The Life and Times of that Excellent and Renowned Actor Thomas Betterton ...: With Such Notices of the Stage and English History, Before and After the Restoration, as Serve Generally to Illustrate the SubjectReader, 1888 - 160 Seiten |
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Seite 108 - All this ? ay, more: Fret, till your proud heart break; Go, show your slaves how choleric you are, And make your bondmen tremble.
Seite 133 - My name hath fetched you conquest : and my heart And limbs are still the same ; my will as great To do you service.
Seite 137 - ... had been unnatural, nay, impossible, in Othello's circumstances. The charming passage in the same tragedy, where he tells the manner of winning the affection of his mistress, was urged with so moving and graceful an energy, that, while I walked in the cloisters...
Seite 140 - Act where his father's ghost appears, through the violent and sudden emotion of amazement and horror, turn instantly, on the sight of his father's spirit, as pale as his neckcloth ; when his whole body seemed to be affected with a tremor inexpressible, so that, had his father's ghost actually risen before him, he could not have been seized with more real agonies. And this was felt so strongly by the audience that the blood seemed to shudder in their veins likewise ; and they in some measure partook...
Seite 138 - His wife, after a cohabitation of forty years in the strictest amity, has long pined away with a sense of his decay, as well in his person as his little fortune ; and, in proportion to that, she has herself decayed both in her health and reason. Her husband's death, added to her age and infirmities, would certainly have determined her life, but that the greatness of her distress has been her relief, by a present deprivation of her senses.
Seite 139 - I have hardly a notion that any performer of antiquity could surpass the action of Mr. Betterton in any of the occasions in which he has appeared on our stage. The wonderful agony which he appeared in when he examined the circumstance of the handkerchief in Othello ; the mixture of love that intruded upon his mind upon the innocent answers Desdemona makes, betrayed in his gesture such a variety and vicissitude of passions as would admonish a man to be afraid of his own heart, and perfectly convince...
Seite 130 - Of matrons' wrongs and captive virgins' tears, He feels soft Pity urge his gen'rous breast, And vows once more to succour the distress'd. Buckled in mail he sallies on the plain, And turns him to the feats of arms again. So we to former Leagues of Friendship true, Have bid once more our peaceful homes adieu To aid Old THOMAS, and to pleasure you. Like Errant Damsels boldly we engage, Arm'd, as you see, for the defenceless stage.
Seite 136 - Desdemona makes, betrayed in his gesture such a variety and vicissitude of passions, as would admonish a man to be afraid of his own heart ; and perfectly convince him, that it is to stab it, to admit that worst of daggers, Jealousy.
Seite 136 - There is no human invention so aptly calculated for the forming a free-born people as that of a theatre. Tully reports, that the celebrated player, of whom I am speaking, used frequently to say, ' The perfection of an actor is only to become what he is doing.
Seite 41 - AB, his executors, administrators, and assigns, that these our letters patent, or the enrolment or exemplification thereof, shall be in and by all things good, firm, valid, sufficient, and effectual in the law, according to the true intent and meaning thereof...