The Stage: Both Before and Behind the Curtain: From "observations Taken on the Spot.", Volum 2R. Bentley, 1840 |
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Pàgina 14
... called , more legiti- mate offspring of the dramatic muse , would not only be acceptable but profitable . It was not unnatural to suppose that the great body of the discontented , who had been so clamorous many weeks past for the full ...
... called , more legiti- mate offspring of the dramatic muse , would not only be acceptable but profitable . It was not unnatural to suppose that the great body of the discontented , who had been so clamorous many weeks past for the full ...
Pàgina 20
... called upon by extra taxation , through the medium of annual dinners , to make up for the wanton extravagance of ill - regulated people . The contributions of the profession itself to these funds ought to be ample for the support of its ...
... called upon by extra taxation , through the medium of annual dinners , to make up for the wanton extravagance of ill - regulated people . The contributions of the profession itself to these funds ought to be ample for the support of its ...
Pàgina 31
... called to see him , and was admitted into the chamber of the sick tragedian , who faintly implied a belief in his approaching dissolution . Elliston expressed a strong hope of his recovery ; and , with deep regret at his prostration ...
... called to see him , and was admitted into the chamber of the sick tragedian , who faintly implied a belief in his approaching dissolution . Elliston expressed a strong hope of his recovery ; and , with deep regret at his prostration ...
Pàgina 32
... called on to do a similar thing ; which undertaking , to preserve peace and quiet , Mr. Cooper gave , and which determination Mr. Macready persevered in , although her Majesty expressed a wish for the Second Part of Shakspeare's Henry ...
... called on to do a similar thing ; which undertaking , to preserve peace and quiet , Mr. Cooper gave , and which determination Mr. Macready persevered in , although her Majesty expressed a wish for the Second Part of Shakspeare's Henry ...
Pàgina 36
... called in his absence , and then demanding his London salary for the week he had been playing in the country , was another and a very grievous one . There was plenty of cause given ME for being violent , but “ I bore it with a patient ...
... called in his absence , and then demanding his London salary for the week he had been playing in the country , was another and a very grievous one . There was plenty of cause given ME for being violent , but “ I bore it with a patient ...
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The Stage: Both Before and Behind the Curtain: From "observations ..., Volum 2 Alfred Bunn Visualització completa - 1840 |
The Stage: Both Before and Behind the Curtain: From "observations ..., Volum 2 Alfred Bunn Visualització completa - 1840 |
The Stage: Both Before and Behind the Curtain: From "observations ..., Volum 2 Alfred Bunn Visualització completa - 1840 |
Frases i termes més freqüents
66 MY DEAR Act of Parliament actor actress advertised Alfred Bunn amongst announced appear audience Bartley Bulwer character Charles Kean Charles Kemble circumstances Colman Covent Garden Theatre DEAR SIR death Ditto drama Drury Lane Theatre Elliston engagement entertainment examiner of plays farce favour feeling fees Fidelio Forrest Friday genius gentlemen give honour Isoline Jewess Jules Kean La Sonnambula lessee letter license London Lord Chamberlain lordship Macready Macready's Madame Malibran Mademoiselle Maid of Artois Majesty Malibran de Beriot manager ment Miss Monsieur de Beriot morning never night nightly average novelty obedient servant occasion opinion Otway pantomime parties patent theatres performance person piece possessed present produced proprietors reader receipt received reply respect Royal Drury Lane scene season Serjeant Talfourd Shakspeare sing song Sonnambula stage subjoined Taglioni talent Theatre Royal Drury theatrical tion Tipperary tragedy wish
Passatges populars
Pàgina 226 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No. Doth he hear it? No. Is it insensible then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living ? No. Why? Detraction will not suffer it :— therefore I'll none of it : Honour is a mere scutcheon, and so ends my catechism.
Pàgina 266 - Ah ! let not Censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice ; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live.
Pàgina 225 - To give me audience : — If the midnight bell Did with his iron tongue and brazen mouth, Sound one unto the drowsy race of night; If this same were a church-yard where we stand...
Pàgina 33 - Why should that name be sounded more than yours ? Write them together, yours is as fair a name; Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well; Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with 'em, Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar.
Pàgina 219 - Killigrew his heirs and assigns from time to time to act plays and entertainments of the stage of all sorts peaceably and quietly without the impeachment or impediment of any person or persons whatsoever for the honest recreation of such as shall desire to see the same.
Pàgina 242 - The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils ; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.
Pàgina 219 - D'avenant, his heirs or assigns, from time to time, to act plays and entertainments of the stage, of all sorts, peaceably and quietly, without the impeachment or impediment of any person or persons whatsoever, for the honest recreation of such as shall desire to see the same.
Pàgina 65 - I therefore arranged that, behind the pile of drifted sand on which she falls in a state of exhaustion, towards the close of the desert scene, a small aperture should be made in the stage ; and it is a fact that, from underneath the stage through that aperture, a pewter pint of porter was conveyed to the parched lips of this rare...
Pàgina 189 - ... interlude, tragedy, comedy, opera, play, farce or other entertainment of the stage...
Pàgina 37 - ... suffering under these accumulated provocations, I was betrayed, in a moment of unguarded passion, into an intemperate and imprudent act, for which I feel, and shall never cease to feel, the deepest and most poignant self-reproach and regret. "It is to you, ladies and gentlemen, and to myself, that I owe this declaration, and I make it with unaffected sincerity. " To liberal and generous minds, I think, I need say no more. " I cannot resist thanking you.