement is one which leaves the observer feeling that it is being done the precise way in which he himself would do it . Gracefulness Is Pleasing Only to Normal People.- To an audience of people bi ...
Page 98
... grace or ease ; then he is uncouth and ungraceful very properly . But before athletic , dancing , physically attuned observers grace is essential ; without the combination of ease and strength that stirs in the observers the same type ...
... grace or ease ; then he is uncouth and ungraceful very properly . But before athletic , dancing , physically attuned observers grace is essential ; without the combination of ease and strength that stirs in the observers the same type ...
Page 99
... Grace is nothing more than a happy combination of ease and strength . Flabby action is seldom acceptable ; action ... grace- ful one is ; grace is almost always accompanied by per- fect freedom of all muscles and joints . If grace in ...
... Grace is nothing more than a happy combination of ease and strength . Flabby action is seldom acceptable ; action ... grace- ful one is ; grace is almost always accompanied by per- fect freedom of all muscles and joints . If grace in ...
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Page 207 - For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe: You call me misbeliever, cut-throat, dog, And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine, And all for use of that which is mine own. Well then, it now appears, you need my help; Go to, then; you come to me, and you say, Shylock, we would have moneys...
Page 229 - She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight: A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and way-lay.
Page 196 - A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling My beautiful Annabel Lee; So that her highborn kinsmen came And bore her away from me.
Page 257 - We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for everything, we are out of tune; It moves us not. — Great God! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.
Page 254 - She should have died hereafter ; There would have been a time for such a word. To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death.
Page 197 - But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks! It is the east, and Juliet is the sun ! — Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief, That thou her maid art far more fair than she...
Page 244 - Be not too tame, neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor; suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature: for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.
Page 253 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears : soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony.
Page 255 - Thou minds me o' the happy days When my fause Luve was true. Thou'll break my heart, thou bonnie bird That sings beside thy mate; For sae I sat, and sae I sang, And wist na o' my fate. Aft hae I roved by bonnie Doon To see the woodbine twine, And ilka bird sang o' its love; And sae did I o
Page 314 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.