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Pygmalion
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  • Pygmalion.†   (source)
  • Now as he sat among the guitarists and watched this awkward girl singing ballads, imitating every inflection of the more experienced singers who had preceded her, the determination entered his mind to play Pygmalion.†   (source)
  • The story of Pygmalion and his statue is as natural as it is poetical.†   (source)
  • Even Pygmalion, when his sculptured woman assumed life, felt not greater ecstasy than mine will be.†   (source)
  • As will be seen later on, Pygmalion needs, not a preface, but a sequel, which I have supplied in its due place.†   (source)
  • I wish to boast that Pygmalion has been an extremely successful play all over Europe and North America as well as at home.†   (source)
  • Galatea never does quite like Pygmalion: his relation to her is too godlike to be altogether agreeable.†   (source)
  • Pygmalion Higgins is not a portrait of Sweet, to whom the adventure of Eliza Doolittle would have been impossible; still, as will be seen, there are touches of Sweet in the play.†   (source)
  • PYGMALION BERNARD SHAW 1912 TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: In the printed version of this text, all apostrophes for contractions such as "can't", "wouldn't" and "he'd" were omitted, to read as "cant", "wouldnt", and "hed".†   (source)
  • Put that along with her resentment of Higgins's domineering superiority, and her mistrust of his coaxing cleverness in getting round her and evading her wrath when he had gone too far with his impetuous bullying, and you will see that Eliza's instinct had good grounds for warning her not to marry her Pygmalion.†   (source)
  • PREFACE TO PYGMALION.†   (source)
  • This is the secret of her birth: a Gothic Pygmalion, who was making gargoyles for cathedrals, fell in love with one of them, the most horrible, one fine morning.†   (source)
  • Suppose she did Pygmalion and Galatea what would she say first?†   (source)
  • The sensation produced in London when George Bernard Shaw put it into the mouth of a woman character in his play, "Pygmalion," will be remembered.†   (source)
  • A lofty city by my hands is rais'd, Pygmalion punish'd, and my lord appeas'd.†   (source)
  • They seize a fleet, which ready rigg'd they find; Nor is Pygmalion's treasure left behind.†   (source)
  • Her father gave her, yet a spotless maid; Pygmalion then the Tyrian scepter sway'd: One who condemn'd divine and human laws.†   (source)
  • Pygmalion? not though he aye forge and beat, Or grave or painte: for I dare well sayn, Apelles, Zeuxis, shoulde work in vain, Either to grave, or paint, or forge, or beat, If they presumed me to counterfeit.†   (source)
  • What, is there none of Pygmalion's images, newly made woman, to be had now, for putting the hand in the pocket and extracting it clutched?†   (source)
  • Must I attend Pygmalion's cruelty, Or till Hyarba shall in triumph lead A queen that proudly scorn'd his proffer'd bed?†   (source)
  • This little spot of land, which Heav'n bestows, On ev'ry side is hemm'd with warlike foes; Gaetulian cities here are spread around, And fierce Numidians there your frontiers bound; Here lies a barren waste of thirsty land, And there the Syrtes raise the moving sand; Barcaean troops besiege the narrow shore, And from the sea Pygmalion threatens more.†   (source)
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