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Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. (1899)

Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910 · Philadelphia, Pa., A. J. Holman & Co · leaf 232

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age of to-day has felt. The actors and actresses fail inelocution. They do not know where to put their emphasis. They seem lostwhen they appear in costume, and Shakespeare to-day has no distinguishedexponents. The English-speaking stage of the century has been adorned by such elo-quent interpreters… … SCENE FROM SHAKESPEARES PI.AY OF ROMEO AND JULIET. 214 TRIUMPHS AND WONDERS OF THE XIX CENTURY question may well be asked, where is the actor or actress who can play Ham-let, or Macbeth, or King Lear, or Shy lock as we were wont to see them ren-dered by those masters of the dramatic art, or as they…

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