The Savoy Opera and the SavoyardsChatto & Windus, 1899 - 248 pàgines |
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12 Illustrations actor admirable audience Ballads BRAHAM buckram burlesque called character CHARLES chorus cloth extra cloth limp colour Comedy comic opera composer Crown 8vo D'Oyly Carte dance Daughter Demy 8vo dramatic Dramatis Personæ dresses DUKE Durward Lely effect entertainment fairy fashion Fcap Frontispiece GEORGE GROSSMITH Gilbertian gilt top Girl Gondoliers grotesque H.M.S. Pinafore half-bound humour illustrated boards Iolanthe Jack JANE ANNIE JESSIE BOND JOHN KING Lady London Lord Love major-general manager Master ment Mikado MISS BRANDRAM MISS JESSIE BOND never night Notes Novels performance persons picture boards piece Pirates of Penzance play pleasant Poems POPULAR EDITION Portrait Post 8vo Princess Queen rehearsal Romance ROSINA BRANDRAM Ruddigore RUTLAND BARRINGTON Savoy opera Savoy Theatre scenes seems singers Sketches song sort stage Stories success Tarantara TEMPLE thing Tragedy Translated Utopian Verse VIZETELLY voice W. S. GILBERT WALTER young
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Pàgina 5 - Complete in Three Vols. Vol. I. contains the Plays complete, including the doubtful ones; Vol. II. the Poems and Minor Translations, with an Introductory Essay by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE ; Vol.
Pàgina 15 - Syntax's (Dr.) Three Tours: In Search of the Picturesque, in Search of Consolation, and in Search of a Wife. With the whole of ROWLANDSON'S droll page Illustrations in Colours and a Life of the Author by JC HOTTEN.
Pàgina 67 - Things are seldom what they seem, Skim milk masquerades as cream; Highlows pass as patent leathers; Jackdaws strut in peacock's feathers.
Pàgina 25 - When I, good friends, was called to the bar, I'd an appetite fresh and hearty, But I was, as many young barristers are, An impecunious party. I'da swallow-tail coat of a beautiful blue — A brief which I bought of a booby — A couple of shirts and a collar or two, And a ring that looked like a ruby ! CHORUS.
Pàgina 81 - WHEN a felon's not engaged in his employment, Or maturing his felonious little plans, His capacity for innocent enjoyment Is just as great as any honest man's. Our feelings we with difficulty smother When constabulary duty's to be done : Ah, take one consideration with another, A policeman's lot is not a happy one...
Pàgina 75 - I'm very good at integral and differential calculus; I know the scientific names of beings animalculous: In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General.
Pàgina 142 - Spurn not the nobly born With love affected, Nor treat with virtuous scorn The well-connected. High rank involves no shame — We boast an equal claim With him of humble name To be respected!
Pàgina 14 - Strutt's Sports and Pastimes of the People of England; including the Rural and Domestic Recreations, May Games, Mummeries, Shows, Processions, Pageants, and Pompous Spectacles, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time.
Pàgina 245 - Like this. KING. We take your word for it that this is all right. You are not making fun of us? This is in accordance with the practice at the Court of St. James's?
Pàgina 67 - Black sheep dwell in every fold; All that glitters is not gold; Storks turn out to be but logs; Bulls are but inflated frogs.