Dramatic table talk, or Scenes, situations & adventures, serious & comic, in theatrical history & biography [signed R. Ryan].1825 |
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5. oldal
... tion was not easily damped by sorrowful scenes : however , although she strove to hide it , the tear of feeling stole down her cheek , and stooping to kiss the children , she slipped a pound note into the mother's hand , and , in her ...
... tion was not easily damped by sorrowful scenes : however , although she strove to hide it , the tear of feeling stole down her cheek , and stooping to kiss the children , she slipped a pound note into the mother's hand , and , in her ...
45. oldal
... tion , until that time , is in the MS . of Sir Henry Herbert , from which it appears that “ Othello ” was performed by the Red Bull Company ( who afterwards opened Drury Lane , and obtained the title of His Majesty's Servants ) , at ...
... tion , until that time , is in the MS . of Sir Henry Herbert , from which it appears that “ Othello ” was performed by the Red Bull Company ( who afterwards opened Drury Lane , and obtained the title of His Majesty's Servants ) , at ...
62. oldal
... tion , of whom we have any account , was a bookseller in Holborn of the name of Cartwright , whose name is mentioned in Downe's " Roscius Anglicanus , " but of whose performance nothing is known . He very liberally bequeathed his books ...
... tion , of whom we have any account , was a bookseller in Holborn of the name of Cartwright , whose name is mentioned in Downe's " Roscius Anglicanus , " but of whose performance nothing is known . He very liberally bequeathed his books ...
64. oldal
... tion ; but , alas ! the sober gravity of his face could never be made to express the inimita- ble humour of Falstaff . The fat figure , full voice , round face , and honest laugh of Harper , were more in his favour , but few gleams of ...
... tion ; but , alas ! the sober gravity of his face could never be made to express the inimita- ble humour of Falstaff . The fat figure , full voice , round face , and honest laugh of Harper , were more in his favour , but few gleams of ...
67. oldal
... tion of the character is marked by a number of clever points , and displays in several of the scenes much talent and discrimination . FATHER AND SON . ONE evening Tom Sheridan , sitting with his father over a bottle , was complaining of ...
... tion of the character is marked by a number of clever points , and displays in several of the scenes much talent and discrimination . FATHER AND SON . ONE evening Tom Sheridan , sitting with his father over a bottle , was complaining of ...
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Népszerű szakaszok
123. oldal - I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.
96. oldal - I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men's blood: I only speak right on; I tell you that which you yourselves do know; Show you sweet Caesar's wounds, poor poor dumb mouths, And bid them speak for me: but were I Brutus, And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony Would ruffle up your spirits and put a tongue In every wound of Caesar that should move The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.
178. oldal - WHEN Learning's triumph o'er her barb'rous foes First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakspeare rose ; Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new: Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.
178. oldal - Then Jonson came, instructed from the school, To please in method, and invent by rule...
181. oldal - Ah ! let not Censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice ; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die ; 'Tis yours, this night, to bid the reign commence Of rescued Nature and reviving Sense ; To chase the charms of sound, the pomp of show, For useful mirth and salutary woe ; Bid scenic Virtue form the rising age, And Truth diffuse...
179. oldal - The wits of Charles found easier ways to fame, Nor wish'd for Jonson's art, or Shakespeare's flame; Themselves they studied; as they felt, they writ; intrigue was plot, obscenity was wit.
30. oldal - ... public sports do not well agree with public calamities, nor public stage-plays with the seasons of humiliation, this being an exercise of sad and pious solemnity, and the other being spectacles of pleasure, too commonly expressing lascivious mirth and levity...
12. oldal - Because you are a Methodist preacher, and when you know who I am, you'll send me to the devil ! ' " ' The Lord forbid ! I am, as you say, a preacher of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, who tells us to clothe the naked, feed the hungry, and relieve the distressed ; and do you think I can behold a sister...
163. oldal - And there was many an hour Of blended kindred fame, When Siddons's auxiliar power And sister magic came. Together at the Muse's side...
168. oldal - Council of the city; and that is called the Mayor's play, where every one that will comes in without money, the Mayor giving the players a reward as he thinks fit to show respect unto them.