The Life of David Garrick: From Original Family Papers, and Numerous Published and Unpublished Sources, Volumen2Tinsley brothers, 1868 |
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... kind . There is an excitement with a security and immunity , not to be found so cheaply anywhere else . " The Two Gentlemen of Verona " was being played , with some alterations by Victor , and had reached its tenth night , when it was ...
... kind . There is an excitement with a security and immunity , not to be found so cheaply anywhere else . " The Two Gentlemen of Verona " was being played , with some alterations by Victor , and had reached its tenth night , when it was ...
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... kind of transport . My good friend , as you are stout , be merciful . " * The Duke was eager to welcome his two friends . " Remember to come by Derby and Matlock . If you lie at Derby you may , with great ease , be with me by dinner ...
... kind of transport . My good friend , as you are stout , be merciful . " * The Duke was eager to welcome his two friends . " Remember to come by Derby and Matlock . If you lie at Derby you may , with great ease , be with me by dinner ...
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... at this visit , and is circumstantial about " Quin's kind inquiry , after dinner , " about Mrs. Garrick , which was the cause . But they had been reconciled before . BOOK THE FIFTH . ACTOR AND TRAVELLER . CHAPTER I. 1763. ] 47 FITZPATRICK .
... at this visit , and is circumstantial about " Quin's kind inquiry , after dinner , " about Mrs. Garrick , which was the cause . But they had been reconciled before . BOOK THE FIFTH . ACTOR AND TRAVELLER . CHAPTER I. 1763. ] 47 FITZPATRICK .
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... kind of irregularity in his pauses , which seriously interfered with the sense . paternal rage ; such a perceptible yet rapid gradation from these dreadful feelings to the deepest frenzy . . . . with such an exact attention to propriety ...
... kind of irregularity in his pauses , which seriously interfered with the sense . paternal rage ; such a perceptible yet rapid gradation from these dreadful feelings to the deepest frenzy . . . . with such an exact attention to propriety ...
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... kind of soft languishing strain , but without the least relief or expression : " How strange a captive I am grown of late ; Shall I my love accuse or blame my fate ! " And everybody knew Hale , the official lover of the stage . * Then ...
... kind of soft languishing strain , but without the least relief or expression : " How strange a captive I am grown of late ; Shall I my love accuse or blame my fate ! " And everybody knew Hale , the official lover of the stage . * Then ...
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Página 418 - Biron they call him; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest...
Página 404 - As an actor, confess'd without rival to shine ; As a wit, if not first, in the very first line : Yet, with talents like these, and an excellent heart, The man had his failings, a dupe to his art. Like an ill-judging beauty, his colours he spread, And beplaster'd with rouge his own natural red. On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting ; 'Twas only that when he was off he was acting.
Página 159 - Farewell, great painter of mankind ! Who reach'd the noblest point of art, Whose pictured morals charm the mind, And through the eye correct the heart. If Genius fire thee, reader, stay, If nature touch thee, drop a tear, If neither move thee — turn away — For Hogarth's honour'd dust lies here.
Página 360 - Here, Hermes, says Jove, who with nectar was mellow, Go fetch me some clay— I will make an odd fellow: Right and wrong shall be jumbled, much gold and some dross, Without cause be he...
Página 308 - In expressing slowness of apprehension, this actor surpassed all others. You could see the first dawn of an idea stealing slowly over his countenance, climbing up by little and little, with a painful process, till it cleared up at last to the fulness of a twilight conception — its highest meridian.
Página 360 - I'll bestow it. This scholar, rake, Christian, dupe, gamester, and poet ; Though a mixture so odd, he shall merit great fame, And among brother mortals — be GOLDSMITH his name : When on earth this strange meteor no more shall appear, You, Hermes, shall fetch him to make us sport here.
Página 110 - Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer; ' Why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure if I had seen a ghost, I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did.
Página 110 - And if it was really a ghost, it could do one no harm at such a distance, and in so much company ; and yet if I was frightened, I am not the only person.
Página 404 - Here lies David Garrick, describe me who can, An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man ; As an actor, confest without rival to shine; As a wit, if not first, in the very first line : Yet, with talents like these, and an excellent heart, The man had his failings, a dupe to his art.
Página 404 - But peace to his spirit, wherever it flies, To act as an angel and mix with the skies : Those poets, who owe their best fame to his skill, Shall still be his flatterers, go where he will : Old...