Lights of the Old English StageD. Appleton, 1878 - 225 páginas |
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... passion for dramatic entertainments as then ; the art was thoroughly studied and understood , as how could it be otherwise under tho reign of such dramatists as Jonson , Beaumont and Fletcher , and Shakespeare ? * The actors lived in ...
... passion for dramatic entertainments as then ; the art was thoroughly studied and understood , as how could it be otherwise under tho reign of such dramatists as Jonson , Beaumont and Fletcher , and Shakespeare ? * The actors lived in ...
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... passion for the gaming - table , and frequently lost heavily ; and this , and his gay style of living , interfered with his professional duties , and at times he would go on the stage imperfect in some of his oldest parts . Davies had ...
... passion for the gaming - table , and frequently lost heavily ; and this , and his gay style of living , interfered with his professional duties , and at times he would go on the stage imperfect in some of his oldest parts . Davies had ...
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... passion the poet came behind the scenes and with a torrent of abuse demanded that the allusion should not be repeated . So far from yielding , Cibber vowed he would repeat the jest every time he played the part . This was the beginning ...
... passion the poet came behind the scenes and with a torrent of abuse demanded that the allusion should not be repeated . So far from yielding , Cibber vowed he would repeat the jest every time he played the part . This was the beginning ...
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... passion is required . " The elder actor was right . Davies says she had no successor in the part ; even Mrs. Yates fell below her . " It was her most perfect character . When going off the stage she uttered the words , ' O Lord , my boy ...
... passion is required . " The elder actor was right . Davies says she had no successor in the part ; even Mrs. Yates fell below her . " It was her most perfect character . When going off the stage she uttered the words , ' O Lord , my boy ...
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... passion ; some of the points literally electrified them , as when he dashed away the prayer - book after his interview with the lord - mayor ; his " Off with his head , so much for Buckingham ; " his marvelous tent - scene , his wild ...
... passion ; some of the points literally electrified them , as when he dashed away the prayer - book after his interview with the lord - mayor ; his " Off with his head , so much for Buckingham ; " his marvelous tent - scene , his wild ...
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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.