"Histrion" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... jours de triomphe ou le troupeau vulgaire Qui pese au meme poids L'histrion ridicule et le genie austere ...
— Musicians of To-Day • Romain Rolland
... off to the lingerie and entertain Mlle. Marceline and Constance and Felicite (who all three adored him) with comic songs and break-downs of his own invention, and imitations of everybody in the school. He was a born histrion—a kind of French Arthur Roberts—but very beautiful to the female eye, and also always dear to the female heart—a most delightful ...
— The Martian • George Du Maurier
... picturesque, and appears to be plucky, The Roscius role the young actor would try; His debut "gets a hand," which is certainly lucky. These Infant Phenomena frequently fail To rouse anything more than good-natured derision; But clappings and cheers this boy histrion hail. What then ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, February 22nd, 1890 • Various
... the chief histrion, Down to the footlights walks in some great scena, Dominating the rest I see the Admiral himself, (History's type of courage, action, faith,) Behold him sail from Palos leading his little fleet, His voyage behold, his return, his great fame, His misfortunes, calumniators, ...
— Leaves of Grass • Walt Whitman
... stable, some little alarm was created in the neighbourhood of the Conductor, which did not entirely subside until the fall of the curtain. But the sagacious steed knew its business thoroughly well, and was indeed an admirable histrion. Only once, at the initial performance, did this intelligent creature remember its personality, and drop the public actor in the private individual. The occasion was when it had to put its head out of a loose-box to listen to the singing of a serio-comic song by a lady, dressed as ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 99, August 16, 1890 • Various |
