27 examples of thespian in sentences

{123c} I saw also Socrates, the son of Sophroniscus, prating with Nestor and Palamedes; near him were Hyacinthus of Sparta, Narcissus the Thespian, Hylas, and several other beauties: he seemed very fond of Hyacinthus.

His Thespians are gay because they are happy, and happy because (though poor) they are virtuous.

But according to The Thespian Dictionary her first appearance on the stage was in 1786.

Next Marloe bathed in Thespian springs, Had in him those brave sublunary things, That your first poets had; his raptures were All air and fire, which made his verses clear; For that fine madness still he did retain, Which rightly should possess a poet's brain.

actor, thespian, player; method actor; stage player, strolling player; stager, performer; mime, mimer^; artists; comedian, tragedian; tragedienne, Roscius; star, movie star, star of stage and screen, superstar, idol, sex symbol; supporting actor, supporting cast; ham, hamfatter

He must not think that she accepted this latest departure of his imagination incarnated by his Thespian gift in anything but his own spirit.

The Thespian Sisters nurtured in the schools Of Greece and Rome, and long coerced by rules, Scarce moved the inmates of their native hearth With tiny pathos and with trivial mirth, Till She, great muse of daring enterprise, Delighted ENGLAND!

In Baltimore he enjoyed himself with his friends and played at amateur theatricals with the Thespian Club.

The Amateur Thespians of the Borough of Manhattan gave a whole series of performances at the club during the autumn, and by slow degrees the society papers began to take notice.

The amateur thespians of the exclusive set no longer play on the stage of its club-house, and it was only last week that Mrs. John Jacob Wintergreen passed Mr. Scraggs on the street with a cold glare of unrecognition.

To return to the more congenial subject of Oldfield, it is strange that so shrewd a Thespian as Cibber (who seems to have been clever in all things but poetry) was so long in coming to a real appreciation of her genius.

There was a manager of Oldfield's day who surely did not escape, and that was Christopher Rich, Esquire, one of the patentees of Drury Lane Theatre, and sole director, as a rule, in the affairs of that Thespian temple.

Thespian temple, indeed!

Are we ourselves exacting where the Thespian is concerned?

Two or three of the most striking among them are worth having, but mostly they detestable,vulgar repetitions of vulgar models, shamming grace, gentility, and emotion, by the aid of costumes, attitudes, expressions, and accessories worthy only of a Thespian society of candle-snuffers.

What time are thethese amateur Thespians coming?

Yonder window is one of those beastly combinations that playwrights employ to make the Thespian's pathway to fame a rocky one; but you must get over it, and say it right.

All right, my noble Thespians, wait!

Mrs. Slapman relished these little ebullitions of natural feeling, because it made the illusion of her "Thespian parlor" (as she called it) more complete.

A KIDNAPPING IV IN WHICH CHILDE ARTHUR LOSES ONE MOTHER AND GAINS ANOTHER V TEMPORARY EMBARRASSMENTS OF A THESPIAN VI MR.

"No, I won't take yer back, an' I'll do my best, butoh, 'Dolph!"she brushed the back of her hand across her eyes and turned to the dog with the bravest smile she could contrive "to think of me bein' a mother, at my time o' life!" CHAPTER V TEMPORARY EMBARRASSMENTS OF A THESPIAN.

THESPIS, the father of Greek tragedy, hence Thespian art for the drama.

Thou my Cupid,not the boy-god whom the Thespians did adore, But the man, so large, so noble, truer god than Venus bore.

"Hand-clapping?" "Yes," said the Thespian, "they are giving me enough applause to show they appreciate me.

Quite indescribably strange is the effect on my mind of looking back at my three Thespian avatarsFalstaff at Cincinnati, Acres and Sir Anthony in Grand Ducal Florence, and Sir Anthony again in a liberated Tuscany!

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