Occasional Papers: Dramatic and HistoricalBickers, 1906 - 251 страници |
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... plays on the stage , the realisation of the utmost that the theatre can do in the way of giving to the work of the dramatist a worthy setting ; a century in which painting , music , history , and archæology have all been pressed into ...
... plays on the stage , the realisation of the utmost that the theatre can do in the way of giving to the work of the dramatist a worthy setting ; a century in which painting , music , history , and archæology have all been pressed into ...
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... player , not the author , that fixes the attention of posterity in the history of the Georgian theatre For all those plays that attracted audiences in the eighteenth century are for the most part dead things . We can name on the fingers ...
... player , not the author , that fixes the attention of posterity in the history of the Georgian theatre For all those plays that attracted audiences in the eighteenth century are for the most part dead things . We can name on the fingers ...
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... plays as Home's Douglas , The Gamester , The Honeymoon , Holcroft's Road to Ruin , and Lillo's George Barnwell , that survived at any rate their own immediate popularity , have to - day all but passed out of recollection ; indeed ...
... plays as Home's Douglas , The Gamester , The Honeymoon , Holcroft's Road to Ruin , and Lillo's George Barnwell , that survived at any rate their own immediate popularity , have to - day all but passed out of recollection ; indeed ...
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... play , Mrs. Woffington , one of the most indus- trious of eighteenth - century actresses , was considered to have greatly impaired her health and hastened her premature death by frequently playing six times a week . What would her ...
... play , Mrs. Woffington , one of the most indus- trious of eighteenth - century actresses , was considered to have greatly impaired her health and hastened her premature death by frequently playing six times a week . What would her ...
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... plays . This change found its immediate reflection in the theatre . Whereas during the early part of the century but eight or ... play in which they figured . When in 1773 Macklin , to the incidental accompaniment of the Coldstream March ...
... plays . This change found its immediate reflection in the theatre . Whereas during the early part of the century but eight or ... play in which they figured . When in 1773 Macklin , to the incidental accompaniment of the Coldstream March ...
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Страница 38 - If I were a woman, I would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleased me, complexions that liked me, and breaths that I defied not...
Страница 32 - Cold are those hands, which, living, were stretched forth At friendship's call to succour modest worth. Here lies James Quin ! deign reader to be taught (Whate'er thy strength of body, force of thought, In nature's happiest mould however cast), To this complexion thou must come at last.
Страница 116 - Till one wide conflagration swallows all. Thence a new world, to nature's laws unknown, Breaks out refulgent, with a heaven its own: Another Cynthia her new journey runs, And other planets circle other suns. The forests dance, the rivers upward rise, Whales sport in woods, and dolphins in the skies; And last, to give the whole creation grace, Lo! one vast egg produces human race. Joy fills his soul, joy innocent of thought; What power, he cries, what power these wonders wrought?
Страница 61 - ... is, and ought to be, in many points of view, and strictly speaking, no imitation at all of external nature. Perhaps it ought to be as far removed from the vulgar idea of imitation as the refined civilised state in which we live is removed from a gross state of nature...
Страница 25 - I have often seen her in private societies, where women of the best rank might have borrowed some part of her behaviour without the least diminution of their sense or dignity...
Страница 114 - Circe,' and others, all set off with the most expensive decorations of scenes and habits, with the best voices and dancers. " This sensual supply of sight and sound coming in to the assistance of the weaker party, it was no wonder they should grow too hard for sense and simple nature, when it is considered how many more people there are that can see and hear than think and judge.
Страница 21 - I was resolved to walk thither and see the last office done to a man whom I had always very much admired, and from whose action I had received more strong impressions of what is great and noble in human nature, than from the arguments of the most solid philosophers, or the descriptions of the most charming poets I had ever read.
Страница 36 - In spite of outward blemishes, she shone, For humour fam'd, and humour all her own. Easy, as if at home, the stage she trod, Nor sought the critic's praise, nor fear'd his rod. Original in spirit and in ease, She pleas'd by hiding all attempts to please. No comic actress ever yet could raise, On humour's base, more merit or more praise.
Страница 56 - Garrick, the charming man, the fine fellow, the delightful creature, both by men and ladies, when they were admiring everything you did and everything you scribbled, at this very time, /, the.
Страница 46 - Here Havard, all serene, in the same strains, Loves, hates, and rages, triumphs, and complains ; His easy vacant face proclaim'da heart Which could not feel emotions, nor impart. With him came mighty Davies. On my life, That Davies hath a very pretty wife :— Statesman all over !— In plots famous grown !— He mouths a sentence, as curs mouth a bone.