 | 1766 - 128 Seiten
...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....you tell the gentleman whether you will meet him or not?" In March 1748 happened the dreadful fire in Cornhill, which gave Mr. Quin an opportunity of displaying... | |
 | Thomas Davies - 1781 - 556 Seiten
...make it appear abfolutely ludicrous. He paufed fo long before he fpoke, that fomebody, it was faid, called out from the gallery " Why don't you tell the gentleman whether you will meet him or not ? When the fame actors came on the ftage in Jane Shore, Haftings is fo vifibly fuperior in every... | |
 | 1781 - 732 Seiten
...make it appear abfolutely ludicrous. He paufed fo long before he fpoke, that fomebody, it was faid, called out from the gallery, " Why don't you tell the gentleman whether you will meet him or rôti" The fuccefs of the Lying Valet and Lethe induced Mr. Garrick to try his fortune once more as... | |
 | Thomas Davies - 1818 - 262 Seiten
...brow of superiour 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. He paused so long before he s;mke, that lomebody, it was said, called out from the gallery, " Wby don't you tell the gentleman... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1836 - 274 Seiten
...words, « I'll meet thee here." He paused so long before he spoke, that some impatient person honestly called out from the gallery, " Why don't you tell the gentleman whether you will meet him or not!" But Quin, notwithstanding his pauses, was distinguished for giving full sway to the language... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1836 - 276 Seiten
...thee here." He paused so long before he spoke, that some impatient person honestly called out ftom the gallery, " Why don't you tell the gentleman whether you will meet him or notr But Quin, notwithstanding his pauses, was distinguished for giving full sway to the language and... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1848 - 334 Seiten
...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....you tell the gentleman whether you will meet him or not?'" we suspect his comedy must have been finer ; because his own nature was one of greater sprightliness... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1848 - 348 Seiten
...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....you tell the gentleman whether you will meet him or not?'" we suspect his comedy must have been finer ; because his own nature was one of greater sprightliness... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 478 Seiten
...impudence as well as genius, excelled in "Brass; " and Churchill's opinions are worth attending to, paused so long before he spoke, that somebody, it...gallery, ' Why don't you tell the gentleman whether yon will meet him or not ?'" * Davis's Miscellanies, ut supra, vol. i., p. 126. though he expresses... | |
 | Dr. Doran (John) - 1865 - 446 Seiten
...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."...who gives us so lively a picture of the principal actors in this piece, as Cumberland, who tells us that " Quin presented himself, upon the rising of... | |
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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... 
