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... persons to act their part there . But I assure you it is quite otherwise in our theatrical world . If we should invest ... person who ever had any power on the stage was ever so universally odious to the actors as yourself . " He was ...
... persons to act their part there . But I assure you it is quite otherwise in our theatrical world . If we should invest ... person who ever had any power on the stage was ever so universally odious to the actors as yourself . " He was ...
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... story told of his walking up and down before his house one evening with some person of great importance from whom he could not break away abruptly , and seeing through the dining - room window a thief in one THE MODERN ROSCIUS . 51.
... story told of his walking up and down before his house one evening with some person of great importance from whom he could not break away abruptly , and seeing through the dining - room window a thief in one THE MODERN ROSCIUS . 51.
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... persons in the land fought at the thronged doors for admittance and very frequently failed . He played a round of all his great parts . ' Last night , " he writes in one place , " I played Abel Drugger for the last time . I thought the ...
... persons in the land fought at the thronged doors for admittance and very frequently failed . He played a round of all his great parts . ' Last night , " he writes in one place , " I played Abel Drugger for the last time . I thought the ...
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... person to drink port , claret , or whatever liquor he shall choose . " Now , as Macklin understood nothing of Greek and Latin , he could not discourse very learnedly upon the classical drama ; as his knowledge of French was not ...
... person to drink port , claret , or whatever liquor he shall choose . " Now , as Macklin understood nothing of Greek and Latin , he could not discourse very learnedly upon the classical drama ; as his knowledge of French was not ...
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... person was admitted . Macklin himself , in full dress , always brought in the first dish , then with a low bow retired to the sideboard , where he remained with his two principal waiters , one on each side of him . He had had the ...
... person was admitted . Macklin himself , in full dress , always brought in the first dish , then with a low bow retired to the sideboard , where he remained with his two principal waiters , one on each side of him . He had had the ...
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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.