"Their Majesties' Servants": Annals of the English Stage from Thomas Betterton to Edmund KeanAllen, 1865 - 459 pages |
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... person to a table , at which he was seated among some company who were eating , and one of them sung a song . " This description applies to old Adam , in " As You Like It ; but it is doubtful if he who feebly shadowed it forth , and ...
... person to a table , at which he was seated among some company who were eating , and one of them sung a song . " This description applies to old Adam , in " As You Like It ; but it is doubtful if he who feebly shadowed it forth , and ...
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... person , the pure and pious Kenn was once called upon to yield up an apartment in which he lodged , and the peerage had a narrow escape of having her foisted upon it as Countess of Greenwich . This clever actress died in November , 1687 ...
... person , the pure and pious Kenn was once called upon to yield up an apartment in which he lodged , and the peerage had a narrow escape of having her foisted upon it as Countess of Greenwich . This clever actress died in November , 1687 ...
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... Persons seem to think . A Shaks- peare goes farther yet , and tells you what his Pictures thought . A Betterton steps beyond ' em both , and calls them from the grave , to breathe and be themselves again in Feature , Speech , and Motion ...
... Persons seem to think . A Shaks- peare goes farther yet , and tells you what his Pictures thought . A Betterton steps beyond ' em both , and calls them from the grave , to breathe and be themselves again in Feature , Speech , and Motion ...
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... person better qualified for converse , whether in things of his own trade , or of other kind ; a man of great understanding and observation . I was mighty pleased with his company , " a company with which were united , now Killigrew and ...
... person better qualified for converse , whether in things of his own trade , or of other kind ; a man of great understanding and observation . I was mighty pleased with his company , " a company with which were united , now Killigrew and ...
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... person of the poet Bayes ; and the irritability of Dryden is warrant that the satire was good . The humour is good , too . The rehearsed play commences with a scene between the royal usher and the royal physician , in a series of ...
... person of the poet Bayes ; and the irritability of Dryden is warrant that the satire was good . The humour is good , too . The rehearsed play commences with a scene between the royal usher and the royal physician , in a series of ...
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Page 43 - Hotspur) when the Betterton Brutus was provoked, in his dispute with Cassius, his spirit flew only to his eye; his steady look alone supplied that terror, which he disdained an intemperance in his voice should rise to.
Page 307 - such stuff as great part of Shakespeare? only one must not say so! But what think you? — What? — Is there not sad stuff? What?— what?
Page 66 - The Humourous Lovers ;" the most silly thing that ever came upon a stage. I was sick to see it, but yet would not but have seen it, that I might the better understand her.
Page 40 - I have hardly a notion, that any performer of antiquity could surpass the action of Mr. Betterton in any of the occasions in which he has appeared on our stage. The wonderful agony which he appeared in, when he examined the circumstance of the handkerchief in Othello; the mixture of love that intruded upon his mind, upon the innocent answers Desdemona makes, betrayed in his gesture such a variety and vicissitude of passions, as would admonish a man to be afraid of his own heart...
Page 43 - ... might wish or enjoin a sorrowful son to execute, towards his future quiet in the grave.
Page 17 - To the Theatre, where was acted 'Beggar's Bush,' it being very well done ; and here the first time that ever I saw women come upon the stage.
Page 43 - I never heard a line in tragedy come from Betterton, wherein my judgment, my ear, and my imagination, were not fully satisfied; which, since his time, I cannot equally say of any one actor whatsoever...
Page 93 - from one play-house to the other play-house ; and if they like neither the play nor the women, they seldom stay any longer than the combing of their perriwigs, or a whisper or two with a friend, and then they cock their caps, and out they strut again.
Page 459 - This is a really valuable work. A book which will long remain the standard authority on the subject. No one who has been to the Channel Islands, or who purposes going there will be insensible of its value.
Page 35 - Oh, brother ! Here lies your sister slain ; you lose yourself In sorrow there. Mel. Why, Diphilus, it is A thing to laugh at in respect of this : Here was my sister, father, brother, son : All that I had ! Speak once again : What youth Lies slain there by thee ? Amin.