 | John Genest - Theater - 1832 - 646 pages
...sorrowful, but instantly resuming all his high " comic humour and mirth, hobbled forward, en" tered the scene, and gave the audience what they " expected — their plenty of laugh and delight." — vol. 1. p. 328. OPERA HOUSE HAY. 1766. Cooke says that Barry, accompanied by Mrs. Dancer, arrived... | |
 | American literature - 1855 - 602 pages
...and fastening it to the stump : — he looked very sorrowful: — but, instantly resuming all his fun and mirth, he hobbled forward, entered the scene,...they expected, their plenty of laugh and delight. And without intermission he supplied this, replenished yearly from his own stores of invention, until... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1854 - 568 pages
...fastening it to the stump : — he looked very sorrowful : — but, instantly resuming all his fun and mirth, he hobbled forward, entered the scene,...they expected, their plenty of laugh and delight. And without intermission he supplied this, replenished yearly from his own stores of invention, until... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1854 - 568 pages
...and fastening it to the stump: — he looked vcry sorrowful: — but, instantly resuming all his fun and mirth, he hobbled forward, entered the scene,...they expected, their plenty of laugh and delight. And without intermission he supplied this, replenished yearly from his own stores of invention, until... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1855 - 588 pages
...and fastening it to the stump :—he looked very sorrowful: — but, instantly resuming all his fun and mirth, he hobbled forward, entered the scene,...they expected, their plenty of laugh and delight. And without intermission he supplied this, replenished yearly from his own stores of invention, until... | |
 | Dr. Doran (John) - Actors - 1865 - 442 pages
...Cato, on the 14th of the following August, and if Foote went into the pit on that occasion, his envy and malevolence must have supplied him with the energy..."game leg." " Make no allusion to my weakest part ! Did I ever attack your head ?" Then Garrick once took as a compliment, that his bust had been placed... | |
 | Dr. Doran (John) - Actors - 1865 - 446 pages
...he was ashamed to refuse, and at the very first burst the boaster was thrown and his leg broken iu two places. Even when his leg was amputated, he was..."game leg." " Make no allusion to my weakest part ! Did I ever attack your head ?" Then Garrick once took as a compliment, that his bust had been placed... | |
 | Dr. Doran (John) - Actors - 1865 - 438 pages
...burst the boaster was thrown and his leg broken in two places. Even when his leg was amputated, he w;is helped, by the incident, to an unworthy thought, namely,..."game leg." " Make no allusion to my weakest part ! Did I ever attack your head ?" Then Garrick once took as a compliment, that his bust had been placed... | |
 | John Doran - 1865 - 486 pages
...to appear. " He looked sorrowful," says O'Keefe, " but instantly resuming all his high comic humour and mirth, he hobbled forward, entered the scene,..." game leg." " Make no allusion to my weakest part ! Did I ever attack your head?" Garrick once took as a compliment, that his bust had been placed by... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1876 - 816 pages
...suit the char acter in which his master was to appear. He looked sorrowful ; but instantly re suming his high comic humor and mirth, he hobbled forward,...gave the audience what they expected, their plenty of laughter and delight. But after all, the accident was not an unalloyed evil, as in consideration of... | |
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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... 
