THE POWER OF A SILENT WOMAN
Ono of the greatest inrtanooa of eMoo** was Cordelia, the daughter of King®?, writes Sir Stafford Northoote. I BUppose thore is no character in any of Shakespeare's plays that produces a- more won. derful efi'ect on the imagination and feelings of those who read or see his plays performed with so few touches or strokes or so few words spoken :aa Cordelia, I was looking at a comment upon tho play, and I see it is notio'ed'in the first act Cordelia has only forty-three' lines assigned to hor, ■ She does not appear again until the fourth act, in tho foujth" seeno of which *he ; has twei)tyfour lings, and in tlifl seventh thirty:seven, •'•Jntho fifth aot she has five Hues, • Yet whole progress of the, play, m minever forget Jiey; and ■ after" its' melancholy, olose she. lingers about out reooUeotes as if wo had'eeeij spme'beingmore beautiful and purer, than; a thing of earthy had communicated with'l by a higher medium than that of words, Her beauty consists largely in her silence;:: •
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1899, 27 January 1885, Page 2
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176THE POWER OF A SILENT WOMAN Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1899, 27 January 1885, Page 2
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