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... better than all her physi- cians . " He fell into disgrace at last , however , and was dismissed from Court for scurrilous reflections upon ' Leicester and Raleigh . He appears to have chiefly RICHARD BURBADGE AND OTHERS . 13.
... better than all her physi- cians . " He fell into disgrace at last , however , and was dismissed from Court for scurrilous reflections upon ' Leicester and Raleigh . He appears to have chiefly RICHARD BURBADGE AND OTHERS . 13.
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... fell into dis- order , salaries were lowered , and not paid even at the reduced ratio . To make amends , free benefits were given to the actors , which was the commencement of a theatrical institution that is only now on the wane ...
... fell into dis- order , salaries were lowered , and not paid even at the reduced ratio . To make amends , free benefits were given to the actors , which was the commencement of a theatrical institution that is only now on the wane ...
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... fell into the hands of one Swiney ; to whom , weary at length of being fleeced by their roguish manager , Christopher Rich , Dogget , Mrs. Oldfield , and Cibber went over . Then followed many changes in the theatrical state , which it ...
... fell into the hands of one Swiney ; to whom , weary at length of being fleeced by their roguish manager , Christopher Rich , Dogget , Mrs. Oldfield , and Cibber went over . Then followed many changes in the theatrical state , which it ...
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... fell below her . " It was her most perfect character . When going off the stage she uttered the words , ' O Lord , my boy ! ' with such an emphatical scream of agony as will never be forgotten by those who heard her . " Another critic ...
... fell below her . " It was her most perfect character . When going off the stage she uttered the words , ' O Lord , my boy ! ' with such an emphatical scream of agony as will never be forgotten by those who heard her . " Another critic ...
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... fell in love with her and proposed marriage ; then she engaged her- self as valet to a nobleman ; not remaining long in this situation , she took to making and selling sausages ; then became head waiter at a tavern ; after this she went ...
... fell in love with her and proposed marriage ; then she engaged her- self as valet to a nobleman ; not remaining long in this situation , she took to making and selling sausages ; then became head waiter at a tavern ; after this she went ...
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Page 51 - cries Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer; "why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure if I had seen a ghost I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did.
Page 13 - And let those, that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered : ' that's villainous : and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Page 22 - Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it : his mind and hand went together ; and what he thought, he uttered with that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers.
Page 165 - Yes, as rocks are, When foamy billows split themselves against Their flinty ribs ; or as the moon is moved, When wolves, with hunger pined, howl at her brightness.
Page 31 - Chamberlain pronounced it to be the best first play that any author in his memory had produced ; and that for a young fellow to show himself such an actor and such a writer in one day was something extraordinary.
Page 12 - Nay, their endeavour keeps in the wonted pace : but there is, sir, an aery of children, little eyases, that cry out on the top of question, and are most tyrannically clapped for't : these are now the fashion; and so berattle(38) the common stages (so they call them), that many wearing rapiers are afraid of goose-quills, and dare scarce come thither.
Page 54 - Horatio — heavens, what a transition! — it seemed as if a whole century had been stept over in the transition of a single scene; old things were done away, and a new order at once brought forward, bright and luminous, and clearly destined to dispel the barbarisms and bigotry of a tasteless...
Page 123 - She was not less than a goddess, or than a prophetess inspired by the gods. Power was seated on her brow, passion emanated from her breast as from a shrine. She was tragedy personified. She was the stateliest ornament of the public mind. She was not only the idol of the people, she not only hushed the tumultuous shouts of the pit in breathless expectation, and quenched the blaze of surrounding beauty in silent tears, but to the retired and lonely student, through long years of solitude, her face...
Page 54 - ... light upon them, yet, in general they seemed to love darkness better than light, and, in the dialogue of altercation between Horatio and Lothario, bestowed far the greater show of hands upon the master of the old school than upon the founder of the new. I thank my stars, my feelings in those moments led me right ; they were those of nature, and therefore could not err.
Page 52 - I know that Garrick has given away more money than any man in England that I am acquainted with, and that not from ostentatious views. Garrick was very poor when he began life; so when he came to have money, he probably was very unskilful in giving away, and saved when he should not.