"Their Majesties' Servants": Annals of the English Stage, from Thomas Betterton to Edmund Kean, Volume 2 |
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... Century XII - Of Authors , and particularly of condemned Authors XIII . The Audiences of the last half of the Eighteenth Century . 163 XIV . - Charles Macklin 184 • XV . — A Bevy of Ladies ; —but chiefly . Mrs. Bellamy , Miss Farren ...
... Century XII - Of Authors , and particularly of condemned Authors XIII . The Audiences of the last half of the Eighteenth Century . 163 XIV . - Charles Macklin 184 • XV . — A Bevy of Ladies ; —but chiefly . Mrs. Bellamy , Miss Farren ...
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... century later , when poet - laureate , they ostracized the bard whom they could not equal in song . Colley was satisfied with his glory , and treated his young adversaries with all the mingled good - nature and audacity with which he ...
... century later , when poet - laureate , they ostracized the bard whom they could not equal in song . Colley was satisfied with his glory , and treated his young adversaries with all the mingled good - nature and audacity with which he ...
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... century before him . Such a man was sure to be both hated and envied - though only by a few . Of Cibber's being elected to White's Club House , Davies sneer- ingly remarks : - " and so , I suppose , might any man be who wore good ...
... century before him . Such a man was sure to be both hated and envied - though only by a few . Of Cibber's being elected to White's Club House , Davies sneer- ingly remarks : - " and so , I suppose , might any man be who wore good ...
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... century later . The company assembled at mid - day , and sometimes broke the doors open , un- less they were opened to them , by three o'clock , and so took the house by storm . Those who could not gain admittance , went over to Drury ...
... century later . The company assembled at mid - day , and sometimes broke the doors open , un- less they were opened to them , by three o'clock , and so took the house by storm . Those who could not gain admittance , went over to Drury ...
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... century ago , wished " that so eminent an actor as Woodward might never be permitted to put on the fool's coat again . " Rich thought himself , indeed , as good an actor as they ; but , though the son of a gentleman , he was illiterate ...
... century ago , wished " that so eminent an actor as Woodward might never be permitted to put on the fool's coat again . " Rich thought himself , indeed , as good an actor as they ; but , though the son of a gentleman , he was illiterate ...
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Page 34 - For physic and farces his equal there scarce is— His farces are physic, his physic a farce is.
Page 135 - Sincerity, Thou first of virtues! let no mortal leave Thy onward path, although the earth should gape, And from the gulf of hell destruction cry, To take dissimulation's winding way.
Page 20 - I had rather not suppress, viz. that it was 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 199 - ... his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form ; Then have I reason to be fond of grief. Fare you well : had you such a loss as I, I could give better comfort than you do. I will not keep this form upon my head, When there is such disorder in my wit. O Lord ! my boy, my Arthur, my fair son ! My life, my joy, my food, my all the world ! My widow-comfort, and my sorrows
Page 53 - ild you! They say the owl was a baker's daughter. Lord! we know what we are, but know not what we may be.
Page 316 - The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, the important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome.
Page 133 - Among the fairest of Foote's sayings was the reply to Mr. Howard's intimation that he was about to publish a second edition of his Thoughts and Maxims. " Ay ! second thoughts are best." Fair, too, was his retort on the person who alluded to his "game leg.
Page 80 - Horatio — heavens, what a transition! — it seemed as if a whole century had been swept 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...
Page 357 - Wide o'er this breathing world, a Garrick came. Though sunk in death the forms the Poet drew, The Actor's genius bade them breathe anew ; Though, like the bard himself, in night they lay, Immortal Garrick call'd them back to day : And till Eternity with power sublime Shall mark the mortal hour of hoary Time, Shakspeare and Garrick like twin stars shall shine, And earth irradiate with a beam divine." It would be an insult to my readers' understandings to attempt any thing like a criticism on this...
Page 228 - Form'd gen'ral notions from the rascal few ; Condemn'da people, as for vices known, Which, from their country banish'd, seek our own. At length, howe'er, the slavish chain is broke, And Sense, awaken'd, scorns her ancient yoke : Taught by thee, Moody, we now learn to raise Mirth from their foibles ; from their virtues, praise.