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— Stephen Crane

I stood upon a high place,

And saw, below, many devils

Running, leaping,

And carousing in sin.

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A person whose profession is acting on the stage, in films, or on television.

“The lead actor delivered a powerful performance that moved the entire audience to tears.”

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THE ELECTRICIAN.

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Samuel Johnson·1709–1784
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ong hast thou borne the burden of the day;Thy task is ended, venerable Grey!No more shall Art thy dexterous hand require,To break the sleep of elemental fire;To rouse the power that actuates Nature's frame,The momentaneous shock, the electric flame;The flame which first, weak pupil to thy lore,I saw, condemn'd, alas! to see no more. Now, hoary sage! pursue thy happy flight;With swifter motion, haste to purer light, 10Where Bacon waits, with Newton and with Boyle,To hail thy genius and applaud thy toil;Where intuition breathes through time and space,And mocks Experiment's successive race;Sees tardy Science toil at Nature's laws,And wonders how the effect obscures the cause. Yet not to deep research or happy guess,Is show'd the life of hope, the death of peace;Unbless'd the man whom philosophic rageShall tempt to lose the Christian in the Sage: 20Not Art, but Goodness, pour'd the sacred rayThat cheer'd the parting hours of humble Grey. * * * * * TO MISS HICKMAN,
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