Memoirs of Charles Macklin, Comedian: With the Dramatic Characters, Manners, Anecdotes, &c. of the Age in which He Lived : Forming an History of the Stage During Almost the Whole of the Last Century, and a Chronological List of All the Parts Played by HimJ. Asperne, 1804 - 444 páginas |
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... situation of his family : but then it is to be asked , How came the precise period of his birth to be afterwards fixed upon , and detailed as a fact through the re- mainder of his life ? This has been partly an- swered in Memoirs of him ...
... situation of his family : but then it is to be asked , How came the precise period of his birth to be afterwards fixed upon , and detailed as a fact through the re- mainder of his life ? This has been partly an- swered in Memoirs of him ...
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... situation , and in particular a Counsellor O'Calla- ghan , a gentleman of great respectability , who was called to the bar in 1713 ; which , allowing three years for his keeping his commons in the Temple here , fixes his quitting ...
... situation , and in particular a Counsellor O'Calla- ghan , a gentleman of great respectability , who was called to the bar in 1713 ; which , allowing three years for his keeping his commons in the Temple here , fixes his quitting ...
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... situation ; and for some minutes a dead silence ensued . at last broke ground , and drank Macklin's health . Macklin returned it ; and then there was another pause ; after which Quin , as if recovering from a reverie , thus addressed ...
... situation ; and for some minutes a dead silence ensued . at last broke ground , and drank Macklin's health . Macklin returned it ; and then there was another pause ; after which Quin , as if recovering from a reverie , thus addressed ...
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... situation , calling one another by their Christian names , ( as was the fashion of those times , ) in the most familiar manner . " The women then , Sir , " said the veteran , " talked louder , laughed louder , and shewed all their ...
... situation , calling one another by their Christian names , ( as was the fashion of those times , ) in the most familiar manner . " The women then , Sir , " said the veteran , " talked louder , laughed louder , and shewed all their ...
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... situation for superior courage , figure , & c . & c . But the best acknowledged Macheath since the days of Walker , was a man little known in the present day , of the name of Wilder . He had been origi- nally a singer at Vauxhall , and ...
... situation for superior courage , figure , & c . & c . But the best acknowledged Macheath since the days of Walker , was a man little known in the present day , of the name of Wilder . He had been origi- nally a singer at Vauxhall , and ...
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Memoirs of Charles Macklin, Comedian: With the Dramatic Characters, Manners ... William Cook Vista de fragmentos - 1972 |
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Página 54 - Twas but a kindred sound to move, For pity melts the mind to love. Softly sweet, in Lydian measures Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures. War...
Página 183 - A fixed figure for the time of scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at ! Yet could I bear that too ; well, very well : But there, where I have garner'd up my heart, Where either I must live, or bear no life...
Página 182 - My story being done, She gave me for my pains a world of sighs: She swore, in faith, 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange, 'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful...
Página 411 - The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.
Página 66 - Opera the gangs of robbers were evidently multiplied. Both these decisions are surely exaggerated. The play, like many others, was plainly written only to divert, without any moral purpose, and is therefore not likely to do good ; nor can it be conceived, without more speculation than life requires or admits, to he productive of much evil.
Página 154 - Pity it is, that the momentary beauties flowing from an harmonious elocution, cannot like those of poetry be their own record! That the animated graces of the player can live no longer than the instant breath and motion that presents them; or at best can but faintly glimmer through the memory, or imperfect attestation of a few surviving spectators.
Página 116 - For say what subject is more fit, Than to record the sparkling wit And bloom of lovely Peggy. The sun first rising in the morn, That paints the dew-bespangled thorn, Does not so much the day adorn As does my lovely Peggy.
Página 94 - I mustered up all the courage I could, and, recommending my cause to Providence, threw myself boldly on the stage, and was received by one of the loudest thunders of applause I ever before experienced. '"The opening scenes being rather tame and level, I could not expect much applause, but I found myself well listened to. I could hear distinctly in the pit the words "Very well— very well indeed! This man seems to know what he is about,
Página 343 - They have no remembrance of anything but what they learned and observed in their youth and middle age, and even that is very imperfect. And for the truth or particulars of any fact, it is safer to depend on common tradition than upon their best recollections. The least miserable among them appear to be those who turn to dotage, and entirely lose their memories ; these meet with more pity and assistance, because they want many bad qualities which abound in others.
Página 25 - Characters she chiefly excell'd in; but her natural good Sense and lively Turn of Conversation made her Way so easy to Ladies of the highest Rank, that it is a less Wonder, if on the Stage she sometimes was, what might have become the finest Woman in real Life to have supported.