The Stage: Both Before and Behind the Curtain: From "observations Taken on the Spot.", Volum 2R. Bentley, 1840 |
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Pàgina 22
... fact that the only distinguished European state where so little dramatic talent is to be found , is the one where exorbitant prices are paid for its little- ness , will sooner or later be the cause of the utter prostration of the art ...
... fact that the only distinguished European state where so little dramatic talent is to be found , is the one where exorbitant prices are paid for its little- ness , will sooner or later be the cause of the utter prostration of the art ...
Pàgina 34
... fact that he was actuated by a feeling of concentrated hatred and malice . Let us examine the simple question of " what reason " could I possibly have for annoying Mr. Mac- " ready ? " We had been for years on intimate terms , PRECEPT ...
... fact that he was actuated by a feeling of concentrated hatred and malice . Let us examine the simple question of " what reason " could I possibly have for annoying Mr. Mac- " ready ? " We had been for years on intimate terms , PRECEPT ...
Pàgina 41
... fact , that the circumstances which have led to my engagement at this theatre , after an absence of 66 many years , are uppermost in your minds . Into " those circumstances I will not enter further than " two general observations ...
... fact , that the circumstances which have led to my engagement at this theatre , after an absence of 66 many years , are uppermost in your minds . Into " those circumstances I will not enter further than " two general observations ...
Pàgina 46
... fact that " he did fail on a fair trial . With respect to " his appearance at Covent Garden , I have never concealed from myself , and it would ill become me to attempt to varnish over to you , who have ex- pressed so very kind a ...
... fact that " he did fail on a fair trial . With respect to " his appearance at Covent Garden , I have never concealed from myself , and it would ill become me to attempt to varnish over to you , who have ex- pressed so very kind a ...
Pàgina 48
... fact , however , only by way of suggestion , " in case you think fit to try him at that in which I " think he would have the fairest chance , as exciting " the interest of Miss Mitford's friends , both critical " and otherwise ; and a ...
... fact , however , only by way of suggestion , " in case you think fit to try him at that in which I " think he would have the fairest chance , as exciting " the interest of Miss Mitford's friends , both critical " and otherwise ; and a ...
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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 |
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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.