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The Sorcerer: Act I

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

Sir Marmaduke Pointdextre, an Elderly Baronet

Alexis, of the Grenadier Guards--His Son

Dr. Daly, Vicar of Ploverleigh

John Wellington Wells, of J. W. Wells & Co., Family Sorcerers

Lady Sangazure, a Lady of Ancient Lineage

Aline, Her Daughter--betrothed to Alexis

Mrs. Partlet, a Pew-Opener

Constance, her Daughter

Chorus of Villagers

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poem by William Schwenck Gilbert
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The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.

quote by Edith Wharton
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I've gradually risen from lower-class background to lower-class foreground.

quote by Marvin Cohen
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It's their story, and I got to be the guy in the back while they were in the foreground.

quote by Geoffrey Rush
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Investigations during the last few decades have brought hydrogen instead of carbon, and instead of CO2 water, the mother of all life, into the foreground.

quote by Albert Szent Gyorgyi
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There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that tends to diminish, but it's certainly present in the early work.

quote by Chaim Potok
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When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me.

quote by Brian Eno
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From A Diary

8th June:
wind lashes
an oak
in the
foreground
of dark grey
clouds

an old crow
labours against
the gusts

winter like-
except
for the warmth
of a crazy wind

poem by Liam ó Comáin
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I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom.

quote by Wislawa Szymborska
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The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

quote by Raymond Chandler
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