Memoirs of the Life of John Philip Kemble, Esq: Including a History of the Stage, from the Time of Garrick to the Present Period, Volum 1R.H. Small, 1825 - 607 pàgines |
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... doubt designed to oblige me highly , when he that day took me home with him , without a formal invitation . - Mr. Kemble , while yet a child , performed in his father's company . In all probability he represented the little prat- ing ...
... doubt designed to oblige me highly , when he that day took me home with him , without a formal invitation . - Mr. Kemble , while yet a child , performed in his father's company . In all probability he represented the little prat- ing ...
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... doubt at the time that this disaster was caused by too severe a sympa thy in the distresses of the scene . Such a circumstance en- veloped the tragedy in a sort of superstitious horror ; and for a long while the company could not ...
... doubt at the time that this disaster was caused by too severe a sympa thy in the distresses of the scene . Such a circumstance en- veloped the tragedy in a sort of superstitious horror ; and for a long while the company could not ...
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... doubt this extremely . I incline , from early recollections , to think , that , as the actors then occupied the whole attention , they had greater power over the spectator . If the scenery had de- cent propriety , it was sufficient ; if ...
... doubt this extremely . I incline , from early recollections , to think , that , as the actors then occupied the whole attention , they had greater power over the spectator . If the scenery had de- cent propriety , it was sufficient ; if ...
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... doubt it is materially owing to the University and to Trinity College , that the inhabitants of Edinburgh and Dublin are among the most enlightened admirers of the dra- ma . Upon the amazing success of Mrs. Siddons during her first ...
... doubt it is materially owing to the University and to Trinity College , that the inhabitants of Edinburgh and Dublin are among the most enlightened admirers of the dra- ma . Upon the amazing success of Mrs. Siddons during her first ...
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... doubt that what is called genteel comedy , among us , suffers greatly from the comparative undress of our times . What can you do , for instance , with such a comedy as the Careless Husband ? Its dialogue could never proceed from the ...
... doubt that what is called genteel comedy , among us , suffers greatly from the comparative undress of our times . What can you do , for instance , with such a comedy as the Careless Husband ? Its dialogue could never proceed from the ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 56 - I have of late (but wherefore, I know not) lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and, indee'd, it goes so heavily with my disposition, that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me, than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors.
Pàgina 368 - twere with a defeated joy, With one auspicious and one dropping eye, With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage, In equal scale weighing delight and dole...
Pàgina 63 - Angels and ministers of grace defend us! Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd, Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane, O, answer me!
Pàgina 449 - Dire was the tossing, deep the groans : Despair Tended the sick, busiest from couch to couch ; And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, but delay'd to strike, though oft invoked With vows, as their chief good, and final hope.
Pàgina 224 - For rising merit will buoy up at last. Might he return, and bless once more our eyes, New...
Pàgina 388 - They boast they come but to improve our state, enlarge our thoughts, and free us from the yoke of error ! Yes : they will give enlightened freedom to our minds, who are themselves the slaves of passion, avarice, and pride ! They offer us their protection : yes, such protection as vultures give to lambs— covering and devouring them! They call...
Pàgina 256 - AN old song made by an aged old pate, Of an old worshipful gentleman, who had a great estate, That kept a brave old house at a bountiful rate, And an old porter to relieve the poor at his gate ; Like an old courtier of the queen's, And the queen's old courtier.
Pàgina 36 - Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale; sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense or the affinity of their sound...
Pàgina 36 - ... an objection : sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense: sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a mimical look or gesture passeth for it.
Pàgina 185 - That must be utter'd to unfold the sage And serious doctrine of Virginity; And thou art worthy that thou shouldst not know More happiness than this thy present lot. Enjoy your dear Wit and gay Rhetoric 790 That hath so well been taught...