Memoirs of the Life of Charles Macklin, Esq: Principally Compiled from His Own Papers and Memorandums; which Contain His Criticisms on and Characters and Anecdotes of Betterton, Booth, Wilks and Most of His Contemporaries ... the Whole Forming a Comprehensive But Succinct History of the Stage ...Lackington, Allen and Company, 1799 - 471 Seiten |
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... court threaten to commit the defendants - the matter is pro- posed to be referred to Mr. Colman - he declines it- the defendants are advised to go before the mafter- Mr. Macklin's remarkable speech - the business is set- tled - Lord ...
... court threaten to commit the defendants - the matter is pro- posed to be referred to Mr. Colman - he declines it- the defendants are advised to go before the mafter- Mr. Macklin's remarkable speech - the business is set- tled - Lord ...
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... court of chancery against the patentees of Covent - Garden theatre - an account of Mr. Macklin's chancery fuit - copies of two let- ters written by Mr. Macklin - Mr . Kenyon's ( now Lord Kenyon ) opinion on Macklin's cafe - Mr . Macklin ...
... court of chancery against the patentees of Covent - Garden theatre - an account of Mr. Macklin's chancery fuit - copies of two let- ters written by Mr. Macklin - Mr . Kenyon's ( now Lord Kenyon ) opinion on Macklin's cafe - Mr . Macklin ...
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... Court of Equity would com- pel a specific performance of their agreement , and order Colman and Powell to make Meffrs . Harris and Rutherford fatisfaction for the da- mage they should appear to have fuftained from the breach of it ...
... Court of Equity would com- pel a specific performance of their agreement , and order Colman and Powell to make Meffrs . Harris and Rutherford fatisfaction for the da- mage they should appear to have fuftained from the breach of it ...
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... court of law " I fhall not pretend to fay ; but this I will ob- ferve , refpecting the morality or prudence of " it , that it puts me in mind of many men I " have known heretofore , who have proved " their own roguery , and ruined their ...
... court of law " I fhall not pretend to fay ; but this I will ob- ferve , refpecting the morality or prudence of " it , that it puts me in mind of many men I " have known heretofore , who have proved " their own roguery , and ruined their ...
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... court of law , I " fhall not feek for it there ; because I know it " would bear intolerably hard upon many , who << < c can but very ill afford it . All I defire is , a proper acknowledgment under the hands of " those who have ...
... court of law , I " fhall not feek for it there ; because I know it " would bear intolerably hard upon many , who << < c can but very ill afford it . All I defire is , a proper acknowledgment under the hands of " those who have ...
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Seite 33 - Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and cranks,* and wanton* wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Seite 39 - Number of performers about sixteen or eighteen. The person who provides the Cloaths and Scenes is deemed the Master of the Company, who makes all contracts for rents, etc., and is responsible for all expenses and contingencies of every kind, incidental to the...
Seite 265 - ... a passage which in the records of the theatre, had never been acted, and which on and off the stage must be looked upon as an excrescence of the worst sort...
Seite 258 - This was of no advantage to me. I can fill my house without it; but I meant to give them the popularity of doing a justice to the man they had injured^ and of convincing the public that they would never do the like again, and that they were in amity, and not in enmity, with me. My Lord, I have nothing more to say.
Seite 380 - Talking Talking of the caution necessary to be used in conversation amongst a mixed company, Macklin observed, " Sir, I have experienced, to my cost, that a man, in any situation of life, should never be off his guard — A Scotchman never is ; he never lives a moment extempore, and that is one great reason of their success in life. " In a continuation of the same subject, he used to say, with some feeling of his former imprudence, "It is a long time before men learn the * £j art of neutralizing...
Seite 424 - But you are not afraid to die ? " A. "Not in the least, sir,- — I never did any person any serious mischief in my life: — even when I gambled, I never cheated: — I know that a — a — a — see, now — death, I mean, must come, and I am ready to give it up,
Seite 267 - Latin authors, as often as his me" mory ferved him with the fcraps and mottos " it had quaintly picked up; for he knew no " book of antiquity, nor, indeed, of modern " note, Prior, la Fontaine, Swift's Poetry, and " a few more of that kind excepted ; thefe " he conftantly imitated, plundered, difguifed, " and frittered in occafional prologues, epicc logues, and complimentary poems upon " parrots, lap-dogs, monkies, birds, growing " wits, patrons, and ladies. But what he " moft excelled in, was, in...
Seite 426 - Why, sir, my opinion is, that Mr. Palmer played the character of Shylock in one style. In this scene there was a sameness, in that scene a sameness, and in every scene a sameness : — it was all same ! same I same ! — no variation.