Cumberland's British Theatre: With Remarks, Biographical and Critical : Printed from the Acting Copies, as Performed at the Theatres-royal, London, 13. kötetJohn Cumberland, 1826 |
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vi. oldal
... There is no resisting the Spirit , " quoth Mrs. Prim - aud to resist the effects of Mr. Fawcett's acting , requires a more absolute command of muscle than we , who are old play - goers , venture to lay claim to . There ' is not a more ...
... There is no resisting the Spirit , " quoth Mrs. Prim - aud to resist the effects of Mr. Fawcett's acting , requires a more absolute command of muscle than we , who are old play - goers , venture to lay claim to . There ' is not a more ...
11. oldal
... there is no harm Well , after all that , money has a charm . But now , indeed , that stale invention's past ; Besides ... There's something tempting in the preaching dress ! And pleas'd me more than once a dame of note , Who loved her ...
... there is no harm Well , after all that , money has a charm . But now , indeed , that stale invention's past ; Besides ... There's something tempting in the preaching dress ! And pleas'd me more than once a dame of note , Who loved her ...
14. oldal
... there's no parlying with the fair sex . Col. F. Were the lady her own mistress , I have some reasons to believe I should soon command in chief . Free . You know Miss Lovely , Mr. Sackbut Sack . Know her ! Ay , poor Nancy ; I have ...
... there's no parlying with the fair sex . Col. F. Were the lady her own mistress , I have some reasons to believe I should soon command in chief . Free . You know Miss Lovely , Mr. Sackbut Sack . Know her ! Ay , poor Nancy ; I have ...
16. oldal
... there's nothing impossible to a lover . What would not a man attempt for a fine woman and thirty thousand pounds ... there . - But what do you intend ? Col. F. Oh , I shall address him in his own way , and find what he designs to do with ...
... there's nothing impossible to a lover . What would not a man attempt for a fine woman and thirty thousand pounds ... there . - But what do you intend ? Col. F. Oh , I shall address him in his own way , and find what he designs to do with ...
18. oldal
... There's some- thing so jantee in a soldier , a kind of je ne sçais quoi air , that makes them more agreeable than all the rest of mankind . They command regard , as when they shall say , " We are your defenders ; we preserve your ...
... There's some- thing so jantee in a soldier , a kind of je ne sçais quoi air , that makes them more agreeable than all the rest of mankind . They command regard , as when they shall say , " We are your defenders ; we preserve your ...
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Amanda Caliph character colonel Count Covent Garden Croaker Crosses daughter dear devil Doctor Bolus door dress Duke Enter Exeunt Exit father Fatma Feignwell fellow fortune Free Freeman gentleman girl give Guyenne happy hear heart heaven Honeywood honour hope Hostess husband Jarvis JOHN CUMBERLAND Juliana King Kitty lady Lampedo laugh Leontine letter look lord LUDGATE HILL madam marry master minuet Miss L Miss Richland Moll Mopsa Mynheer never night Nippe Obad Oberon Olivia pardon Peggy Periwinkle Phil Philip Poggylina Pray Prim Queen Rash Rent Sack Sackbut Sadak Scara Scaramoucho SCENE servant Sherasmin Sir H Sir Huon Soph Sophia soul spirit sure tell Theatre Royal thee there's thing thou Trade Tradelove Trumore Tunis wife woman Zounds
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7. oldal - A blank, my lord. She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i...
6. oldal - But peace to his spirit, wherever it flies To act as an angel and mix with the skies ! Those poets who owe their best fame to his skill Shall still be his flatterers, go where he will, Old...
48. oldal - Or pore over you through a microscope, to see how your blood circulates from the crown of your head to the sole of your foot...
18. oldal - Encompassed in an angel's frame, An angel's virtues lay ; Too soon did heaven assert the claim, And call its own away. My Anna's worth, my Anna's charms, Must never more return ! What now shall fill these widow'd arms ? Ah, me ! my Anna's urn !" It is some confirmation of this conjecture, that General Burgoyne contracted no second marriage.
7. oldal - The playful humour ; he could now endure (Himself grown sober in the vale of tears) And feel a parent's presence no restraint. But not to understand a treasure's worth Till time has stolen away the slighted good, Is cause of half the poverty we feel, And makes the world the wilderness it is.
20. oldal - Who, Nancy Lovely? I am a piece of a guardian to that lady : you must know, her father, I thank him, joined me with three of the most preposterous old fellows — that, upon...
23. oldal - Tis well ! For the first fortnight, ruder than March winds, She'll blow a hurricane. The next, perhaps, Like April, she may wear a changeful face Of storm and sunshine : — and, when that is past, She will break glorious as unclouded May ; And where the thorns grew bare, the spreading blossoms Meet with no lagging frost to kill their sweetness. — Whilst others, for a month's delirious joy, Buy a dull age of penance ; we, more wisely, Taste first the wholesome bitter of the cup, That...
10. oldal - TO-NIGHT we come upon a bold design, To try to please without one borrow'd line ; Our plot is new and regularly clear, And not one single tittle from Moliere. O'er buried poets we with caution tread, And parish sextons leave to rob the dead.
27. oldal - O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name; Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, And I'll no longer be a Capulet.
43. oldal - I might have travelled over all the known parts of the globe, and made my own closet rival the Vatican at Rome — Odso, I have a good mind to begin my travels now — let me...