Memoirs of Charles Macklin, Comedian: With the Dramatic Characters, Manners, Anecdotes, &c. of the Age in which He Lived : Forming an History of the Stage During Almost the Whole of the Last Century, and a Chronological List of All the Parts Played by HimJ. Asperne, 1804 - 444 oldal |
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9. oldal
... took her and her children under his roof , and gave her every kind of protection till she married a second time , and got into some little line of independence . In the neighbourhood of Mrs. Macklin there lived a near relation of the ...
... took her and her children under his roof , and gave her every kind of protection till she married a second time , and got into some little line of independence . In the neighbourhood of Mrs. Macklin there lived a near relation of the ...
11. oldal
... took a French leave of his master , and travelled up to Dublin on foot , with a few shillings in his pocket , without any previous acquaintance , letters of recommendation , or any other designation , but that boyish ram . bling idea ...
... took a French leave of his master , and travelled up to Dublin on foot , with a few shillings in his pocket , without any previous acquaintance , letters of recommendation , or any other designation , but that boyish ram . bling idea ...
13. oldal
... took him at his word at the end of the season , and went down into a strolling company at Wales . Previously to his going down into Wales , he spent a few months in London , in company with a Dick Ashley , a son of the Dublin Manager ...
... took him at his word at the end of the season , and went down into a strolling company at Wales . Previously to his going down into Wales , he spent a few months in London , in company with a Dick Ashley , a son of the Dublin Manager ...
19. oldal
... philosopher , as well as a good actor , Quin took fire , and replied , " The fellow talks about philosophy and divinity too sometimes , I grant C 2 you ; you ; but I believe it will be found that CHARLES MACKLIN . 19.
... philosopher , as well as a good actor , Quin took fire , and replied , " The fellow talks about philosophy and divinity too sometimes , I grant C 2 you ; you ; but I believe it will be found that CHARLES MACKLIN . 19.
21. oldal
... took a parting supper at the Piazzas , Covent Garden , where he paid her regularly the balance of the hundred pounds , and then dismissed her nearly in the following words : " Madam , for our mu- tual convenience , I have given you the ...
... took a parting supper at the Piazzas , Covent Garden , where he paid her regularly the balance of the hundred pounds , and then dismissed her nearly in the following words : " Madam , for our mu- tual convenience , I have given you the ...
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54. oldal - Twas but a kindred sound to move, For pity melts the mind to love. Softly sweet, in Lydian measures Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures. War...
183. oldal - A fixed figure for the time of scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at ! Yet could I bear that too ; well, very well : But there, where I have garner'd up my heart, Where either I must live, or bear no life...
182. oldal - My story being done, She gave me for my pains a world of sighs: She swore, in faith, 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange, 'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful...
411. oldal - The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.
66. oldal - Opera the gangs of robbers were evidently multiplied. Both these decisions are surely exaggerated. The play, like many others, was plainly written only to divert, without any moral purpose, and is therefore not likely to do good ; nor can it be conceived, without more speculation than life requires or admits, to he productive of much evil.
154. oldal - Pity it is, that the momentary beauties flowing from an harmonious elocution, cannot like those of poetry be their own record! That the animated graces of the player can live no longer than the instant breath and motion that presents them; or at best can but faintly glimmer through the memory, or imperfect attestation of a few surviving spectators.
116. oldal - For say what subject is more fit, Than to record the sparkling wit And bloom of lovely Peggy. The sun first rising in the morn, That paints the dew-bespangled thorn, Does not so much the day adorn As does my lovely Peggy.
94. oldal - I mustered up all the courage I could, and, recommending my cause to Providence, threw myself boldly on the stage, and was received by one of the loudest thunders of applause I ever before experienced. '"The opening scenes being rather tame and level, I could not expect much applause, but I found myself well listened to. I could hear distinctly in the pit the words "Very well— very well indeed! This man seems to know what he is about,
343. oldal - They have no remembrance of anything but what they learned and observed in their youth and middle age, and even that is very imperfect. And for the truth or particulars of any fact, it is safer to depend on common tradition than upon their best recollections. The least miserable among them appear to be those who turn to dotage, and entirely lose their memories ; these meet with more pity and assistance, because they want many bad qualities which abound in others.
25. oldal - Characters she chiefly excell'd in; but her natural good Sense and lively Turn of Conversation made her Way so easy to Ladies of the highest Rank, that it is a less Wonder, if on the Stage she sometimes was, what might have become the finest Woman in real Life to have supported.