Occasional Papers: Dramatic and HistoricalBickers, 1906 - 251 oldal |
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... things . We can name on the fingers of one hand those plays that have survived and still hold their place on the stage . Home and Rowe , Murphy and Colman , Hill and D'Urfey , more or less popular authors of the day , they and their ...
... things . We can name on the fingers of one hand those plays that have survived and still hold their place on the stage . Home and Rowe , Murphy and Colman , Hill and D'Urfey , more or less popular authors of the day , they and their ...
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... things . Foremost of all , perhaps , was the absence of long runs- the bane , from the actor's point of view , of our modern stage ; the constant change of bill enabled the successful actor in the eighteenth century to cultivate and ...
... things . Foremost of all , perhaps , was the absence of long runs- the bane , from the actor's point of view , of our modern stage ; the constant change of bill enabled the successful actor in the eighteenth century to cultivate and ...
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... thing to mitigate the intrusion of these lollers in the wings ; but it was left to Garrick to abolish them . In these days the pit was looked on as containing the critical part of the audience . It occupied the whole of the floor of the ...
... thing to mitigate the intrusion of these lollers in the wings ; but it was left to Garrick to abolish them . In these days the pit was looked on as containing the critical part of the audience . It occupied the whole of the floor of the ...
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... things . But of reviews and sane criticism there was little enough . What we learn of the art of the actors of the eighteenth century we learn from books such as Cibber's Apology , Churchill's Rosciad . Davies's Life of Garrick , and ...
... things . But of reviews and sane criticism there was little enough . What we learn of the art of the actors of the eighteenth century we learn from books such as Cibber's Apology , Churchill's Rosciad . Davies's Life of Garrick , and ...
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... thing is possible , he is not altogether unsuccessful . Though Betterton's voice was manly rather than sweet , his figure short and inclining to corpulence , his limbs athletic rather than delicate , yet with these disadvantages he had ...
... thing is possible , he is not altogether unsuccessful . Though Betterton's voice was manly rather than sweet , his figure short and inclining to corpulence , his limbs athletic rather than delicate , yet with these disadvantages he had ...
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actor or actress actors and actresses admiration appearance Aram's arrest art of acting artist asked Assize Court audience Bancal Barton Booth Bastide and Jausion Betterton Booth Bousquier brother calling captain Cato character Charles Chief Justice Christopher Rich Cibber Clarke Clémandot Colard Colley Colley Cibber comedy court crime criticism Danby David Garrick death declared dramatic dramatist Drury Lane eighteenth century Eugene Aram father friends Fualdès Garrick genius gentleman Goodere hand Horace Walpole Houseman John Kemble judge Kemble King's Bench Knaresborough lady lives Lord Hatton Macklin Madame Manzon Mahony manager Missonier murder nature never night occasion Oldfield passion persons play players popular Prefect prisoners profession Quin regard replied resentment respect Rodez Samuel Scroggs Scroggs's Serjeant Siddons Sir Edward Blackett Sir John speak stage story success theatre theatrical things told tragedy trial truth vanity whilst wife Wilks William witness Woffington woman Bancal writes young
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116. oldal - Till one wide conflagration swallows all. Thence a new world, to nature's laws unknown, Breaks out refulgent, with a heaven its own: Another Cynthia her new journey runs, And other planets circle other suns. The forests dance, the rivers upward rise, Whales sport in woods, and dolphins in the skies; And last, to give the whole creation grace, Lo! one vast egg produces human race. Joy fills his soul, joy innocent of thought; What power, he cries, what power these wonders wrought?
13. oldal - I'll meet thee there. Loth. To-morrow, Oh, my better stars ! to-morrow Exert your influence ; shine strongly for me ; 'Tis not a common conquest I would gain, Since love as well as arms, must grace my triumph.
47. oldal - Sense may kindly end with ev'ry line? Some dozen lines before the Ghost is there, Behold him for the solemn scene prepare. See how he frames his eyes, poises each limb, Puts the whole body into proper trim. — From whence we learn, with no great stretch of art, Five lines hence comes a ghost, and, Ha ! a start.
107. oldal - of that false, flashy wit and forced humour which had been the delight of our metropolitan multitude, was only rated there (at Oxford) at its bare, intrinsic value.
50. oldal - Of neuter gender, though of Irish growth ; A six-foot suckling, mincing in Its gait, Affected, peevish, prim and delicate...
159. oldal - I slept soundly till three o'clock, awaked, and then writ these lines : " ' Come, pleasing Rest, eternal Slumber, fall ; Seal mine, that once must seal the eyes of all. Calm and composed my soul her journey takes, No guilt that troubles, and no heart that aches. Adieu ! thou Sun, all bright like her arise ; Adieu ! fair Friends, and all that's good and wise.
96. oldal - replied the old gentleman, all diamonded and powdered and dandified, "at eighty-four it is well for a man that he can look at all." . . . And now he crosses Piccadilly and passes through Albemarle Street, slowly but cheerfully, with an eye and a salutation for any pretty woman of his acquaintance, and with a word for any "good fellow" whose purse he has lightened, or who has lightened his, at dice or whist. And so he turns into...
110. oldal - To beseech gracefully, to approach respectfully, to pity, to mourn, to love, are the places wherein Wilks may be made to shine with the utmost beauty.
24. oldal - Plato's Book on the Immortality of the Soul. A drawn sword on the table by him. IT must be so Plato, thou reason'st well ! — Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought? why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction...
99. oldal - Gibber, himself be it remembered, a popular author, complains bitterly of the severity and impatience of the audiences in their reception of a new play. " The vivacity of our modern critics is of late grown so riotous that an unsuccessful author has no more mercy shown him than a notorious cheat in a pillory ; every fool, the lowest member of the mob, becomes a wit, and will have a fling at him. They come now to a new play like hounds to a carcase, and are all in a full cry, sometimes for an hour...