"Their Majesties' Servants": Annals of the English Stage, from Thomas Betterton to Edmund Kean, Band 2Scholarly Press, 1865 - 422 Seiten |
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... voice that was almost unmanageable for its harshness . Margaret and Garrick were very soon on very intimate terms . In the summer of 1742 , they were together in Dublin , and on their return , according to a tradition of the stage ...
... voice that was almost unmanageable for its harshness . Margaret and Garrick were very soon on very intimate terms . In the summer of 1742 , they were together in Dublin , and on their return , according to a tradition of the stage ...
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... voice unfitted her for tragic parts . She called it her " bad voice ! " Margaret Woffington's independence was one of the great traits in her character . About six years before Mrs. Cibber 1 * MARGARET WOFFINGTON . 9.
... voice unfitted her for tragic parts . She called it her " bad voice ! " Margaret Woffington's independence was one of the great traits in her character . About six years before Mrs. Cibber 1 * MARGARET WOFFINGTON . 9.
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... any the town had seen since Mrs. Oldfield's time ; adding , that she pronounced well , and spoke sensibly ; but that her voice was not agreeable , and that her arms were ungainly . Of her Maria 10 DORAN'S ANNALS OF THE STAGE .
... any the town had seen since Mrs. Oldfield's time ; adding , that she pronounced well , and spoke sensibly ; but that her voice was not agreeable , and that her arms were ungainly . Of her Maria 10 DORAN'S ANNALS OF THE STAGE .
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... voice . Almost the only unkind act that can be laid to Mrs. Woflington's charge , was her consequent attempt to induce Rich not to enter into an engagement with Wilkinson . Her scorn drove the unfortunate young gentleman , for his story ...
... voice . Almost the only unkind act that can be laid to Mrs. Woflington's charge , was her consequent attempt to induce Rich not to enter into an engagement with Wilkinson . Her scorn drove the unfortunate young gentleman , for his story ...
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... voice , and action , so like to the incomparable Doggett himself , that the house was in an uproar of delight and perplexity , delight at beholding their favorite , and perplexity as to how it could pos- sibly be he . For there sat ...
... voice , and action , so like to the incomparable Doggett himself , that the house was in an uproar of delight and perplexity , delight at beholding their favorite , and perplexity as to how it could pos- sibly be he . For there sat ...
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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 lived London looked Lord Macbeth Macklin manager Margaret Woffington married Miss Farren Miss Pope Mossop never night once original Othello piece played player poet poor Prince Pritchard prologue Quin remarked rendered Richard says scene season Shakspeare Shakspeare's Sheridan Shylock Siddons Spranger Barry stage success theatre theatrical Theophilus Cibber thought took town tragedy triumph voice Walpole wife Woffington Woodward writes Yates young
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.