The manager (cont'd) ; Actor and traveller ; The Man of SocietyTinsley Brothers, 1868 |
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... play . Mrs. Cibber played her Juliet in white satin , hoops , and furbelows ; so that Don 24 [ 1762 THE LIFE OF DAVID GARRICK .
... play . Mrs. Cibber played her Juliet in white satin , hoops , and furbelows ; so that Don 24 [ 1762 THE LIFE OF DAVID GARRICK .
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... play began , dressed up in gaudy liveries , who sat in the best places , for two or three acts , and thus kept the places . This was an incongruous sight enough ; as ladies of the first rank often found themselves seated , through a ...
... play began , dressed up in gaudy liveries , who sat in the best places , for two or three acts , and thus kept the places . This was an incongruous sight enough ; as ladies of the first rank often found themselves seated , through a ...
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... play . The author was supposed to be busy with an important life of the great Duke of Marlborough , for which the duchess had left a sum of a thousand pounds . On this retainer , very handsome in those days of hack- writing , Mallet for ...
... play . The author was supposed to be busy with an important life of the great Duke of Marlborough , for which the duchess had left a sum of a thousand pounds . On this retainer , very handsome in those days of hack- writing , Mallet for ...
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... play , but restored it , whenever the regular stock - pieces were played , where Garrick's strength and attraction lay . This had been the old custom , and was certainly not unreasonable ; but it furnished the occasion that Fitz ...
... play , but restored it , whenever the regular stock - pieces were played , where Garrick's strength and attraction lay . This had been the old custom , and was certainly not unreasonable ; but it furnished the occasion that Fitz ...
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... played , with some alterations by Victor , and had reached its tenth night , when it was to be performed for the benefit ... play , performed by Garrick , Holland , O'Brien , Packer , & c . Perhaps our lord and master will require opera ...
... played , with some alterations by Victor , and had reached its tenth night , when it was to be performed for the benefit ... play , performed by Garrick , Holland , O'Brien , Packer , & c . Perhaps our lord and master will require opera ...
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Abington actor actress admirable amusing appearance audience Barry Beggar's Opera behaviour Boswell brought called character charming Cibber Clairon Clive Colman comedy comic compliment Covent Garden David Garrick Davies delighted dramatic dress Drury Lane Dublin effect English eyes face Fair Penitent favour Foote Foote's French gave genius gentleman give Goldsmith green-room groundlings Hamlet heart hint honour humour Jane Shore Johnson Jubilee King King Lear lady Lear letter London look Lord Macbeth manager mind Mossop Murphy nature Never acted night Othello performance piece play players pleasant praise Prologue Quin racter Romeo and Juliet Roscius scene School for Scandal seemed seen sent Shakspeare Sheridan sort spirit stage story strange talked taste theatre theatrical thought tion told tone took town true turned voice Warwickshire whole wife wish wonderful written wrote Yates young
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Página 425 - 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; Which his fair tongue (conceit's expositor) Delivers in such apt and gracious words, That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.
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 410 - 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 the highest was surest to please.
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 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 410 - 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 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 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...
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...