The Life of David Garrick: From Original Family Papers, and Numerous Published and Unpublished Sources, Volumen2Tinsley brothers, 1868 |
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... lady . Yet at the present day , Bride is a name about the least known to those , who take interest in the stage . The whole is delightful reading . The sound of these terse close couplets , as full of meaning as of good English , is ...
... lady . Yet at the present day , Bride is a name about the least known to those , who take interest in the stage . The whole is delightful reading . The sound of these terse close couplets , as full of meaning as of good English , is ...
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... lady and gentleman mentioned , " - adding that " the lady's principles , and religion are well known . " Bower did not let this pass . " Now that foreigners , " he said , " may not think that I dare not show my face at the house of any ...
... lady and gentleman mentioned , " - adding that " the lady's principles , and religion are well known . " Bower did not let this pass . " Now that foreigners , " he said , " may not think that I dare not show my face at the house of any ...
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... ladies were usually attended by pages , even in their most intimate and domestic scenes , who never let down the sumptuous trains of their mistresses . There could be none , therefore , of that " crossing " and recrossing which make up ...
... ladies were usually attended by pages , even in their most intimate and domestic scenes , who never let down the sumptuous trains of their mistresses . There could be none , therefore , of that " crossing " and recrossing which make up ...
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... ladies of quality , were used again and again . There was no fitness of character attempted ; all that was required was that they should be " fine , " or as fine as stripes of tawdry tinsel could make them . This all came of the ...
... ladies of quality , were used again and again . There was no fitness of character attempted ; all that was required was that they should be " fine , " or as fine as stripes of tawdry tinsel could make them . This all came of the ...
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... ladies to send their footmen before the play began , dressed up in gaudy liveries , who sat in the best places , for two or three acts , and thus kept the places . This was an incongruous sight enough ; as ladies of the first rank often ...
... ladies to send their footmen before the play began , dressed up in gaudy liveries , who sat in the best places , for two or three acts , and thus kept the places . This was an incongruous sight enough ; as ladies of the first rank often ...
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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...