"This over, he gave Priene to his players for a habitation, and set sail for Athens, where fresh sports and play-acting employed him.

Heavenly things are too important, too true, too realChrist is too near us, and too loving to us, too earnest about our salvation, for us to spend our thoughts on any such attempts (however reverently meant) at imaginative play-acting in our own minds about His hanging on His cross, while we know that He is not on His cross; and about watching by His tomb, when we know that He is not in His tomb.

"If you'd drop that play-acting talk and speak like a man, I'd like you better," Sylvanus Power continued.

"Why am I called Commodus?" He stood magnificent, with folded arms, confronting her, play-acting the part of a guiltless man arraigned before the magistrate.

that is the clock; it is striking one, and I out of bed and gabbling to myself in this foolish way of mine, 'like a play-acting woman,' as Uncle Jeffrey would say of me.

"Play-acting I don't hold with," he burst out, with sudden ferocity.

It was a piece of admirable play-acting; and was meant to be.

A curious phase of human nature is that same play-acting, effect- studying, temperament, which ends, if indulged in too much, in hopeless self-deception, and 'the hypocrisy which,' as Mr. Carlyle says, 'is honestly indignant that you should think it hypocritical.'

"However," adds he, "do you make enquiry, Kit, if you can get yourself understood, if there be ever a bull to be fought to-day or any diversion of dancing or play-acting to-night, that the time hang not too heavy on our hands.

'And to hear you raving about this play-acting fellowit is too humiliating.

I'd hit this water over the fellow, and all his play-acting merryandrews, if ever he sot a foot here!"

The Weimarians were very fond of play-acting, and Goethe became their purveyor of dramatic supplies.

If she wanted his love, she might have had it for the taking, without all this play-acting nonsense.

he said, stepping back and regarding 'Enery with shining eyes, "Mon brave, mon beau Anglais, mon" But 'Enery's own captain arrived here and interrupted the flow of admiration, cursing the grinning and sheepish private for a this, that, and the other crazy, play-acting idiot, and winding up abruptly by shaking hands with him and saying gruffly, "Good work, though.

But at last we passed over the shoulder of a hill into shadow on the farther side, and there was no more need of play-acting.

For their neighbours, after a time, see what they cannot see themselves, that they are play-acting; that they are two different people without knowing it: that their religion is a thing apart from their real character.

For then, before the storm of some trying temptation, away goes all the play-acting religion; and the man's true self rises up from underneath into ugly life.

How do we know that it may not be God's gracious medicine to enable them to find themselves out; to make them see themselves in their true colours; to purge them of all their play-acting; and begin all over again, crying to God, not with the lips only, but out of the depth of an honest and a noble shame, as David did of oldBehold

I am still largely of my Aunt Charlotte's opinion, that play-acting is unworthy of a pure-minded man's attention, much more participation.

Did you think it fair to widen the distance between us by thisthis piece of play-acting? Give me your hand.

All Ireland seemed to be play-acting and play-writing; so much so that Frank Fay was heard to say that "he thought everyone had a play in his pocket, and that anyone in the street could be picked up and shaped into an actor or actress with a little training, Ireland was so teeming with talent!"

When Mrs. BANCROFT appeared as the girl-pupil in School, she was the character to the life; but when Miss REHAN calls herself Etna, throws herself on sofas, and hugs a man with less inches than herself, we cannot but feel that it is very superior play-acting, but still play-acting.

When Mrs. BANCROFT appeared as the girl-pupil in School, she was the character to the life; but when Miss REHAN calls herself Etna, throws herself on sofas, and hugs a man with less inches than herself, we cannot but feel that it is very superior play-acting, but still play-acting.

What's the good of all this play-acting?

I believe I will go back and court Bertie on some of her play-acting rounds, and mate a decent woman of that little vagabond.