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These people on the stage at Ober-Ammergau are not lay figures, mere abstract representations of the virtues or the opposite.
King of the Jews A story of Christ's last days on Earth William T. Stead
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Protestant dramatic critic in the theater of Ober-Ammergau, let him look with dry eyes if he can upon the leave-taking at Bethany, and then as the universal sob rises from thousands of gazers, he will realize perhaps for the first time how intense is the passion of sympathy which they have sealed up, how powerful the emotion to which they are forbidden to appeal.
King of the Jews A story of Christ's last days on Earth William T. Stead
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Be that as it may, I shall always owe a debt of gratitude to Ober-Ammergau, and as long as memory lasts shall remember _Die Kreuzesschule_.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 Various
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Had he been a German, living in Ober-Ammergau, he would certainly have been chosen for the chief character in the play -- a play, by the way, that has always seemed questionable, since the greatest and most momentous Drama creation ever witnessed appears too sacred a theme to be theatrically represented, even in a spirit of devotion.
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I awoke shortly after midnight, after seeing the Passion Play at Ober-Ammergau, with these words floating backward and forward in my head like a peal of bells from some distant spire.
King of the Jews A story of Christ's last days on Earth William T. Stead
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Similar scenes are also witnessed by curious foreigners at the present day in the Ober-Ammergau of
English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee
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Written by Mr. Stead at Ober-Ammergau the night after witnessing the performance of the Passion Play.
King of the Jews A story of Christ's last days on Earth William T. Stead
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Moreover, the village of Ober-Ammergau proposes once more to have its religious fête and stage the "Life of Christ."
Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921 Stephen Graham 1929
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If the Mass is to be something more than an Ober-Ammergau Passion
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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I have been in a quiet little country place since coming from Ober-Ammergau, and know no one.
Memories of Jane Cunningham Croly Various 1904
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