The Stage: Both Before and Behind the Curtain: From "observations Taken on the Spot.", Volum 2R. Bentley, 1840 |
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Pàgina 3
... give that perfection of performance which you are now in " the habit of witnessing in those theatres ! ” — and again , ( question 714 , ) when interrogated as to lower- ing the prices giving satisfaction to the public , he returned for ...
... give that perfection of performance which you are now in " the habit of witnessing in those theatres ! ” — and again , ( question 714 , ) when interrogated as to lower- ing the prices giving satisfaction to the public , he returned for ...
Pàgina 4
... give a larger salary to an eminent performer than a larger theatre ? " his response was , " It may for 66 a moment , for the sake of opposition . A man having no capital embarked in a theatre of this " sort may say , ' My aim must be to ...
... give a larger salary to an eminent performer than a larger theatre ? " his response was , " It may for 66 a moment , for the sake of opposition . A man having no capital embarked in a theatre of this " sort may say , ' My aim must be to ...
Pàgina 10
... give a compa- rative stranger to the London boards a trial in the character of DOCTOR O'TOOLE . The exorbitant price paid for Mr. Power's talent , and the hopeless- ness of finding any one , for some time past , able to compete with it ...
... give a compa- rative stranger to the London boards a trial in the character of DOCTOR O'TOOLE . The exorbitant price paid for Mr. Power's talent , and the hopeless- ness of finding any one , for some time past , able to compete with it ...
Pàgina 14
... give an idea of the " outré nature of this piece , the whole dramatis persona ( Farren ex- " cepted ) have to dance throughout the third act . " If my production escaped on the first night , ( and from its plea- " santry I think it ...
... give an idea of the " outré nature of this piece , the whole dramatis persona ( Farren ex- " cepted ) have to dance throughout the third act . " If my production escaped on the first night , ( and from its plea- " santry I think it ...
Pàgina 18
... give me " leave then , I shall take the liberty of giving you " notice in good time before I go . 66 66 66 " Wishing , for your sake as well as my own , that " the piece may be prosperous , " I remain , Sir , " Your truly obliged " And ...
... give me " leave then , I shall take the liberty of giving you " notice in good time before I go . 66 66 66 " Wishing , for your sake as well as my own , that " the piece may be prosperous , " I remain , Sir , " Your truly obliged " And ...
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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.