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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... just notice a few of his most promi- nent performances , as they start up in my memory . His Foresight was a perfect thing ; and his Corbaccio in the Fox astonished and delighted the best judges in the art . LIFE OF KEMBLE . 35.
... just notice a few of his most promi- nent performances , as they start up in my memory . His Foresight was a perfect thing ; and his Corbaccio in the Fox astonished and delighted the best judges in the art . LIFE OF KEMBLE . 35.
38. oldal
... thing so versatile and multiform , that it " seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion " thereof ... things , a " counterfeit speech , a mimical look or gesture passeth for " it sometimes an affected simplicity ...
... thing so versatile and multiform , that it " seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion " thereof ... things , a " counterfeit speech , a mimical look or gesture passeth for " it sometimes an affected simplicity ...
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... thing I have seen in farce : I mean that of poor Tom's abstraction , while in his mind's he sees the whole procession of Lady Godiva pass before him . This was a thing of pure fancy and infinitely productive . You would have sworn to ...
... thing I have seen in farce : I mean that of poor Tom's abstraction , while in his mind's he sees the whole procession of Lady Godiva pass before him . This was a thing of pure fancy and infinitely productive . You would have sworn to ...
46. oldal
... thing was ever done . Who , besides , was there in existence to give them voice and gesture , and preserve , as he did , faith- ful copies of the distinguished originals ? He used to revive his Garrick also in some of the busy scenes of ...
... thing was ever done . Who , besides , was there in existence to give them voice and gesture , and preserve , as he did , faith- ful copies of the distinguished originals ? He used to revive his Garrick also in some of the busy scenes of ...
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... thing may be said , and with equal justice , of her usual attendant , Miss Pope , the paragon of chambermaids ; the pert , sly , jocose Abigail of modern comedy : but her ex- cellence cannot be comprehended in a definition ; it was too ...
... thing may be said , and with equal justice , of her usual attendant , Miss Pope , the paragon of chambermaids ; the pert , sly , jocose Abigail of modern comedy : but her ex- cellence cannot be comprehended in a definition ; it was too ...
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370. 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...
58. oldal - I have of late— but wherefore I know not— lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed 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 vapours.
201. oldal - Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?
38. 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.
555. oldal - A play read affects the mind like a play acted. It is therefore evident that the action is not supposed to be real; and it follows that between the acts a longer or shorter time may be allowed to pass, and that no more account of space or duration is to be taken by the auditor of a drama...
89. oldal - We are alarmed into reflection ; our minds (as it has long since been observed) are purified by terror and pity; our weak unthinking pride is humbled, under the dispensations of a mysterious wisdom. Some tears might be drawn from me, if such a spectacle were exhibited on the stage. I should be truly ashamed of finding in myself that superficial, theatric sense of painted distress, whilst I could exult over it in real life.
65. 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...
38. 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.
38. oldal - ... from a lucky hitting upon what is strange ; sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose. Often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable, and inexplicable ; being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy, and windings of language.
354. oldal - Thou clapp'st thy rattling fingers to thy sides. And when this solemn mockery is o'er, "With icy hand thou tak'st him by the feet, And upward, so, till thou dost reach the heart, And wrap him in the cloak of 'lasting night.