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... asked me one evening if I had any play by me , telling me he was desirous of ap- pearing in a new part . I answered him I had one almost finished ; but I conceived it so little the manager's interest to produce anything new on his stage ...
... asked me one evening if I had any play by me , telling me he was desirous of ap- pearing in a new part . I answered him I had one almost finished ; but I conceived it so little the manager's interest to produce anything new on his stage ...
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... asked him the reason why they spelled their names differently ; the earl spelling it with the E first ( Feilding ) , and Henry Fielding with the 1 first : " I can't tell my lord , ' was the author's reply , " except it be that my branch ...
... asked him the reason why they spelled their names differently ; the earl spelling it with the E first ( Feilding ) , and Henry Fielding with the 1 first : " I can't tell my lord , ' was the author's reply , " except it be that my branch ...
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... asked for a toast , said , he would drink confusion to the memory of him who first invented “ fifth acts . ” On the same authority we are told that , in 1736 , Fielding's name occurs as the manager of the Haymarket theatre , on the ...
... asked for a toast , said , he would drink confusion to the memory of him who first invented “ fifth acts . ” On the same authority we are told that , in 1736 , Fielding's name occurs as the manager of the Haymarket theatre , on the ...
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... asked leave to prefix your name to this dedi- cation , I must still insist on my right to desire your protection of this work . To you , sir , it is owing that this history was ever begun . It was by your desire that I first thought of ...
... asked leave to prefix your name to this dedi- cation , I must still insist on my right to desire your protection of this work . To you , sir , it is owing that this history was ever begun . It was by your desire that I first thought of ...
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... asked the evening before , to which he returned the same answers . The con- sequence of this was , so severe a whipping , that it possibly fell little short of the torture with which confessions are in some countries extorted from ...
... asked the evening before , to which he returned the same answers . The con- sequence of this was , so severe a whipping , that it possibly fell little short of the torture with which confessions are in some countries extorted from ...
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Página 235 - Little more worth remembering occurred during the play, at the end of which Jones asked him which of the players he had liked best. To this he answered with some appearance of indignation at the question, "The King, without doubt.
Página 235 - No wonder then," cries Partridge, "that the place is haunted. But I never saw in my life a worse grave-digger. I had a sexton, when .I was clerk, that should have dug three graves while he is digging one. The fellow handles a spade as if it was the first time he had ever had one in his hand. Ay, ay, you may sing. You had rather sing than work, I believe.
Página 234 - I perceive now it is what you told me. I am not afraid of anything ; for I know it is but a play. 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 275 - IT is a trite but true observation, that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts: and if this be just in what is odious and blameable, it is more strongly so in what is amiable and praiseworthy.
Página 67 - Secondly, that what was is commonly called love, namely, the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh, is by no means that passion for which I here contend. This is indeed more properly hunger; and as no glutton is ashamed to apply the word love to his appetite, and to say he LOVEs such and such dishes ; so may the lover of this kind, with equal propriety, say, he HUNGERs after such and such women.
Página 325 - I declare here, once for all, I describe not men, but manners ; not an individual, but a species. Perhaps it will be answered, Are not the characters then taken from life ? To which I answer in the affirmative ; nay, I believe I might aver that I have writ little more than I have seen.
Página xxiv - I had not plundered the public or the poor of those sums which men, who are always ready to plunder both as much as they can, have been pleased to suspect me of taking...
Página 274 - He who should call the ingenious Hogarth a burlesque painter, would, in my opinion, do him very little honour: for sure it is much easier, much less the subject of admiration, to paint a man with a nose, or any other feature of a preposterous size, or to expose him in some absurd or monstrous attitude, than to express the affections of men on canvas.
Página 282 - Mr William Mills, or some other of ghostly appearance, hath ascended with a face all pale with powder, and a shirt all bloody with ribbons; but from none of these, nor from Phidias, or Praxiteles, if they should return to life— no, not from the inimitable pencil of my friend Hogarth, could you receive such an idea of surprise, as would have entered in at your eyes, had they beheld the Lady Booby, when those last words issued out from the lips of Joseph. " Your virtue !" said the lady, recovering...
Página 137 - If thou dost delight in these models of perfection, there are books enow written to gratify thy taste; but, as we have not, in the course of our conversation, ever happened to meet with any such person, we have not chosen to introduce any such here.