"Their Majesties' Servants": Annals of the English Stage, from Thomas Betterton to Edmund Kean, Band 2Scholarly Press, 1865 - 422 Seiten |
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... father was a working bricklayer , and married the mother when she was as hard - working a laundress . There is another child in this poor household , a sister of the water - bearer , fair , but less fair than she . When Madame Violante ...
... father was a working bricklayer , and married the mother when she was as hard - working a laundress . There is another child in this poor household , a sister of the water - bearer , fair , but less fair than she . When Madame Violante ...
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... his lady up- etairs , —she was of a cavalier family , and had the blood of William of Wyckham in her veins , -presented him with a living figure , the counterfeit presentinent of its father . The child thus born COLLEY CIBBER . 15.
... his lady up- etairs , —she was of a cavalier family , and had the blood of William of Wyckham in her veins , -presented him with a living figure , the counterfeit presentinent of its father . The child thus born COLLEY CIBBER . 15.
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... father . The child thus born , as it were , with the London Monument , was named Colley Cibber . How Colley fared at school , stood his own ground , and was envied by the dunces he beat , in a double sense , -how he was de- termined to ...
... father . The child thus born , as it were , with the London Monument , was named Colley Cibber . How Colley fared at school , stood his own ground , and was envied by the dunces he beat , in a double sense , -how he was de- termined to ...
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... father's roof , and an ardent desire that he might one day play lover to Mrs. Brace- girdle . When the ambitious young fellow had induced his sire to allow him £ 20 a year , in addition to the £ 1 a week which he then gained on the ...
... father's roof , and an ardent desire that he might one day play lover to Mrs. Brace- girdle . When the ambitious young fellow had induced his sire to allow him £ 20 a year , in addition to the £ 1 a week which he then gained on the ...
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... father , who was otherwise of a benevolent disposition ; and friendless , she fought a series of battles with the world , and came off in all more and more damaged . She starved with strollers , failed as a grocer in Long Acre , became ...
... father , who was otherwise of a benevolent disposition ; and friendless , she fought a series of battles with the world , and came off in all more and more damaged . She starved with strollers , failed as a grocer in Long Acre , became ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 34 - For physic and farces his equal there scarce is— His farces are physic, his physic a farce is.
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 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 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 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 316 - The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, the important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome.
Seite 133 - Among the fairest of Foote's sayings was the reply to Mr. Howard's intimation that he was about to publish a second edition of his Thoughts and Maxims. " Ay ! second thoughts are best." Fair, too, was his retort on the person who alluded to his "game leg.
Seite 80 - Horatio — heavens, what a transition! — it seemed as if a whole century had been swept over in the transition of a single scene; old things were done away and a new order at once brought forward, bright and luminous, and clearly destined to dispel the barbarisms and bigotry of a...
Seite 357 - Wide o'er this breathing world, a Garrick came. Though sunk in death the forms the Poet drew, The Actor's genius bade them breathe anew ; Though, like the bard himself, in night they lay, Immortal Garrick call'd them back to day : And till Eternity with power sublime Shall mark the mortal hour of hoary Time, Shakspeare and Garrick like twin stars shall shine, And earth irradiate with a beam divine." It would be an insult to my readers' understandings to attempt any thing like a criticism on this...
Seite 228 - Form'd gen'ral notions from the rascal few ; Condemn'da people, as for vices known, Which, from their country banish'd, seek our own. At length, howe'er, the slavish chain is broke, And Sense, awaken'd, scorns her ancient yoke : Taught by thee, Moody, we now learn to raise Mirth from their foibles ; from their virtues, praise.