Dramatic Table Talk: Or, Scenes, Situations, & Adventures, Serious & Comic, in Theatrical History & Biography, Volumen1Richard Ryan J. Knight & H. Lacey, 1825 |
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... LEKAIN , and the art he carried to such perfection . * Lekain had no master . Every actor ought to be his own tutor : if he has not in himself the ne- cessary faculties for expressing the passions , and painting characters , all the ...
... LEKAIN , and the art he carried to such perfection . * Lekain had no master . Every actor ought to be his own tutor : if he has not in himself the ne- cessary faculties for expressing the passions , and painting characters , all the ...
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... Lekain , from the commencement of his career , met with great success ; his debuts lasted seven- teen months . One day , when he had performed at Court , before Louis XV . , the king said , after the play , " This man has made cry , I ...
... Lekain , from the commencement of his career , met with great success ; his debuts lasted seven- teen months . One day , when he had performed at Court , before Louis XV . , the king said , after the play , " This man has made cry , I ...
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... Lekain , subjected , in spite of himself , to the in- fluence of example , felt the necessity of breaking his shackles , and abandoning the monotonous chaunt , and the pedantic rules , that bound his ardent soul in fetters ; and ...
... Lekain , subjected , in spite of himself , to the in- fluence of example , felt the necessity of breaking his shackles , and abandoning the monotonous chaunt , and the pedantic rules , that bound his ardent soul in fetters ; and ...
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... Lekain , a plain plebeian , a workman in a goldsmith's shop , had not , it is true , been bred in the lap of queens , as Baron pretended actors ought to be ; but nature , a still more noble instructress , had undertaken the charge of ...
... Lekain , a plain plebeian , a workman in a goldsmith's shop , had not , it is true , been bred in the lap of queens , as Baron pretended actors ought to be ; but nature , a still more noble instructress , had undertaken the charge of ...
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... Lekain and the rest ; they admired her , but had not the courage to follow her steps . These rules of convention were the tyrants of even the authors themselves , who bent beneath their baleful influence ; even the divine Racine himself ...
... Lekain and the rest ; they admired her , but had not the courage to follow her steps . These rules of convention were the tyrants of even the authors themselves , who bent beneath their baleful influence ; even the divine Racine himself ...
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Página xxii - ... twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve; the censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
Página xxii - ... accent of christians, nor the gait of christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted, and bellowed, that I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Página 246 - This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride At length broke under me; and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Página xxi - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue ; but if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.
Página xxii - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action ; with this special observance, that you o'er-step not the modesty of nature : for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first, and now, was, and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time, his form and pressure.
Página 102 - Weep with me, all you that read This little story : And know, for whom a tear you shed Death's self is sorry. 'Twas a child that so did thrive In grace and feature, As heaven and nature seemed to strive Which owned the creature.
Página 102 - Parcae thought him one, He played so truly. So by error to his fate They all consented; But viewing him since (alas, too late) They have repented. And have sought (to give new birth) In baths to steep him; But, being so much too good for earth, Heaven vows to keep him.
Página 187 - Be absolute for death; either death, or life, Shall thereby be the sweeter. Reason thus with life,— If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep...
Página 25 - He began on it ; and" when first he mentioned it to Swift, the doctor did not much like the project. As he carried it on, he showed what he wrote to both of us, and we now and then gave a correction, or a word or two of advice ; but it was wholly of his own writing.
Página xxi - O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who, for the most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb-shows and noise: I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant; it out-herods Herod: pray you, avoid it.