Dramatic Table Talk: Or, Scenes, Situations, & Adventures, Serious & Comic, in Theatrical History & Biography, Volumen1Richard Ryan J. Knight & H. Lacey, 1825 |
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... 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 , who never weep . " This illustrious suffrage procured his ad ...
... 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 , who never weep . " This illustrious suffrage procured his ad ...
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... success crowned my efforts , and , without fearing that I may be accused of presumption , I may say , that my ex- ample has had a great influence on all the Thea- tres in Europe . Lekain could not have sur- mounted so many difficulties ...
... success crowned my efforts , and , without fearing that I may be accused of presumption , I may say , that my ex- ample has had a great influence on all the Thea- tres in Europe . Lekain could not have sur- mounted so many difficulties ...
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... success in this scheme was so much superior to her expec- tations , that she was induced to try her talents as an actress . With this view , she brought from the North of England a party of the lowest of comedians , and having fitted up ...
... success in this scheme was so much superior to her expec- tations , that she was induced to try her talents as an actress . With this view , she brought from the North of England a party of the lowest of comedians , and having fitted up ...
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... success , in Edinburgh ; however , we find that in 1726 , one Tony Aston spoke a pro- logue , written by Allan Ramsay , in which he compares himself to Columbus , in the danger of the enterprize , in attempting to open a theatre in ...
... success , in Edinburgh ; however , we find that in 1726 , one Tony Aston spoke a pro- logue , written by Allan Ramsay , in which he compares himself to Columbus , in the danger of the enterprize , in attempting to open a theatre in ...
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... success . Uni- versal applause , crowded houses and wealth , all danced before my imagination . Intoxicated with joy , I went home to my parents . Never shall the agony of their looks be effaced from my me- mory ; my mother's grief was ...
... success . Uni- versal applause , crowded houses and wealth , all danced before my imagination . Intoxicated with joy , I went home to my parents . Never shall the agony of their looks be effaced from my me- mory ; my mother's grief was ...
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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.