David GarrickK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1894 - 346 oldal |
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50. oldal
... Dublin for a summer season Garrick " hanselled " his engagement by appearing for three nights at Drury Lane . These three nights were the 26th May , when he played Bayes ; the 28th May , when he was King Lear to the Cordelia of Peg ...
... Dublin for a summer season Garrick " hanselled " his engagement by appearing for three nights at Drury Lane . These three nights were the 26th May , when he played Bayes ; the 28th May , when he was King Lear to the Cordelia of Peg ...
52. oldal
... Dublin . ) Mrs. Woffington was the first to appear , opening at Smock - Alley theatre the 15th June , in her favourite " breeches part " of Sir Harry Wildair . Garrick followed on Friday as Richard the Third . His reputation had ...
... Dublin . ) Mrs. Woffington was the first to appear , opening at Smock - Alley theatre the 15th June , in her favourite " breeches part " of Sir Harry Wildair . Garrick followed on Friday as Richard the Third . His reputation had ...
53. oldal
... Dublin . Their latest assumptions were Captain Plume and Silvia in the Recruiting Officer , " the former a light comedy part , scarcely worthy of Garrick's ability ; the latter , a delightfully vivacious character , in which Peg ...
... Dublin . Their latest assumptions were Captain Plume and Silvia in the Recruiting Officer , " the former a light comedy part , scarcely worthy of Garrick's ability ; the latter , a delightfully vivacious character , in which Peg ...
54. oldal
Joseph Knight. kept . An epidemic attributed to excessive heat broke out in Dublin , and carried off large numbers of people . This in commemoration of the visit was christened the Garrick fever , a name destined subsequently to change ...
Joseph Knight. kept . An epidemic attributed to excessive heat broke out in Dublin , and carried off large numbers of people . This in commemoration of the visit was christened the Garrick fever , a name destined subsequently to change ...
59. oldal
... Dublin may be regarded as a country preparation for a London career . When on the 5th October , 1742 , as Chamont in the " Orphan " to the Monimia of Mrs. Pritchard , and the Castalio of Havard , he appeared as a salaried actor at Drury ...
... Dublin may be regarded as a country preparation for a London career . When on the 5th October , 1742 , as Chamont in the " Orphan " to the Monimia of Mrs. Pritchard , and the Castalio of Havard , he appeared as a salaried actor at Drury ...
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297. oldal - Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff of a dunce, he mistook it for fame; Till his relish grown callous, almost to disease, Who pepper'd the highest, was surest to please. But let us be candid, and speak out our mind, If dunces applauded, he paid them in kind.
322. oldal - Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer; "why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure if I had seen a ghost I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did.
297. oldal - Twas only that when he was off he was acting. With no reason on earth to go out of his way, He turn'd and he varied full ten times a day: Though secure of our hearts, yet confoundedly sick If they were not his own by finessing and trick...
297. oldal - Though secure of our hearts, yet confoundedly sick If they were not his own by finessing and trick ; He cast off his friends, as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleased he could whistle them back. Of praise a mere glutton, he swallowed what came, And the puff of a dunce, he mistook it for fame, Till his relish grown callous, almost to disease, Who peppered the highest, was surest to please.
322. oldal - ... sure, if I had seen a ghost, I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did. And then, to be sure, in that scene, as you called it, between him and his mother, where you told me he acted so fine, why, Lord help me, any man, that is, any good man, that had such a mother, would have done exactly the same. I know you are only joking with me ; but indeed, madam, though I was never at a play in London, yet I have seen acting before in the country ; and the king for my money;...
62. oldal - With very little variation of cadence, and in a deep, full tone, accompanied by a sawing kind of action, which had more of the senate than of the stage in it, he rolled out his heroics with an air of dignified indifference, that seemed to disdain the plaudits that were bestowed upon him.
220. oldal - Farewell, great painter of mankind ! Who reach'd the noblest point of art, Whose pictured morals charm the mind, And through the eye correct the heart. If Genius fire thee, reader, stay, If nature touch thee, drop a tear, If neither move thee — turn away — For Hogarth's honour'd dust lies here.
20. oldal - relating to Rogues, Vagabonds, Sturdy Beggars, and Vagrants 'into One Act of Parliament, and for the more effectual 'punishing such Rogues, Vagabonds, Sturdy Beggars, and ' Vagrants, and sending them whither they ought to be sent,' as relates to common Players of Interludes; and another Act passed in the twenty-eighth.
84. oldal - King ! Long live our noble King! God save the King! Send him victorious, Happy and glorious, Long to reign over us ! God save the King!
189. oldal - Vice's snares, She blunder'd on some virtue unawares; With all these blessings, which we seldom find Lavish'd by Nature on one happy mind, A motley figure, of the Fribble tribe, Which heart can scarce conceive, or pen describe, Came simpering on — to ascertain whose sex Twelve sage impannelTd matrons would perplex.