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" A dance, in which every motion was a word, and rest as eloquent as motion ; in which every attitude was a fresh motive for a sculptor of the purest school, and the highest physical activity was manifested, not as in the coarser comic pantomimes, in fantastic... "
Hypatia: Or, New Foes with an Old Face. By Charles Kinglsey, Jun ... - Page 186
by Charles Kingsley - 1853
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Hypatia, Or, New Foes with an Old Face, Volumes 1-2

Charles Kingsley - 1857 - 668 pages
...only possible among a people of the free and exquisite physical training, and the delicate aesthetic perception of those old Greeks, even in their most...pageant beyond, had vanished from her imagination of the spectators, under the constraining inspiration of her art, and they and she alike saw nothing...
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Hypatia: Or, New Foes with an Old Face, Volume 2

Charles Kingsley - 1857 - 362 pages
...activity waa manifested, not as in the coarser comic pantomimes, in fantastic bounds and onnatural distortions, but in perpetual delicate modulations...pageant beyond, had vanished from her imagination of the spectators, under the constraining inspiration of her art, and they and she alike saw nothing...
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Programme, Volumes 1911-1912

Boston Symphony Orchestra - 1911 - 1306 pages
...of the purest school, and the highest physical activity was manifested, not, as in coarse pantomime, in fantastic bounds and unnatural distortions, but...in perpetual, delicate modulations of a stately and self-sustained grace.' We can scarcely think of a happier description than this of Miss Duncan's art....
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Hypatia

Charles Kingsley - 1887 - 456 pages
...manifested, not as in the coarser comic pantomimes, in fantastic bounds and unnatural distortions, hut in perpetual delicate modulations of a stately and selfrestraining grace. The artist was for the m jment transformed into the goddess. The theatre, and Alexandria, and the gorgeous pageant beyond,...
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Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for Members of the English Church ...

1889 - 610 pages
...rest as eloquent as motion . . . and the highest physical activity was manifested, not as in coarse comic pantomimes, in fantastic bounds and unnatural...in perpetual delicate modulations of a stately and self-sustaining grace.' But in the wild dithyramb used at the feast of Bacchus, or rather, Dionysius,...
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Hypatia, Or, New Foes with an Old Face

Charles Kingsley - 1890 - 482 pages
...only possible among a people of the free and exquisite physical training and the delicate aesthetic perception of those old Greeks, even in their most...was for the moment transformed into the goddess. The theater, and Alexandria, and the gorgeous pageant beyond, had vanished from her imagination, and therefore...
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The Ancient Classical Drama: A Study in Literary Evolution Intended for ...

Richard Green Moulton - 1890 - 514 pages
...sculptor of the purest school, and the highest physical activity was manifested, not, as in coarse comic pantomimes, in fantastic bounds and unnatural...in perpetual delicate modulations of a stately and selfsustaining grace. The Bal- It is such dancing as this which united with speech and the common music...
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Igdrasil, Volumes 2-3

1890 - 516 pages
...sculptor of the purest school; and the highest physical activity was manifested—not, as in coarse comic pantomimes, in fantastic bounds and unnatural...in perpetual delicate modulations of a stately and self-sustaining grace." Only one of these ballad dances was destined to develop into drama,— viz.,...
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Hypatia: Or, New Foes with an Old Face

Charles Kingsley - 1891 - 376 pages
...only possible among a people of the free and exquisite physical training, and the delicate aesthetic perception of those old Greeks, even in their most...spectators, under the constraining inspiration of ner art, and they and she alike saw nothing but the lonely sea around Cythera, and the goddess hovering...
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Some Records of Crime: Being the Diary of a Year, Official and ..., Volume 1

Charles Hervey - 1892 - 480 pages
...— Kin^sley, in " Hypatia," well contrasts the movements of the performers in this Grecian dance : "not, as in the coarser comic pantomimes, in fantastic...modulations of a stately and self-restraining grace." is nothing to shock him and much to charm ! I include in this persuasion, the ordinary standard of...
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