"Their Majesties' Servants.": Annals of the English Stage, from Thomas Betterton to Edmund Kean, Band 2D. McKay, 1890 |
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... audience with a " now then ! ” sort of look . She expressed her willingness to perform her duty , but it was for them to decide : " On or off ; it must be as you please ; to me it is a matter of perfect indifference ! " The audi ence ...
... audience with a " now then ! ” sort of look . She expressed her willingness to perform her duty , but it was for them to decide : " On or off ; it must be as you please ; to me it is a matter of perfect indifference ! " The audi ence ...
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... audience . He avows , gracefully enough , that his want of a strong and full voice soon cut short his hopes of making any figure in tragedy . He adds , with some conceit , and more affected modesty , " I have been many years since ...
... audience . He avows , gracefully enough , that his want of a strong and full voice soon cut short his hopes of making any figure in tragedy . He adds , with some conceit , and more affected modesty , " I have been many years since ...
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... audience . In the casting of a play , Colley was contented to take any part left to him , after the other great men had picked , chosen , rejected , and settled for themselves ; and a couple of subordinate characters in the " Pil- grim ...
... audience . In the casting of a play , Colley was contented to take any part left to him , after the other great men had picked , chosen , rejected , and settled for themselves ; and a couple of subordinate characters in the " Pil- grim ...
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... audience should mistake the counterfeit for the real character . But if people thought Cibber vicious because he played a vicious fellow to the life , he took it as a compliment . His voice was certainly too weak and piping for tragedy ...
... audience should mistake the counterfeit for the real character . But if people thought Cibber vicious because he played a vicious fellow to the life , he took it as a compliment . His voice was certainly too weak and piping for tragedy ...
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... audience demanded it , the latter , in inconceivable rage , pulled the interior of the house to pieces , destroyed all the proper- ties they could reach , broke up the wooden fittings , and flinging the box - doors upon them , set fire ...
... audience demanded it , the latter , in inconceivable rage , pulled the interior of the house to pieces , destroyed all the proper- ties they could reach , broke up the wooden fittings , and flinging the box - doors upon them , set fire ...
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acted actor actress admiration appearance applause audience Bannister Barry beauty benefit Betterton called century character Charles Kemble Cibber Clive Colley Colley Cibber Colman comedy comic Cooke Coriolanus Covent Garden critics daughter dramatic dress Drury Lane Dublin Duke Edmund Kean Elliston Falstaff father followed Foote Foote's fortune friends Garrick gave gentleman George graceful Hamlet Harlequin Haymarket heart Henderson hissed honor humor husband Iago Irish Jane Shore John Kemble Kemble's King Kitty Clive Lady latter laughed Lewis Lincoln's Inn Fields London looked Lord Macbeth Macklin Macready manager Margaret Woffington married Miss Farren Miss Pope Mossop never night once original Othello performance piece played player poet poor Prince Pritchard prologue Quin remarked rendered Richard says scene season Shakspeare Sheridan Shylock Siddons Spranger Barry stage success theatre theatrical Theophilus Cibber thought took town tragedy triumph voice Walpole wife Woffington Woodward writes Yates young
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Seite 199 - ... his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form ; Then have I reason to be fond of grief. Fare you well : had you such a loss as I, I could give better comfort than you do. I will not keep this form upon my head, When there is such disorder in my wit. O Lord ! my boy, my Arthur, my fair son ! My life, my joy, my food, my all the world ! My widow-comfort, and my sorrows
Seite 135 - Sincerity, Thou first of virtues! let no mortal leave Thy onward path, although the earth should gape, And from the gulf of hell destruction cry, To take dissimulation's winding way.
Seite 53 - 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 134 - He expressed himself to the same purpose concerning another law-lord 2, who, it seems, once took a fancy to associate with the wits of London ; but with so little success, that Foote said, " What can he mean by coming among us ? He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others.
Seite 254 - she did not look on them as female characters. ' ' She was questioned about her transactions with Garrick : she said, " He did nothing but put her out ; that he told her she moved her right hand when it should have been her left. — In short," said she, " I found I must not shade the tip of his nose.
Seite 245 - My father, my husband, and myself, sat down to a frugal neat supper, in a silence uninterrupted, except by exclamations of gladness from Mr Siddons. My father enjoyed his refreshments ; but occasionally stopped short, and, laying down his knife and fork, lifting up his venerable face, and throwing back his silver hair, gave way to tears of happiness.
Seite 177 - The Miniature Picture,' which she acted herself with a genteel set at her own house in the country, has been played at Drury Lane. The chief singularity was that she went to it herself the second night, in form ; sat 1 Compare vol.
Seite 251 - All Mrs. Siddons did, good sense or good instruction might give. I dare to say, that were I one-and-twenty, I should have thought her marvellous ; but alas ! I remember Mrs. Porter and the Dumesnil — and remember every accent of the former in the very same part.
Seite 20 - I had rather not suppress, viz. that it was the best first play that any author in his memory had produced ; and that for a young fellow to show himself such an actor and such a writer in one day, was something extraordinary.
Seite 80 - When Lothario gave Horatio the challenge Quin, instead of accepting it instantaneously, with the determined and unembarrassed brow of superior bravery, made a long pause, and dragged out the words, ' I'll meet thee there !' in such a manner as to make it appear absolutely ludicrous.