The Life of David Garrick: From Original Family Papers, and Numerous Published and Unpublished Sources, Volumen2Tinsley brothers, 1868 |
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... benefit nights , when actors had their " building on the stage , " an amphitheatre crowded with select friends , and with those who could not find room in the boxes . The absurdities this very familiar custom gave rise to , may be ...
... benefit nights , when actors had their " building on the stage , " an amphitheatre crowded with select friends , and with those who could not find room in the boxes . The absurdities this very familiar custom gave rise to , may be ...
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... benefit nights of the actors , which came very often , when there was that " building " on the stage , the great circus , that rose in tiers to the stage clouds , while the floor in front was covered with spectators sitting or lying ...
... benefit nights of the actors , which came very often , when there was that " building " on the stage , the great circus , that rose in tiers to the stage clouds , while the floor in front was covered with spectators sitting or lying ...
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... benefit , would lose as much as a hundred pounds or more , by being curtailed of this privilege . Garrick , however , always on the side of propriety , was content to brave the first dangers ; and the happy device of enlarging the house ...
... benefit , would lose as much as a hundred pounds or more , by being curtailed of this privilege . Garrick , however , always on the side of propriety , was content to brave the first dangers ; and the happy device of enlarging the house ...
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... benefit of the author . When the curtain rose , the uproar burst forth . The house was packed with the conspirators , and the noto- riously wan face of Mr. Fitzpatrick was seen in the boxes . In a moment he was haranguing them . Beside ...
... benefit of the author . When the curtain rose , the uproar burst forth . The house was packed with the conspirators , and the noto- riously wan face of Mr. Fitzpatrick was seen in the boxes . In a moment he was haranguing them . Beside ...
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... benefit , though he was not engaged at the theatre . We may wonder how the Fitzpatricks , and others of his professional slanderers , accounted for such behaviour . Still the rude shock he had received , had sunk deep into his mind ...
... benefit , though he was not engaged at the theatre . We may wonder how the Fitzpatricks , and others of his professional slanderers , accounted for such behaviour . Still the rude shock he had received , had sunk deep into his mind ...
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Página 424 - 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 410 - 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 Shakespeare receive him with praise and with love, And Beaumonts and Bens be his Kellys above.
Página 410 - 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 312 - 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 364 - 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 410 - Twas only that, when he was off, he was acting. With no reason on earth to go out of his way, He turned and he varied full ten times a day. Though secure of our hearts, yet confoundedly sick, If they were not his own by finessing and trick ; He cast off his friends, as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleased he could whistle them back. Of praise a mere glutton, he swallowed what came, And the puff of a dunce he mistook it for fame ; Till his relish grown callous, almost to disease, Who peppered...
Página 112 - 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 364 - 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 445 - TAKING a turn the other day in the Abbey, I was struck with the affected attitude of a figure, which I do not remember to have seen before, and which upon examination proved to be a whole-length of the celebrated Mr. Garrick. Though I would not go so far with some good catholics abroad as to shut players altogether out of consecrated ground, yet I own I was not a little...
Página 253 - Have put their whole drama and epick to flight ; In satires, epistles, and odes, would they cope, Their numbers retreat before Dryden and Pope ; And Johnson, well arm'd like a hero of yore, Has beat forty French', and will beat forty more!