"Their Majesties' Servants." Annals of the English Stage: From Thomas Betterton to Edmund KeanJohn C. Nimmo, 14, King William Street, Strand, 1888 - 1278 Seiten |
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Seite 242 - For physic and farces his equal there scarce is— His farces are physic, his physic a farce is.
Seite 213 - Resolved, &c., nemine contradicente, that in all aids given to the king by the Commons the rate or tax ought not to be altered by the Lords.
Seite 14 - twould a saint provoke," (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke ;} " No, let a charming chintz and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead — And — Betty — give this cheek a little red.
Seite 271 - ild you! They say the owl was a baker's daughter. Lord! we know what we are, but know not what we may be.
Seite 176 - Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line, which dying he could wish to blot.
Seite 133 - so terribly well, my lord, that I was afraid I should have lost all my actors ; for I was not sure the King would not keep them to fill the place at Court, which he saw them so fit for in the play.
Seite 61 - Stage, a Catastrophe too recent, too melancholy, and of too solemn a Nature, to be heard of any where but from the Pulpit.
Seite 362 - I perceived something of the sort before, and had found her much broken this autumn. It seems, that the day after I saw her, she went to General Lister's burial and got cold, and had been ill for two or three days. On the Wednesday morning she rose to have her bed made; and while sitting on the bed, with her maid by her, sunk down at once, and died without a pang or a groan.
Seite 127 - I would undertake to find out all the persons of sense and breeding by the effect of a single sentence, and to distinguish a gentleman as much by his laugh as his bow. When we see the footman and his lord diverted by the same jest, it very much turns to the diminution of the one, or the honour of the other. But...
Seite 77 - Town," in which Mrs. Clive mimics the Muscovita admirably, and Beard, Amorevoli tolerably. But all the run is now after Garrick, a wine-merchant, who is turned player, at Goodman's fields. He plays all parts, and is a very good mimic. His acting I have seen, and may say to you, who will not tell it again here, I see nothing wonderful in it ; but it is heresy to say so : the Duke of Argyll says, he is superior to Betterton.