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James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley, Chapter 23: three months in Congress. (search)
ring leader in the exploit is among the first to laugh at the miscarriage. There is not a bit of heart in it. They don't seem to cheer with much unction, I remarked to a Taylor original. Ne-e-o, they don't cheer much, he as faintly replied; there is a good deal of doubt as to the decorum of cheering at a social ball. True enough: the possibility of indecorum was sufficient to check the impulse to cheer, and very few passed the barrier. The cheers stuck in the throat, like Macbeth's Amen, and the proprieties of the occasion were well cared for. But just imagine Old Hal walking down that staircase, the just inaugurated President of the United States, into the midst of three thousand of the elite of the beauty and chivalry of the Whig party, and think how the rafters would have quivered with the universal acclamation. Just think of tome one stopping to consider whether it might not be indecorous to cheer on such an occasion! What a solitary hermit that consider
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1, Chapter 3: Newport 1879-1882; aet. 60-63 (search)
l the mischief that is done under the sun, I appear and say that I am she, that woman, the female fate of the Macbeth family. In the monologue that follows, Lady Macbeth fairly lives before the audience, and in amazing travesty relates the course of the drama. She thus describes the visit of the weird sisters (the three MissMisses Macbeth) who have been asked to contribute some of their excellent hell-broth and devilled articles for her party. At 12 M., a rushing and bustling was heard, and down the kitchen chimney tumbled the three weird sisters, finding everything ready for their midnight operations. ... That hussy of a Macbeth's wife leaves us noMacbeth's wife leaves us nothing to work with, cried one. She makes double trouble for us. Double trouble, double trouble, they all cried and groaned in chorus, and presently fell into a sort of trilogy of mingled prose and verse which was enough to drive one mad. Where hast thou been? Sticking pigs. And where hast thou? Why, curling wigs Fit for a shak
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 3: (search)
number of hours have passed with me in England. He gave me a new reading in Macbeth, from Henderson, to whom Mrs. Siddons once read her part for correction, when Mr. Sharp was present. The common pointing and emphasis is:— Macbeth. If we should fail? Lady Macbeth. We fail. But screw your courage to the sticking place, AndLady Macbeth. We fail. But screw your courage to the sticking place, And we'll not fail. No, said Henderson, on hearing her read it thus, that is inconsistent with Lady Macbeth's character. She never permits herself to doubt thLady Macbeth's character. She never permits herself to doubt their success, and least of all when arguing with her husband. Read it thus, Mrs. Siddons:— Macbeth. If we should fail? Lady Macbeth (with contempt). We fail? But Macbeth. If we should fail? Lady Macbeth (with contempt). We fail? But screw your courage to the sticking place And we'll not fail. June 7.—This morning I breakfasted with Mr. Sharp, and had a continuation of yesterday,—more pleasanLady Macbeth (with contempt). We fail? But screw your courage to the sticking place And we'll not fail. June 7.—This morning I breakfasted with Mr. Sharp, and had a continuation of yesterday,—more pleasant accounts of the great men of the present day, and more amusing anecdotes of the generation that has passed away. After breakfast he carried me through the S
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 24: (search)
ow a good deal about Shakespeare, and I was glad to have her say, very decidedly, that she could not imagine how anybody could think of making the character of Lady Macbeth interesting, by an expression of more human feeling and tenderness in the mode of representation; for it is quite the fashion in Germany now, to consider her a half so bad as people have thought her, and it is even now said that Tieck is instructing Mlle. Bauer how to produce this impression upon the audience. When Macbeth was brought out Mr. Ticknor wrote: The story that Lady Macbeth was to be produced as quite an amiable person proved untrue. She was represented, indeed, as more Lady Macbeth was to be produced as quite an amiable person proved untrue. She was represented, indeed, as more affectionate to her husband, and less imperious to him, than I have been accustomed to see her, and I am not sure but it was right. February 8.—I dined to-day at Mr. Forbes's, with only Jordan, the Prussian Minister, and Baron von Herder. The latter is the son of the famous Herder, and head of the great Saxon mining establish
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), chapter 26 (search)
ssor, 348. Longfellow, Henry W., 399. Longfellow, Stephen, 14. Loretto, visits, 167. Louvois, Marchioness de, 253. Lovell, Mrs., 286. Lowe, Rev. Mr., 440, 441, 446. Lowell, John, 339, 356, 360. Lowenstein-Wertheim, Princess, 487, 489. Lund, 177. Luittichau, Madame Ida de, 476, 481, 482, 483, 485, 491. Luttichau, M. de, 476 and note, 491. Luxmoore, the Misses, 432 note. Lyman, Mrs., Theodore, 10. Lynch, John, 389 note. Lyndhurst, Lord, Chancellor, 443. M Macbeth, Henderson's reading of, 55, 56. Mackenzie, Henry, 279. Mackintosh, Lady, 290. Mackintosh, Sir, James, 50, 263, 264, 265, 279, 289, 290, 291, 430. McLane, Louis, 409. McLane, Miss, 277, 278. McNeill, Mr., 417. McNeill, Mrs., 417. Madison. J., President of the United States, 29, 30, 34, 53, 110, 346, 347, 409. Madison, Mrs., 29, 30, 346, 347. Madraso, Jose de, 186 and note. Madrid, visits, 185, 186-220; described, 190– 214. Malaga, 233, 234. Malaga, Bishop, 234, 235.
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 11: (search)
t once for above two months, and hope not to be obliged to go there again for above a month more. But, now and then, somebody comes to me wandering over the morning dew,—as the shepherds did to Parnell's Hermit,—and I hear in this way of the bustle of the great world of our little city, without being incommoded by its stir. From what I hear I suspect the early Taylorites in my neighborhood do not feel so easy as they did when I saw them last . . . . . Moreover, they begin to be afraid, as Macbeth did, that they have 'filed their minds, after all, for somebody's else benefit and not for their own, or that of their party. They begin to be afraid, in short, that Taylor may not be chosen. . . . . . I am, on the contrary, of the mind of the elder brother in Comus:— I incline to hope, rather than fear, And gladly banish squint suspicion. I shall vote for Taylor, and if you do as well for him in Maine as Vermont has done, you will yet give him your personal vote as an elector . . . . <
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 23: (search)
ought nothing more about it until he was here a few weeks ago and told me he should soon print on the subject. His system, if carried into real, faithful effect, would, no doubt, break up the power of caucuses, and much impair the influence of demagogues; but the question is whether the people will not, after all, prefer the false gods they have so long worshipped. In other words, can they be got out of the old, deep ruts in which they have been so long misled. It seems to me as if, like Macbeth, we must wade over whatever may be the cost or the consequences. And where are we going to, when we get to the other side without a Constitution?—says we are going to the D—l as fast as we can, and ought to be very grateful that we have got a D—l to go to. That is his fashion of expressing the state of things. How do you express it in New York? . . . . Many people are glad that the President is substantially made an irresponsible Dictator, though they have no confidence in him or his ad<
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), chapter 30 (search)
ers to, 215, 216, 230, 234, 240, 253, 271, 273, 276, 287, 296, 407, 422, 430, 446, 460. Lyell, Colonel H., II. 360. Lyell, Mrs. (Lady), II. 197, 293, 223, 291, 294, 313 and note, 322, 328, 329, 357, 358, 359, 363, 364, 365, 367, 369, 370, 423, 432, 460; letters to, 437, 439, 449. Lyman, Mrs., Theodore, I. 10. Lynch, John, I. 389 note. Lyndhurst, Lord, Chancellor, I 443, II 365, 371. M Macaulay, T. B., II. 260 note, 269 note, 323, 324, 325, 361, 362, 366, 367, 369, 373. Macbeth, Henderson's reading of, I. 55, 56. Mackenzie, II. 155. Mackenzie, Henry, I. 279. Mackenzie, Miss, of Seaforth, II. 85, 86 note. Mackintosh, Robert J., II. 181. Mackintosh, Sir, James, I. 50, 263, 264, 265, 279, 289, 290, 291, 430; Lady, 290. McClellan, General George B., II. 444, 458. McClellan, Mrs. George B., Il 458. McLane, Louis, I. 409. McLane, Miss, I. 277, 278. McNeill, Mr., I. 417, II. 12, 13. McNeill, Mrs., I. 417, II. 164. Madison. J., President of t
James Russell Lowell, Among my books, Milton. (search)
reality to a picture which genius only has the art to do, is becoming a weariness in modern descriptive writing. It reminds one of the Mrs. Jarley expedient of dressing the waxen effigies of murderers in the very clothes they wore when they did the deed, or with the real halter round their necks wherewith they expiated it. It is probably very effective with the torpid sensibilities of the class who look upon wax figures as works of art. True imaginative power works with other material. Lady Macbeth striving to wash away from her hands the damned spot that is all the more there to the mind of the spectator because it is not there at all, is a type of the methods it employs and the intensity of their action. Having discharged my duty in regard to Mr. Masson's faults of manner, which I should not have dwelt on so long had they not greatly marred a real enjoyment in the reading, and were they not the ear-mark of a school which has become unhappily numerous, I turn to a consideration
D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 18: (search)
falls back to Durham surrender. It remains now only to consider the final campaign in North Carolina. Toward the close of 1864, Gen. J. G. Martin had been recalled from the Virginia army and placed in command of the Western department of North Carolina, with headquarters at Asheville. Under his command were, according to Martin's return, March 10th, the following troops: Col. J. B. Palmer's brigade, embracing the Sixty-second, Sixty-fourth and Sixty-ninth (?) North Carolina regiments; Macbeth's light artillery; Erwin's battalion of Senior reserves; Thomas' legion (Love's regiment), McKamy's battalion, Indian battalion, and Barr's battery—a total force of 2,910. It is not clear why in this report General Martin seems to count one regiment twice. These regiments of active, hardy mountaineers were mainly employed in repelling the numerous raids through the mountains by Federal mixed forces, and in meeting detachments from Col. George W. Kirk's notorious regiment of Union North
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