A tragedian is a hard character only on the stage, but the comedian is the comedian always. From Wordnik.com. [The Idiot] Reference
Our tragedian was a rough joker off the stage; our prime clown the most peevish mortal living. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of a Traveller] Reference
Incidentally makes fun of the tragedian Euripides. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1] Reference
Billy, freckled and sharp-eyed, was a born tragedian. From Wordnik.com. [Joyce of the North Woods] Reference
The picture of the tragedian stood enframed upon her desk. From Wordnik.com. [The Awakening] Reference
One night a great tragedian was playing 'Hamlet,' and poor. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean, High School Freshman] Reference
The tragedian, then, idealises, because he starts from within. From Wordnik.com. [An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times] Reference
The tragedian had just signed a contract to tour South Africa. From Wordnik.com. [Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers] Reference
He is 'the old mystical tragedian of the Middle Ages, Everyman.'. From Wordnik.com. [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] Reference
"I have weighed every thing, Sir," replied the young tragedian. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810] Reference
Callimachus 'primary reputation was hardly that of a tragedian; and. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Poems of Ovid] Reference
'Good, dear boy, good!' said the tragedian, and the two shook hands. From Wordnik.com. [Cruel Barbara Allen From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.)] Reference
He had been a tragedian as well as a captain, and was saturated with. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860] Reference
The man I took to most was a second-role tragedian called Menekrates. From Wordnik.com. [The Mask of Apollo]
Barbara, and the tragedian and his wife apparently forgot her presence. From Wordnik.com. [Cruel Barbara Allen From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.)] Reference
He was a universal actor -- comedian, tragedian, buffoon -- all in one. From Wordnik.com. [Edison's Conquest of Mars] Reference
That vain tragedian, he thought; let us see how he looks to the new age. From Wordnik.com. [Funeral Games]
At this point, Maxwell, the tragedian from Marlboro, obtained the floor. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922] Reference
But it left in my mind a very pleasant impression of this great tragedian. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861] Reference
And Salvini was Tomazo Salvini, great Italian tragedian of the 19th century. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: The 'Odd Couple' Reunites - March 23, 2001] Reference
Time, however, is but one among many circumstances which the tragedian ignores. From Wordnik.com. [An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times] Reference
This was Barry Sullivan, who was, I think, the finest tragedian I have ever seen. From Wordnik.com. [The Life Story of an Old Rebel] Reference
The tragedian presents to us scenes of life, not its continuous flow of incident. From Wordnik.com. [An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times] Reference
"You will remember it, sir," said the tragedian, carefully pronouncing it for him. From Wordnik.com. [Assimilative Memory or, How to Attend and Never Forget] Reference
Ah! ah! here comes his brother too, another tragedian, and another son of Carcinus. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2] Reference
Edwin Booth, the tragedian, brother of the regicide Wilkes, was at a friend's house. From Wordnik.com. [The Lincoln Story Book] Reference
Amongst the many hits at the young tragedian, the two following are not the worst. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari. Volume 1, July 31, 1841] Reference
To you or me he would have looked like what he was, a second or third-rate tragedian. From Wordnik.com. [Cruel Barbara Allen From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.)] Reference
Any one may possess the portrait of a tragedian without exciting suspicion or comment. From Wordnik.com. [The Awakening] Reference
A longstanding quarrel with Macready resulted in the tragedian assaulting the manager. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
Conway the tragedian called to see me one evening, and in attempting to pass was stopped by. From Wordnik.com. [The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2] Reference
But the synthesis keeps pace with the abstraction, for the tragedian creates not passions but men. From Wordnik.com. [An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times] Reference
Once again, Kalidasa has nothing of the tragedian in his soul; his works, without exception, end happily. From Wordnik.com. [Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works] Reference
None but a tragedian can die by rule, and wait till he discovers a plot, or says a fine thing upon his exit. From Wordnik.com. [The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899] Reference
At this juncture our host attempted to fill Rossi's glass with some peculiarly choice wine, but the tragedian stopped him with a smile. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876] Reference
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