"Their Majesties' Servants": Annals of the English Stage, from Thomas Betterton to Edmund Kean, Band 2Scholarly Press, 1865 - 422 Seiten |
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... thing be composed half a century later , when poet - laureate , they ostracized the bard whom they could not equal in song . Colley was satisfied with his glory , and treated his young adversaries with all the mingled good - nature and ...
... thing be composed half a century later , when poet - laureate , they ostracized the bard whom they could not equal in song . Colley was satisfied with his glory , and treated his young adversaries with all the mingled good - nature and ...
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... thing , and who was always sure of accomplishing whatever he undertook . " It would be too rank an affectation , " he writes , " if I should not confess that to see him there , a witness of my reception , was to me as consummate a ...
... thing , and who was always sure of accomplishing whatever he undertook . " It would be too rank an affectation , " he writes , " if I should not confess that to see him there , a witness of my reception , was to me as consummate a ...
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... things come under notice , they are treated as people of decency would treat them , often gracefully , never alluringly . The incidents , told rather than acted , are painted , if I may so speak , with the consummate skill , ease , and ...
... things come under notice , they are treated as people of decency would treat them , often gracefully , never alluringly . The incidents , told rather than acted , are painted , if I may so speak , with the consummate skill , ease , and ...
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... things . By the last , he once saved ten shillings a week of his salary . Rich announced the intended reduction to him , with the remark , that even then he would have as much as Goodman ever had , -whose highest salary was forty ...
... things . By the last , he once saved ten shillings a week of his salary . Rich announced the intended reduction to him , with the remark , that even then he would have as much as Goodman ever had , -whose highest salary was forty ...
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... a majority of auditors , you know , are generally composed of babblers , that are profuse of their voices , before there is any thing on foot that calls for them . Not , but I grant , to lead , or mislead , the many COLLEY CIBBER . 23.
... a majority of auditors , you know , are generally composed of babblers , that are profuse of their voices , before there is any thing on foot that calls for them . Not , but I grant , to lead , or mislead , the many COLLEY CIBBER . 23.
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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.