Memoirs of the Life of John Philip Kemble, Esq: Including a History of the Stage, from the Time of Garrick to the Present Period, 1. kötetR.H. Small, 1825 - 607 oldal |
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... studies of infinite accuracy , pointed out as the true objects of the tragedian . In the almost childish season of life , I imbibed that fondness for the stage , which , shall I say , compelled me to attend to it with constancy and ...
... studies of infinite accuracy , pointed out as the true objects of the tragedian . In the almost childish season of life , I imbibed that fondness for the stage , which , shall I say , compelled me to attend to it with constancy and ...
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... studies . His memory . bon . Kemble . Comes to England . ton . · Play of Charles the First . Mr. His education . Notices of him Original bent of mind . Gib- First efforts . Bishop Warbur- pp . 1-11 CHAP . II . His York engagement . His ...
... studies . His memory . bon . Kemble . Comes to England . ton . · Play of Charles the First . Mr. His education . Notices of him Original bent of mind . Gib- First efforts . Bishop Warbur- pp . 1-11 CHAP . II . His York engagement . His ...
xviii. oldal
... studies . Love of accuracy . Macnally's Robin Hood . Commemoration of Handel . Cowper's censure controverted . Ardour of Mrs. Siddons . Mrs. Abington . Lord Mans- field . Macklin . The great decision as to the rights of audience and 84 ...
... studies . Love of accuracy . Macnally's Robin Hood . Commemoration of Handel . Cowper's censure controverted . Ardour of Mrs. Siddons . Mrs. Abington . Lord Mans- field . Macklin . The great decision as to the rights of audience and 84 ...
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... studies . His memory . - Original bent of mind .-- Gibbon . -Kemble . - Comes to England . - First efforts . - Bishop Warburton . THE biography of an actor is the record of his art . To endeavour after any other fame than excellence in ...
... studies . His memory . - Original bent of mind .-- Gibbon . -Kemble . - Comes to England . - First efforts . - Bishop Warburton . THE biography of an actor is the record of his art . To endeavour after any other fame than excellence in ...
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... studies in the course prescribed by his religion ; and he was accordingly , at the usual period , removed to the English college at Douay , to qualify him , at all events , for one of the learned professions . I have heard the system of ...
... studies in the course prescribed by his religion ; and he was accordingly , at the usual period , removed to the English college at Douay , to qualify him , at all events , for one of the learned professions . I have heard the system of ...
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56. oldal - I have of late (but wherefore, I know not) lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and, indee'd, it goes so heavily with my disposition, that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me, than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors.
368. oldal - twere with a defeated joy, With one auspicious and one dropping eye, With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage, In equal scale weighing delight and dole...
63. oldal - Angels and ministers of grace defend us! Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd, Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane, O, answer me!
449. oldal - Dire was the tossing, deep the groans : Despair Tended the sick, busiest from couch to couch ; And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, but delay'd to strike, though oft invoked With vows, as their chief good, and final hope.
224. oldal - For rising merit will buoy up at last. Might he return, and bless once more our eyes, New...
388. oldal - They boast they come but to improve our state, enlarge our thoughts, and free us from the yoke of error ! Yes : they will give enlightened freedom to our minds, who are themselves the slaves of passion, avarice, and pride ! They offer us their protection : yes, such protection as vultures give to lambs— covering and devouring them! They call...
256. oldal - AN old song made by an aged old pate, Of an old worshipful gentleman, who had a great estate, That kept a brave old house at a bountiful rate, And an old porter to relieve the poor at his gate ; Like an old courtier of the queen's, And the queen's old courtier.
36. oldal - Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale; sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense or the affinity of their sound...
36. oldal - ... an objection : sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense: sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a mimical look or gesture passeth for it.
185. oldal - That must be utter'd to unfold the sage And serious doctrine of Virginity; And thou art worthy that thou shouldst not know More happiness than this thy present lot. Enjoy your dear Wit and gay Rhetoric 790 That hath so well been taught...