Chronology Entry
Year
1918
Text
O'Neill, Eugene. Beyond the horizon : a play in three acts. (Provincetown, Mass. : 1918).
http://www.bartleby.com/132/11.html.
ROBERT [Mayo]. "No, I oughtn't. You're trying to wish an eye-for-business on me I don't possess. Supposing I was to tell you that it's just Beauty that's calling me, the beauty of the far off and unknown, the mystery and spell of the East, which lures me in the books I've read, the need of the freedom of great wide spaces, the joy of wandering on and on—in quest of the secret which is hidden just over there, beyond the horizon ? Suppose I told you that was the one and only reason for my going ?"
http://www.bartleby.com/132/11.html.
ROBERT [Mayo]. "No, I oughtn't. You're trying to wish an eye-for-business on me I don't possess. Supposing I was to tell you that it's just Beauty that's calling me, the beauty of the far off and unknown, the mystery and spell of the East, which lures me in the books I've read, the need of the freedom of great wide spaces, the joy of wandering on and on—in quest of the secret which is hidden just over there, beyond the horizon ? Suppose I told you that was the one and only reason for my going ?"
Mentioned People (1)
O'Neill, Eugene
(New York, N.Y. 1888-1953 Kap Cod bei Boston) : Dramatiker, Nobelpreisträger
Subjects
Literature : Occident : United States of America