The Life of David Garrick: From Original Family Papers, and Numerous Published and Unpublished Sources, Volumen2Tinsley brothers, 1868 |
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... THING was made to move . When he attempts in some one favourite part To ape the feelings of a manly heart , His honest features the disguise defy , And his face loudly gives his tongue the lie . Can none remember , yes , I know all must ...
... THING was made to move . When he attempts in some one favourite part To ape the feelings of a manly heart , His honest features the disguise defy , And his face loudly gives his tongue the lie . Can none remember , yes , I know all must ...
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... things carried to excess are wrong . The start may be too frequent , pause too long . " Actors , just as monkeys mimic ... thing : - " When reason yields to passion's wild alarms , And the whole state of man is up in arms , What but a ...
... things carried to excess are wrong . The start may be too frequent , pause too long . " Actors , just as monkeys mimic ... thing : - " When reason yields to passion's wild alarms , And the whole state of man is up in arms , What but a ...
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... thing itself would , perhaps , be unread . " " When the season ended , Garrick had begun to think of setting about some important alterations in the arrangements of his house . Foote and Murphy , how- ever , had entered into a strange ...
... thing itself would , perhaps , be unread . " " When the season ended , Garrick had begun to think of setting about some important alterations in the arrangements of his house . Foote and Murphy , how- ever , had entered into a strange ...
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... thing was carried to an absurdity on the benefit nights of the actors , which came very often , when there was that ... things for him to intrude himself into the side box , with many apologies , to the great disturbance of the tenants ...
... thing was carried to an absurdity on the benefit nights of the actors , which came very often , when there was that ... things for him to intrude himself into the side box , with many apologies , to the great disturbance of the tenants ...
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... thing in the shape of real effect . A letter to the manager , about his scenery , shows that they felt this very difficulty . They had " They had " a sun much such as they had at the opera , only larger . Gætano has about con- vinced me ...
... thing in the shape of real effect . A letter to the manager , about his scenery , shows that they felt this very difficulty . They had " They had " a sun much such as they had at the opera , only larger . Gætano has about con- vinced me ...
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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...