Occasional Papers: Dramatic and HistoricalBickers, 1906 - 251 страници |
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... present best repay study and con- sideration . For the actual history of the theatre in the seventeenth century , for the lives of the dramatists and actors of those days , our materials are very scanty ; to one seeking to gain a real ...
... present best repay study and con- sideration . For the actual history of the theatre in the seventeenth century , for the lives of the dramatists and actors of those days , our materials are very scanty ; to one seeking to gain a real ...
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... present - day theatre , when business considerations compel the theatrical manager to give seven or eight performances a week of a successful play , Mrs. Woffington , one of the most indus- trious of eighteenth - century actresses , was ...
... present - day theatre , when business considerations compel the theatrical manager to give seven or eight performances a week of a successful play , Mrs. Woffington , one of the most indus- trious of eighteenth - century actresses , was ...
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... present deplorable state of a theatre that rejects the masterpieces of Mr. Ralph . should be added that a play of Ralph's , called The Astrologer , had been produced in 1744 , and on the second night of its run the theatre had to be ...
... present deplorable state of a theatre that rejects the masterpieces of Mr. Ralph . should be added that a play of Ralph's , called The Astrologer , had been produced in 1744 , and on the second night of its run the theatre had to be ...
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... present moment were feelingly deplored and pleasantly satirised . With your permission I would to - night , for a short space , direct your attention to an integral part of this inflated factor in our modern life -I mean the overrated ...
... present moment were feelingly deplored and pleasantly satirised . With your permission I would to - night , for a short space , direct your attention to an integral part of this inflated factor in our modern life -I mean the overrated ...
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... present revoke the privilege accorded to him , at the bidding of those who represent him as a standing menace to a well - conducted household . playgoers , keenly interested in the actor as they see him on the stage and follow him in ...
... present revoke the privilege accorded to him , at the bidding of those who represent him as a standing menace to a well - conducted household . playgoers , keenly interested in the actor as they see him on the stage and follow him in ...
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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.