Lights of the Old English StageD. Appleton, 1878 - 225 páginas |
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... manner , was more than I could support ; in a word , it almost took away my breath , and ( laugh if you please ) fairly drew tears from my eyes . I will still make it a question whether Alexander himself , or Charles the Twelfth of ...
... manner , was more than I could support ; in a word , it almost took away my breath , and ( laugh if you please ) fairly drew tears from my eyes . I will still make it a question whether Alexander himself , or Charles the Twelfth of ...
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... manners , and the exquisite of to- day is quite a different animal even to that of our youth . The gem of the play , however , and one of the finest comic conceptions of the last century , is Lady Betty Modish , the vain , frivolous ...
... manners , and the exquisite of to- day is quite a different animal even to that of our youth . The gem of the play , however , and one of the finest comic conceptions of the last century , is Lady Betty Modish , the vain , frivolous ...
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... manner was so perfectly simple , his look so vacant when he questioned his cousin Silence about the price of ewes , and lamented in the same breath , with silly surprise , the death of Old Double , that it will be impossible for any ...
... manner was so perfectly simple , his look so vacant when he questioned his cousin Silence about the price of ewes , and lamented in the same breath , with silly surprise , the death of Old Double , that it will be impossible for any ...
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... manner , and done just as he did . " He introduced many new readings and much new business , that were eagerly discussed at the time , but which remained orthodox until Fechter swept them away . Upon returning to London , he , Macklin ...
... manner , and done just as he did . " He introduced many new readings and much new business , that were eagerly discussed at the time , but which remained orthodox until Fechter swept them away . Upon returning to London , he , Macklin ...
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... manner of the Improvisa- tores ; it was so extremely wanting in contrast , that , though it did not wound the ear , it wearied it . When she had once re- cited two or three speeches , I could anticipate the manner of every succeeding ...
... manner of the Improvisa- tores ; it was so extremely wanting in contrast , that , though it did not wound the ear , it wearied it . When she had once re- cited two or three speeches , I could anticipate the manner of every succeeding ...
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Página 51 - cries 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 13 - And let those, that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered : ' that's villainous : and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Página 22 - Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it : his mind and hand went together ; and what he thought, he uttered with that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers.
Página 165 - Yes, as rocks are, When foamy billows split themselves against Their flinty ribs ; or as the moon is moved, When wolves, with hunger pined, howl at her brightness.
Página 31 - Chamberlain pronounced it to be the best first play that any author in his memory had produced ; and that for a young fellow to show himself such an actor and such a writer in one day was something extraordinary.
Página 12 - Nay, their endeavour keeps in the wonted pace : but there is, sir, an aery of children, little eyases, that cry out on the top of question, and are most tyrannically clapped for't : these are now the fashion; and so berattle(38) the common stages (so they call them), that many wearing rapiers are afraid of goose-quills, and dare scarce come thither.
Página 54 - Horatio — heavens, what a transition! — it seemed as if a whole century had been stept over in the transition of a single scene; old things were done away, and a new order at once brought forward, bright and luminous, and clearly destined to dispel the barbarisms and bigotry of a tasteless...
Página 123 - She was not less than a goddess, or than a prophetess inspired by the gods. Power was seated on her brow, passion emanated from her breast as from a shrine. She was tragedy personified. She was the stateliest ornament of the public mind. She was not only the idol of the people, she not only hushed the tumultuous shouts of the pit in breathless expectation, and quenched the blaze of surrounding beauty in silent tears, but to the retired and lonely student, through long years of solitude, her face...
Página 54 - ... light upon them, yet, in general they seemed to love darkness better than light, and, in the dialogue of altercation between Horatio and Lothario, bestowed far the greater show of hands upon the master of the old school than upon the founder of the new. I thank my stars, my feelings in those moments led me right ; they were those of nature, and therefore could not err.
Página 52 - I know that Garrick has given away more money than any man in England that I am acquainted with, and that not from ostentatious views. Garrick was very poor when he began life; so when he came to have money, he probably was very unskilful in giving away, and saved when he should not.