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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... master of a company of itinerant comedians , relative to Love - a - la - Mode - receives a fatisfactory an- fwer - and returns to London . P. 30 . - CHAP . III . MR . MACKLIN refolves to perform at Leeds and Liverpool - goes to Dublin ...
... master of a company of itinerant comedians , relative to Love - a - la - Mode - receives a fatisfactory an- fwer - and returns to London . P. 30 . - CHAP . III . MR . MACKLIN refolves to perform at Leeds and Liverpool - goes to Dublin ...
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... master - Mr . Dunning's speech on behalf of Mr. Macklin - the confpirators refuse to go before the master - the court threaten to commit the defendants - the matter is pro- posed to be referred to Mr. Colman - he declines it- the ...
... master - Mr . Dunning's speech on behalf of Mr. Macklin - the confpirators refuse to go before the master - the court threaten to commit the defendants - the matter is pro- posed to be referred to Mr. Colman - he declines it- the ...
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... Master of a Company of Itinerant Comedians , ( No. 1. ) " Sir , " As you are the perfon who prefides over " and manages one of the itinerant Companies " of Comedians , that have given me cause of complaint , by their having acted my ...
... Master of a Company of Itinerant Comedians , ( No. 1. ) " Sir , " As you are the perfon who prefides over " and manages one of the itinerant Companies " of Comedians , that have given me cause of complaint , by their having acted my ...
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... master of your subject , " and of your art , but of the human foul : for " as you proceed , or , rather , as your Actors " work , they make us fear , love , hate , dread , " in obedience to their own motions , and thus truly moralize ...
... master of your subject , " and of your art , but of the human foul : for " as you proceed , or , rather , as your Actors " work , they make us fear , love , hate , dread , " in obedience to their own motions , and thus truly moralize ...
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... Master of the House , I will pay the reckoning when I come back ' - This man was in the Pit . Leigh faid , in the Play- house , and before he went to it , that Macklin fhould go down upon his knees , and beg his brother's pardon , or ...
... Master of the House , I will pay the reckoning when I come back ' - This man was in the Pit . Leigh faid , in the Play- house , and before he went to it , that Macklin fhould go down upon his knees , and beg his brother's pardon , or ...
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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.