Memoirs of His Own Life, Volum 2author, 1790 |
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Pàgina 7
... audience confifting of the first perfonages ; and it is poffible the best speaker in the House of Com- mons if put really to act on the ftage would feel not only awkward , but likely inferior in point of freedom and expreffion to the ...
... audience confifting of the first perfonages ; and it is poffible the best speaker in the House of Com- mons if put really to act on the ftage would feel not only awkward , but likely inferior in point of freedom and expreffion to the ...
Pàgina 13
... audience to render it fafhionable , he knew it was poffible , having been a witness to his faid imitation at Portsmouth ; and as the fame per- formance might render her , as an actress , ridicu , * lous , and as she was at that time B 6 ...
... audience to render it fafhionable , he knew it was poffible , having been a witness to his faid imitation at Portsmouth ; and as the fame per- formance might render her , as an actress , ridicu , * lous , and as she was at that time B 6 ...
Pàgina 16
... audience in the world for candour and liberality - for fuch London certainly is when un- biassed ; —it most affuredly commands and deserves that appellation.I found myself much more alarmed than I expected I should have been , for the ...
... audience in the world for candour and liberality - for fuch London certainly is when un- biassed ; —it most affuredly commands and deserves that appellation.I found myself much more alarmed than I expected I should have been , for the ...
Pàgina 17
... audience grew very impatient by seeing my exit , and judged that was all the new actor was to do ; and feeling a disappointment , from murmuring they grew im- patient , and at last burst out into vehemently ask- ing for Wilkinson , and ...
... audience grew very impatient by seeing my exit , and judged that was all the new actor was to do ; and feeling a disappointment , from murmuring they grew im- patient , and at last burst out into vehemently ask- ing for Wilkinson , and ...
Pàgina 18
... the curtain was down he went on and affured the audience he was much honoured by their approbation , and with their permiffion would the next night repeat the fame piece again - which they had expected he would do 18 MEMOIRS OF.
... the curtain was down he went on and affured the audience he was much honoured by their approbation , and with their permiffion would the next night repeat the fame piece again - which they had expected he would do 18 MEMOIRS OF.
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Frases i termes més freqüents
Abington acted actor actreſs affiftance affured againſt alfo almoſt alſo anſwer applauſe aſked audience Bajazet Barry and Woodward benefit beſt caufe cauſe character confequence Crow-ftreet defired Drury-Lane Dublin fafe faid fame farce faſhion fatire favour fecond feemed fent feveral fhall fhort finiſhed firft firſt fituation fome fometimes foon Foote Foote's ftage ftill ftrong fuccefs fuch fuperior fuppofed fupport fure Garrick gentleman himſelf honour horſe houfe houſe increaſed Jane Shore lady laft laſt laugh leaſt lefs London Lord Lord Chamberlain Macklin Mifs Moffop moft moſt muft muſt myſelf never night obferve occafion Othello perfons performers play pleaſed pleaſure poffible Portſmouth prefent promiſed purpoſe racter raiſe reaſon refpect rehearſal requeſt ſaid ſcene ſeeing ſeemed ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhould Shuter Sir Francis ſpeak ſpirits ſtage ſtate ſuch TATE WILKINSON theatre theatrical themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thought tion univerfal unleſs uſed vifit Wilkinſon wiſhed
Passatges populars
Pàgina 199 - I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory ; But far beyond my depth ; my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary, and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Pàgina 39 - I should take it, for it cannot be But I am pigeon-liver'd, and lack gall To make oppression bitter, or ere this I should have fatted all the region kites With this slave's offal.
Pàgina 39 - Why, what an ass am I! This is most brave, That I, the son of a dear father murdered, Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell, Must like a whore unpack my heart with words, And fall a-cursing like a very drab, A scullion!
Pàgina 153 - For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day ; But he who is in battle slain Can never rise and fight again.
Pàgina 199 - This is the state of man : To-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope ; to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him : The third day, comes a frost, a killing frost; And, — when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Pàgina 23 - Gibber thought the new player " well enough," but Foote, with the malice that was natural to him, remarked, " Yes, the hound has something clever, but if his excellence was to be examined, he would not be found in any part equal to Colley Gibber's Sir John Brute, Lord Foppington, Sir Courtly Nice, or Justice Shallow.
Pàgina 183 - A pleafant fellow. —Who were your parents ? Shift. I was produced, Sir, by a left-handed marriage, in the language of the news-papers, between an illuftrious lamp-lighter and an eminent itinerant cat and dog butcher. — Cat's meat, and dog's meat 1 dare fay, you have heard my mother, Sir.
Pàgina 183 - Here, firrah, light me a-crofs the kennel. ——I hope your honour will remember poor Jack. You ragged rafcal, I have no halfpence I'll pay you the next time I fee you. But, lack-a-day, fir, that time I faw as feldom as his tradefmen.
Pàgina 94 - O, what an infernal limb of an actress you'll make ! What ! not know the meaning of prentice ! Why prentice, ma'am, is the plural of prentices !" The complaints of this original to the Dublin stage-manager upon her daughter's wrongs, are equally comic. " Sir, you have not used my daughter well, 'pon my sould, and Barry has left her in ' Love's Last Shift
Pàgina 28 - ... why will you take a liberty with these gentlemen the players, and without my consent ? you never consulted or told me you were to take off, as you call it ; hey, why now, I never take such liberties — indeed I once did it, but I gave up such dd impudence.