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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4. oldal
... true story . But whether true or false , it is insufferably entertaining , aud mischievously comical . The author has shewn consi- derable tact in dramatizing the original , -he has grafted on it a very interesting tale , and from a ...
... true story . But whether true or false , it is insufferably entertaining , aud mischievously comical . The author has shewn consi- derable tact in dramatizing the original , -he has grafted on it a very interesting tale , and from a ...
6. oldal
... true to every emotion . As a performance , it is , in every sense , unique of its kind . The author of " Monsieur Tonson , " Mr. Moncrieff , is well known as one of the most prolific dramatists of the present day . He can write a Farce ...
... true to every emotion . As a performance , it is , in every sense , unique of its kind . The author of " Monsieur Tonson , " Mr. Moncrieff , is well known as one of the most prolific dramatists of the present day . He can write a Farce ...
7. oldal
... true excellence ; but art without nature , is an automaton --a wax - work figure ; the semblance of life , not the reality . It is recorded that Garrick - " But in a fiction , in a dream of passion , Could force his soul so to his own ...
... true excellence ; but art without nature , is an automaton --a wax - work figure ; the semblance of life , not the reality . It is recorded that Garrick - " But in a fiction , in a dream of passion , Could force his soul so to his own ...
9. oldal
... true comic fidelity . His imitative talent occa- sionally indulged in the pleasant mischief of taking off his brother actors . He might sit for Incledon's portrait , and the artist himself be deceived . If he be not the identical Dicky ...
... true comic fidelity . His imitative talent occa- sionally indulged in the pleasant mischief of taking off his brother actors . He might sit for Incledon's portrait , and the artist himself be deceived . If he be not the identical Dicky ...
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... True , true . Ah ! I should never have left Eng- land , only I knew living was much cheaper in France ; and as I had but a very small fortune , I didn't wish to go beyond it ; that brought on all my misfortunes . Rus . Serve you right ...
... True , true . Ah ! I should never have left Eng- land , only I knew living was much cheaper in France ; and as I had but a very small fortune , I didn't wish to go beyond it ; that brought on all my misfortunes . Rus . Serve you right ...
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Cumberland's British Theatre, With Remarks, Biographical and Critical ... Thomas Dolby Nincs elérhető előnézet - 2017 |
Cumberland's British Theatre, With Remarks, Biographical and Critical ... Thomas Dolby Nincs elérhető előnézet - 2017 |
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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...