Proceedings at the ... Anniversary Festival of the General Theatrical FundBrewster & West, 1852 Vols. include speeches by Dion Boucicault, John B. Buckstone, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, Charles Kean, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Charles J. Mathews, R. Monckton Milnes, Tom Taylor, W.M. Thackeray, and others. |
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Pàgina 5
... obtaining an efficient substitute a matter both of delicacy and difficulty , but from which they were generously relieved by you . That you may long continue to be the friend and patron of all institutions , having for their object the ...
... obtaining an efficient substitute a matter both of delicacy and difficulty , but from which they were generously relieved by you . That you may long continue to be the friend and patron of all institutions , having for their object the ...
Pàgina 9
... obtain increased support , in order to carry out fully the praiseworthy intentions of its founders . The continued support of the Public is therefore to be desired , and it is hoped that the administration of the affairs is such as to ...
... obtain increased support , in order to carry out fully the praiseworthy intentions of its founders . The continued support of the Public is therefore to be desired , and it is hoped that the administration of the affairs is such as to ...
Pàgina 19
... obtain something nice , every boy and girl in the country should come forward and have a taste , provided they asked in a proper manner.— ( Cheers . ) On my first appearance in the world , I was looked upon as rather a sickly child . Mr ...
... obtain something nice , every boy and girl in the country should come forward and have a taste , provided they asked in a proper manner.— ( Cheers . ) On my first appearance in the world , I was looked upon as rather a sickly child . Mr ...
Pàgina 20
... ac- knowledge that I have every prospect of success in life— added to which , my friends have obtained me a Royal Charter , that will enable me to place my savings out to much more advantage than I have hitherto done — as 20.
... ac- knowledge that I have every prospect of success in life— added to which , my friends have obtained me a Royal Charter , that will enable me to place my savings out to much more advantage than I have hitherto done — as 20.
Pàgina 27
... obtained by touching the hearts of the whole people of England . That had Mr. Dickens done . No man ever possessed such a mastery over the hearts of all — the rich and the poor - the inha- bitant of the cottage or the palace - as that ...
... obtained by touching the hearts of the whole people of England . That had Mr. Dickens done . No man ever possessed such a mastery over the hearts of all — the rich and the poor - the inha- bitant of the cottage or the palace - as that ...
Frases i termes més freqüents
acknowledge actor allude amateurs assistance assure BART BENJAMIN BOND CABBELL BENJAMIN LUMLEY Benjamin Webster Captain Chappell Chair Chairman Charles Dickens Charles Kean Charles Manby Charles Mears Cheers and laughter claim clude compliment paid CULLENFORD Donations Douglas Jerrold DOWGATE Drama DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE duty EARL FITZHARDINGE EDWARD BULWER LYTTON endeavour esteemed friend given GRACE THE DUKE GRACIOUS MAJESTY HAND COURT HORATIO GROSVENOR DAY Institution John Brady John Forster John Marston K.G. THE RIGHT KEZIA BREWSTER legacy liberal LONDON TAVERN loud cheers Macready Majesty the Queen Mark Lemon Masaniello old and esteemed position present PRINTED BY KEZIA profession.-(Cheers propose the health Ransford ROBERT BELL ROBERT FEAST Royal s. d. Annual SAMUEL PHELPS Seventh Anniversary Festival SIR EDWARD BULWER Sir Edward Lytton SIR THOMAS NOON Society sympathy T. P. Cooke thanks Theatrical Fund THOMAS NOON TALFOURD tion trical Fund Trustees W. R. SAMS West Betty WILLIAM FARREN
Passatges populars
Pàgina 23 - If to do were as easy as to know what were^ good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Pàgina 25 - to encourage life assurance and other provident habits among authors and artists; to render such assistance to both as shall never compromise their independence ; and to found a new institution where honourable rest from arduous labour shall still be associated with the discharge of congenial duties.
Pàgina 12 - PRINCE ALBERT, ALBERT PRINCE of WALES, and the rest of the ROYAL FAMILY.
Pàgina 1 - HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE, KG THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF DERBY, KG THE RIGHT HON.
Pàgina 25 - To encourage Life Assurance and other Provident Habits among Authors and Artists ; to render such assistance to both as shall never compromise their independence : and to found a new Institution where honorable rest from arduous labors shall be associated with the discharge of congenial duties : Will have the honor of presenting the petite Comedy in two acts of "USED UP.
Pàgina 33 - ... posts of honour, and wished he were situated among some of his friends in a more private station at the side of the room) (laughter), he met with nothing but beaming faces, encouraging and gentle looks. — (Cheers.) On the part of his brother Trustees, and on his own behalf, he begged to acknowledge the toast with many thanks; and he begged to assure those present that they need not be in the least afraid, that evening, of troubling either the Treasurer or the Trustees by swelling their contributions...
Pàgina 32 - ... subscribers consisted of the gentler sex. — (Cheers.) Nor were they wanting there, to shed on the assembly a grace which nothing else could give to it; for whether he looked before or behind him (and here he might be allowed to say that he almost regretted to occupy one of the posts of honour, and wished he were situated among some of his friends in a more private station at the side of the room) (laughter), he met with nothing but beaming faces, encouraging and gentle looks. — (Cheers.)...
Pàgina 32 - Buckstone, however, he did not wish to indulge in any unkind expressions towards the other theatrical funds, as some old and esteemed friends of his were connected with them, and as he would wish to make them also the friends of this Institution. — (Cheers.) What he would suggest afar off, was, that these funds should make some change in their constitution adapted to...
Pàgina 30 - Trustees, that he found it very dificult to say anything relative to it which he had not said before, or which they did not all know as well as himself. Independently of the fact that their fund had been established seven years, and that their position was steadily improving every time they met together, the eloquence of their Chairman in proposing the toast of the evening, and their...
Pàgina 30 - ... condition until next year. If, for instance, he could only have complained that the Institution was expensively managed, that there was nobody connected with the management who had any sympathy with the unfortunate members of the Dramatic profession ; that none of them had had any experience of the habits or struggles of...