"Their Majesties' Servants": Annals of the English Stage from Thomas Betterton to Edmund KeanNimmo, 1888 - 1278 Seiten |
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... better taste . The wits of the town found excellent sport in inter- rupting the debaters , and few were more active in this way than Foote . " Do you know what I am going to say ? " asked Macklin . " No , " said Foote , " do you ...
... better taste . The wits of the town found excellent sport in inter- rupting the debaters , and few were more active in this way than Foote . " Do you know what I am going to say ? " asked Macklin . " No , " said Foote , " do you ...
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... better than Peg Woffington's , became perfectly musical by her power of modula- tion . Every word was pronounced with a clearness that made her audible in the remotest parts of the theatre , and this was a charm of itself in such parts ...
... better than Peg Woffington's , became perfectly musical by her power of modula- tion . Every word was pronounced with a clearness that made her audible in the remotest parts of the theatre , and this was a charm of itself in such parts ...
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... better than she could Lady Modish , who was a lady by birth and education . But even in the latter character she is described as having been the accomplished and well - bred woman of fashion . Her intercourse with ladies of rank , an ...
... better than she could Lady Modish , who was a lady by birth and education . But even in the latter character she is described as having been the accomplished and well - bred woman of fashion . Her intercourse with ladies of rank , an ...
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... better taste than hers in costume . On the 3d of December 1779 their Majesties ' ser- vants played , by command , at Drury Lane , the " Win- ter's Tale , " for the sixth time . Gentleman Smith was Leontes ; Bensley , Polixenes ...
... better taste than hers in costume . On the 3d of December 1779 their Majesties ' ser- vants played , by command , at Drury Lane , the " Win- ter's Tale , " for the sixth time . Gentleman Smith was Leontes ; Bensley , Polixenes ...
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... easy fortune " com- plained bitterly of his forced association with the low people who thronged the gallery . Poor Reddish ! he was moved to better air , improved diet , and less plebeian society , -in the Asylum at York . The.
... easy fortune " com- plained bitterly of his forced association with the low people who thronged the gallery . Poor Reddish ! he was moved to better air , improved diet , and less plebeian society , -in the Asylum at York . The.
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Seite 88 - ... 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 274 - 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 170 - She is a good figure, handsome enough, though neither nose nor chin according to the Greek standard, beyond which both advance a good deal. Her hair is either red, or she has no objection to its being thought so, and had used red powder. Her voice is clear and good ; but I thought she did not vary its modulations enough, nor ever approach enough to the familiar; but this may come when more habituated to the awe of the audience of the capital. Her action is proper, but with little variety ; when without...
Seite 294 - Keen, the father of twenty children; and that this day the haughty George Powell hopes all the good-natured part of the town will favour him, whom they applauded in Alexander, Timon, Lear, and Orestes, with their company this night, when he hazards all his heroic glory for their approbation in the humbler condition of honest Jack Falstaff.
Seite 284 - ... tis what I prize so well that I ne'er pawned it yet, and hope I ne'er shall part with it. Nature and fortune were certainly in league when you were born ; and as the first took care to give you beauty enough to enslave the hearts of all the world, so the other resolved, to do its merit justice, that none but a monarch, fit to rule that world, should e'er possess it; and in it he had an empire. The young prince 1 you have given him, by his blooming virtues, early declares the mighty stock he came...
Seite 161 - My father, my husband, and myself, sat down to a frugal neat supper, in a silence uninterrupted, except by exclamations of gladness from Mr Siddons. My father enjoyed his refreshments ; but occasionally stopped short, and, laying down his knife and fork, lifting up his venerable face, and throwing back his silver hair, gave way to tears of happiness.
Seite 29 - I have stood firm for the corps, into which I enrolled myself, and never disgraced my colours by abandoning the cause of the legitimate comedy, to whose service I am sworn, and in whose defence I have kept the field for nearly half a century, till at last I, have survived all true national taste, and lived to see buffoonery, spectacle and puerility so effectually triumph, that now to be repulsed from the stage is to be recommended to the closet, and to be applauded by the theatre is little else than...
Seite 174 - she did not look on them as female characters. ' ' She was questioned about her transactions with Garrick : she said, " He did nothing but put her out ; that he told her she moved her right hand when it should have been her left. — In short," said she, " I found I must not shade the tip of his nose.