A New History of the English Stage, from the Restoration to the Liberty of the Theatres, in Connection with the Patent Houses ...Tinsley brothers, 1882 - 900 oldal |
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... entered the royal box and grazed the person of the King . The audience rose in indignation against the perpetrator of this atrocious attempt , and seemed preparing to revenge the outrage , when at that moment the whole fore part of the ...
... entered the royal box and grazed the person of the King . The audience rose in indignation against the perpetrator of this atrocious attempt , and seemed preparing to revenge the outrage , when at that moment the whole fore part of the ...
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... this pamphlet twenty - five years , it is remarkable that I have never seen another copy of it . " The author of the present work has seen one . entered ; and if a company came to any place 48 A NEW HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH STAGE ,
... this pamphlet twenty - five years , it is remarkable that I have never seen another copy of it . " The author of the present work has seen one . entered ; and if a company came to any place 48 A NEW HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH STAGE ,
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Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald. entered ; and if a company came to any place where he ex- hibited his compositions , he would use all his art to evacuate the place of these interlopers as he called them . He was never out of his way ; for ...
Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald. entered ; and if a company came to any place where he ex- hibited his compositions , he would use all his art to evacuate the place of these interlopers as he called them . He was never out of his way ; for ...
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... entered in our daily pay - roll , which plain record everyone looked upon as good as City security . " Thus , when Mr. Highmore made the purchase of that large share of the patent , the performers ( as appears above ) were free to ...
... entered in our daily pay - roll , which plain record everyone looked upon as good as City security . " Thus , when Mr. Highmore made the purchase of that large share of the patent , the performers ( as appears above ) were free to ...
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... entered into a landed estate of 6000l . a year . He was agreeable in his person ; and the qualities of his mind , and amiableness of his disposition , carried with them irresistible attractions ; all the nobility of the kingdom seemed ...
... entered into a landed estate of 6000l . a year . He was agreeable in his person ; and the qualities of his mind , and amiableness of his disposition , carried with them irresistible attractions ; all the nobility of the kingdom seemed ...
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acting actor actress appeared applause audience Beggar's Opera benefit Booth boxes brought called character Cibber Colley Cibber Colman comedians comedy Covent Garden Theatre curious dramatic dress Drury Lane Theatre Duke Elliston engaged entertainment extraordinary farce favour Fleetwood Foote gallery Garrick gave gentleman give Goodman's Fields grace green-room guineas Harris Haymarket Haymarket Theatre heard Highmore honour humour interest James Lacy Kemble King Lacy lady late licence Lincoln's Inn Fields lived London Lord Chamberlain Macklin Majesty manager matter ment Miss never night occasion opera pantomime patent patent theatres performers person Peter Moore piece play players playhouse present proprietors Quin received rehearsal Rich salary Samuel Whitbread says scenes season seemed servants Sheridan soon stage success Tate Wilkinson Theatre Royal theatrical thought told took town tragedy voice whole Wilks young
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317. oldal - ... who has lengthened, and one who has gladdened life ; with Dr. James, whose skill in physic will be long remembered ; and with David Garrick, whom I hoped to have gratified with this character of our common friend. But what are the hopes of man ? I am disappointed by that stroke of death which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.
165. oldal - Nature fled. But forc'd, at length, her ancient reign to quit, She saw great Faustus lay the ghost of Wit; Exulting Folly hail'd the joyful day, And Pantomime and Song confirm'd her sway.
288. oldal - JOHNSON. " Because, Sir, she is a favourite of the public ; and when the public cares the thousandth part for you that it does for her, I will go to your benefit too.
25. oldal - He began on it ; and" when first he mentioned it to Swift, the doctor did not much like the project. As he carried it on, he showed what he wrote to both of us, and we now and then gave a correction, or a word or two of advice ; but it was wholly of his own writing.
252. oldal - ... by the name aforesaid shall be able and capable in law to have, hold, receive, enjoy, possess and retain for...
165. oldal - With every meteor of caprice must play, And chase the new-blown bubbles of the day. 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.
164. 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.
217. oldal - Not content with this, he proceeded to declare, that the author possessed the true theatric genius of Shakspeare and Otway, refined from the unhappy barbarism of the one and the licentiousness of the other.
187. oldal - WITH that low cunning, which in fools supplies, -* And amply too, the place of being wise, Which Nature, kind, indulgent parent ! gave To qualify the blockhead for a knave...
127. oldal - The trial scene wound up the fulness of my reputation. Here I was well listened to, and here I made such a silent yet forcible impression on my audience, that I retired from this great attempt most perfectly satisfied. On my return to the green-room, after the play was over, it was crowded with nobility and critics, who all complimented me in the warmest and most unbounded manner ; and the situation I felt myself in, I must confess, was one of the most flattering and intoxicating of my whole life....