Occasional Papers: Dramatic and HistoricalSmall, Maynard, 1907 - 225 oldal |
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36. oldal
... death at forty - two , Mrs. Woffington reigned supreme in the higher comedy . She could play Ophelia , Jane Shore , Hermione , and play them well ; but it was in such parts as Rosalind , in portraying fine ladies of high degree , that ...
... death at forty - two , Mrs. Woffington reigned supreme in the higher comedy . She could play Ophelia , Jane Shore , Hermione , and play them well ; but it was in such parts as Rosalind , in portraying fine ladies of high degree , that ...
49. oldal
... , Garrick repeatedly assisted the unfortunate poet , up to the hour of his untimely death , in 1764 , at the early age of thirty - three . Of a very different type from Churchill was another of 49 E IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
... , Garrick repeatedly assisted the unfortunate poet , up to the hour of his untimely death , in 1764 , at the early age of thirty - three . Of a very different type from Churchill was another of 49 E IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
52. oldal
... death outstripped his villainous purposes , and spared Garrick the humiliation of facing this clerical ruffian . Sixteen years after Garrick's death , Jackson committed suicide in the dock in Dublin , when he was about to be condemned ...
... death outstripped his villainous purposes , and spared Garrick the humiliation of facing this clerical ruffian . Sixteen years after Garrick's death , Jackson committed suicide in the dock in Dublin , when he was about to be condemned ...
53. oldal
... death , he enter- tained the table by an extravagantly comic assumption of grief . " By Foote's buffoonery and broad - faced merri- ment , " said Sir Joshua Reynolds , " private friendship , public decency , and everything estimable ...
... death , he enter- tained the table by an extravagantly comic assumption of grief . " By Foote's buffoonery and broad - faced merri- ment , " said Sir Joshua Reynolds , " private friendship , public decency , and everything estimable ...
56. oldal
... death . " In the height of the public admiration for you , " wrote Mrs. Clive , who had acted and quarrelled with Garrick all her life , " when you were never mentioned with any other appellation but the Garrick , the charming man , the ...
... death . " In the height of the public admiration for you , " wrote Mrs. Clive , who had acted and quarrelled with Garrick all her life , " when you were never mentioned with any other appellation but the Garrick , the charming man , the ...
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38. oldal - If I were a woman, I would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleased me, complexions that liked me, and breaths that I defied not...
32. oldal - Cold are those hands, which, living, were stretch'd forth, At friendship's call to succour modest worth. Here lies James Quin ! deign, reader, to be taught (Whate'er thy strength of body, force of thought, In nature's happiest mould however cast), To this complexion thou must come at last.
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?
61. oldal - ... is, and ought to be, in many points of view, and strictly speaking, no imitation at all of external nature. Perhaps it ought to be as far removed from the vulgar idea of imitation as the refined civilised state in which we live is removed from a gross state of nature...
25. oldal - I have often seen her in private societies, where women of the best rank might have borrowed some part of her behaviour without the least diminution of their sense or dignity...
56. oldal - Garrick, the charming man, the fine fellow, the delightful creature, both by men and ladies, when they were admiring everything you did and everything you scribbled, at this very time, /, the.
114. oldal - Circe,' and others, all set off with the most expensive decorations of scenes and habits, with the best voices and dancers. " This sensual supply of sight and sound coming in to the assistance of the weaker party, it was no wonder they should grow too hard for sense and simple nature, when it is considered how many more people there are that can see and hear than think and judge.
36. oldal - In spite of outward blemishes, she shone, For humour fam'd, and humour all her own. Easy, as if at home, the stage she trod, Nor sought the critic's praise, nor fear'd his rod. Original in spirit and in ease, She pleas'd by hiding all attempts to please. No comic actress ever yet could raise, On humour's base, more merit or more praise.
46. oldal - Here Havard, all serene, in the same strains, Loves, hates, and rages, triumphs, and complains ; His easy vacant face proclaim'da heart Which could not feel emotions, nor impart. With him came mighty Davies. On my life, That Davies hath a very pretty wife :— Statesman all over !— In plots famous grown !— He mouths a sentence, as curs mouth a bone.
130. oldal - To paint a fair one, it is necessary for 'me to see many fair ones; but because there is so ' great a scarcity of lovely women, I am constrained to * make use of one certain idea, which I have formed to