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Excerpt from The Actor and Other Speeches, Chiefly on Theatrical Subjects and Occasions
T is an honorable privilege as well as a great plea sure to share in the proceedings of this delightful occasion. Dull indeed would be the spirit that could not be impressed by the intrinsic loveliness and the artistic meaning of this imposing scene; by the pres ence of this remarkable assemblage, remarkable equally for genius, intellect, beauty, sensibility, noble achieve ment, exalted character, and auspicious promise and by conscious and thrilling perception of that noble and beautiful art, the art of acting, of which this assemblage is the visible sign. Once again is exemplified here the puissant and perpetual charm of the stage, its ever changing but never-dying sway over the fickle multi tude, whereby an actor's prosperity is Obtained and assured, and its placid dominion, held as with a scepter of roses, over the educated mind, the refined taste, theage 20am.
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