Anecdotes of Actors: With Other Desultory Recollections, Etc. Etc. Etc. By Mrs. Mathews ...T.C. Newby, 1844 - 430 páginas |
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... KEMBLE MUNDEN SOWERBY DIGNUM COOKE IN LONDON 1 7 18 25 36 43 • 47 · 57 61 66 83 COOKE IN AMERICA 93 • COOKE IN SCOTLAND 96 COOKE IN SHYLOCK 100 SUETT AND HIS SON THEOPHILUS 104 SUETT'S FUNERAL 109 KNIGHT AND MATHEWS 112 KNIGHT ...
... KEMBLE MUNDEN SOWERBY DIGNUM COOKE IN LONDON 1 7 18 25 36 43 • 47 · 57 61 66 83 COOKE IN AMERICA 93 • COOKE IN SCOTLAND 96 COOKE IN SHYLOCK 100 SUETT AND HIS SON THEOPHILUS 104 SUETT'S FUNERAL 109 KNIGHT AND MATHEWS 112 KNIGHT ...
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... KEMBLE PAGE 128 130 133 CHERRY 137 MATHEWS AND SPRING 139 MEREDETH 145 JONES 146 INCLEDON AND HIS MADEIRA 153 MATHEWS AND YATES 160 MATHEWS AT BRIGHTON 166 MASTER BETTY 167 MATHEWS AND DENMAN 176 MATHEWS'S GALLERY - GRIEVANCES 183 ...
... KEMBLE PAGE 128 130 133 CHERRY 137 MATHEWS AND SPRING 139 MEREDETH 145 JONES 146 INCLEDON AND HIS MADEIRA 153 MATHEWS AND YATES 160 MATHEWS AT BRIGHTON 166 MASTER BETTY 167 MATHEWS AND DENMAN 176 MATHEWS'S GALLERY - GRIEVANCES 183 ...
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... KEMBLE MR . WILBERFORCE AND THE SPEAKER THEODORE HOOK'S HOAXES BLISSETT , THE BATH COMEDIAN ANACREON MOORE , AND MR . O'NEIL PITT MARTIN OF GALWAY 241 242 244 • 246 257 261 264 257 MATHEWS AT FULHAM 270 MANAGER MASTERMAN 272 THEODORE ...
... KEMBLE MR . WILBERFORCE AND THE SPEAKER THEODORE HOOK'S HOAXES BLISSETT , THE BATH COMEDIAN ANACREON MOORE , AND MR . O'NEIL PITT MARTIN OF GALWAY 241 242 244 • 246 257 261 264 257 MATHEWS AT FULHAM 270 MANAGER MASTERMAN 272 THEODORE ...
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... KEMBLE . " One gives another a cup of poison , but at the same time tells him it is a cordial , and so he drinks it off and dies . " - SoUTH . MR . CHARLES HOLLAND was always a very anxious actor , and when ... KEMBLE . 47 HOLLAND AND KEMBLE.
... KEMBLE . " One gives another a cup of poison , but at the same time tells him it is a cordial , and so he drinks it off and dies . " - SoUTH . MR . CHARLES HOLLAND was always a very anxious actor , and when ... KEMBLE . 47 HOLLAND AND KEMBLE.
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... you sent to our bar for a glass of brandy - and- water . " 46 " I know I did , " exclaimed the actor , still more im- patient with the person , who thus " played the tor- E turer by small and small , ' " " of HOLLAND AND KEMBLE . 49.
... you sent to our bar for a glass of brandy - and- water . " 46 " I know I did , " exclaimed the actor , still more im- patient with the person , who thus " played the tor- E turer by small and small , ' " " of HOLLAND AND KEMBLE . 49.
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Página 425 - So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air.
Página 425 - For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful.
Página 83 - God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!
Página 274 - A mighty spirit is eclipsed — a power Hath passed from day to darkness — to whose hour Of light no likeness is bequeathed — no name, Focus at once of all the rays of fame ! The flash of wit, the bright intelligence, The beam of song, the blaze of eloquence, Set with their Sun — but still have left behind The enduring produce of immortal mind...
Página 99 - And concentrating into one vast heap all the malice of his offended feelings, he added, after a pause of intense meaning, " There is not a brick in your dirty town but what is cemented by the blood of a negro...
Página 98 - No, Sir!" replied his indignant guest, in grating tones of irony, as be held it up, "nor would it if it were H aqua fortis ! " adding with an authoritative voice, which seemed to be borrowed from Jove's thunder, and loud enough " to fright the isle from its propriety," " Fill the glass, Sir ! Am I not George Frederick Cooke ? ' born to command ten thousand slaves like thee!
Página 386 - So, by a calenture misled, The mariner with rapture sees, On the smooth ocean's azure bed, Enamell'd fields and verdant trees : With eager haste he longs to rove In that fantastic scene, and thinks It must be some enchanted grove; And in he leaps, and down he sinks.
Página 47 - ... mischief. The will , chooses, follows, and embraces things evil and destructive ; but it is because the understanding first tells it that they are good and wholesome, and fit to be chosen by it. One man gives another a cup of poison, a thing as terrible as death ; but at the same time he tells him that it is a cordial ; and so he drinks it off, and dies.
Página 289 - Fugglestones, and other imaginary personages. Now, I verily believe that, if I had read that story to you before it was published, you would have enjoyed it more than any body who has read it ; since to ridicule the bad part of a profession can be no satire upon the good ; and, as I have said somewhere before, Lawrence might as well be annoyed at the abuse of sign-painters, or Halford angry at a satire upon quacks, as you personally with any thing reflecting upon the lower part of the theatrical...
Página 197 - King," some fastidious persons in the pit made a demur, and an angry stir ensued ; the question of " Where's Carles ?" became the (dis)order of the time, and " Carles ! Carles !" was the popular demand — a demand which Mr. Elliston was not backward to answer in his own way, and coming promptly forward with his most profound bow, respectfully, though haughtily, enquired of the " Ladies and Gentleman" what was