She had a tower of lace on her head, under which was a bush of black curlsborrowed curlsso that no wonder little Harry Esmond was scared when he was first presented to her, the kind priest acting as master of the ceremonies at that solemn introduction, and he stared at her with eyes almost as great as her own, as he had stared at the player woman who acted the wicked tragedy-queen, when the players came down to Ealing Fair.

Johnson is a very good scholar and a poet, and, I have great hopes, will turn out a fine tragedy-writer.

"Now, don't try your tragedy airs on us," said the inspector.

a tragedy actress!

Tragedy trail, by George Owen Baxter, pseud. of Frederick Faust.

She can put on a better tragedy face than I can."

We are glad to hear this, because it is strong encouragement for other dramatists, and leads us to hope that tragedy-writing may still be revived among us, and that with greater success than has attended many recent efforts.

Needs no confession to tell there is acting Somewhere about you a tragedy grim.

Pen perceived the error under which his guardian was labouring, and in the midst of his misery the blunder caused the poor wretch a faint smile, and served to bring down the conversation from the tragedy-key in which Pen had been disposed to carry it on.

Long after this little girl was grown an aged woman, I have seen some of these small parts, each making two or three pages at most, copied out in the rudest hand of the then prompter, who doubtless transcribed a little more carefully and fairly for the grown-up tragedy ladies of the establishment.

But Tom is the very model of an actor, and Terry is grand, if only we can keep him out of the high tragedy line.

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He will not give up the sordid tragedy à trois.

What a tragedy misunderstandings are.

Then we had stolen interviews of two hours' duration each, for several successive nights, at the old horologer's back-door, during which, besides a multiplicity of small-talkthanks to his deafnessI tried my utmost to entrap her affections, by reciting sonnets, and spouting bits of plays in the manner of the tragedy performers.

This, however, is not all that the tragedy possesses of the author.

"What splendid tragedy powers!" were some of the audible remarks that this called forth.

The delight of tragedy proceeds from our consciousness of fiction; if we thought murders and treasons real, they would please no more.

[Illustration: 'S'] Solemn and severe German tragedy reigns in the Fourteenth Street theatre.

This violent tragedy-speech, and the high manner in which she uttered it, had its desired effect.

But leaving them to their lewdness, I hope you, and all discreet readers, will thankfully receive my pains, the fruits of my first harvest: the rather, perceiving that my purpose in this tragedy tendeth only to the exaltation of virtue and suppression of vice, with pleasure to profit and help all men, but to offend or hurt no man.

At a yet earlier period Italian writers in the learned tongue had taken as the subjects of their plays stories from classical legend and myth, and among these we find not only recognized tragedy themes such as the rape of Polyxena dramatized by Lionardo Bruni, but tales such as that of Progne put on the stage by Gregorio Corrado, both of which preceded by many years the work of Politian and Correggio.

But neither that, nor the other strong point, where he exulted in the finest tragedy tones over the anticipated downfall of Fate and Rodicaso, produced the slightest sensation among his hearers.

Tell us, father, does thy sad tragedy touch in any manner on the interests of this fair being?

"With that tragedy loneliness came upon me like a curse.