Cumberland's British Theatre: With Remarks, Biographical & Critical. Printed from the Acting Copies, as Performed at the Theatres Royal, London...J. Cumberland, 1827 |
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12. oldal
... Plays but those which they have seen acted . The Stage Directions are given from their own personal observations , during the most recent performances . EXITS and ENTRANCES . R. means Right ; L. Left ; D. F. Door in Flat ; R. D. Right ...
... Plays but those which they have seen acted . The Stage Directions are given from their own personal observations , during the most recent performances . EXITS and ENTRANCES . R. means Right ; L. Left ; D. F. Door in Flat ; R. D. Right ...
14. oldal
... playing at hide and seek to some wealthy fool to wed her . Was there ever such folly ? Oh ! Jack Ardour- ly , Jack Ardourly ! Ard . Laugh at me , if you please , but hear me . If love is a folly , it is one I am up to my neck in . Ten ...
... playing at hide and seek to some wealthy fool to wed her . Was there ever such folly ? Oh ! Jack Ardour- ly , Jack Ardourly ! Ard . Laugh at me , if you please , but hear me . If love is a folly , it is one I am up to my neck in . Ten ...
5. oldal
... play to some previous writer , giving to Shakspeare the almost negative merit of retouching and polishing the scenes . In reading over the comments of this plausible critic , and very singular man , we have often felt disposed to ...
... play to some previous writer , giving to Shakspeare the almost negative merit of retouching and polishing the scenes . In reading over the comments of this plausible critic , and very singular man , we have often felt disposed to ...
6. oldal
... play are improbable - perhaps impos- sible- " There needs no ghost come from the grave " To tell us that . " But the author's intention was to excite mirth , which he has done in a very extraordinary degree , by the mistakes arising ...
... play are improbable - perhaps impos- sible- " There needs no ghost come from the grave " To tell us that . " But the author's intention was to excite mirth , which he has done in a very extraordinary degree , by the mistakes arising ...
7. oldal
... play . The pathetic narrative of the shipwreck , the broad humour of the succeeding scenes , and the affecting close , are admirably diver- sified . It was the delight of Shakspeare to excite a variety of emotions to chasten our most ...
... play . The pathetic narrative of the shipwreck , the broad humour of the succeeding scenes , and the affecting close , are admirably diver- sified . It was the delight of Shakspeare to excite a variety of emotions to chasten our most ...
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Adolphine Aldwinkle Antipholis Barbadoes better breeches Broad Bustle coat Comedy of Errors Crosses Dame dear devil Dickory door Dromio Duke Elderberry Ellen Enter Ephesus Exeunt Exit father feedle fellow feyther gentleman Geoffry Georgiana give happy hear heart here's honour husband Inkle Jessy King knock lady look Lord LUDGATE HILL ma'am madam Mary master Miss Vor Miss Vortex Monsieur Tonson Morbleu Nabob Narcissa never Nicodemus Oatland Old Rapid poor pray Rosine SCENE servant shew Sir Christopher Sir G Sir Guy Sir Hub Sir Hubert Stanley Suck sure SYRACUSE tell Templeton Theatres Royal thee thing Thom thou Tom King Trudge Usef Vincent waistcoat What's wife Wing Wows Wowski Yarico Young Rapid Zounds
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3. oldal - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
8. oldal - Biron they call him ; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch The other turns to a mirth-moving jest...
8. oldal - Tis education forms the common mind ; Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
3. oldal - Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest ; Fate never wounds more deep the gen'rous heart, Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart.
5. oldal - Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.
4. oldal - Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore, And shouting Folly hails them from her shore ; Hoards e'en beyond the miser's wish abound, And rich men flock from all the world around.
7. oldal - Is it not monstrous that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit That from her working all his visage wann'd, Tears in his eyes, distraction in his aspect, A broken voice, and his whole function suiting With forms to his conceit?
18. oldal - Retain that dear perfection which he owes Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name, And for thy. name, which is no part of thee, Take all myself.
3. oldal - Boastful and rough, your first son is a squire; The next a tradesman, meek, and much a liar; Tom struts a soldier, open, bold, and brave; Will sneaks a scrivener, an exceeding knave: Is he a Churchman?
4. oldal - No zephyr fondly sues the mountain's breast, But meteors glare, and stormy glooms invest. Yet still, even here, content can spread a charm, Redress the clime, and all its rage disarm. Though poor the peasant's hut, his feasts though small He sees his little lot the lot of all...