The Exhibition Speaker: Containing Farces, Dialogues, and Tableaux : with Exercises for Declamation in Prose and Verse, Also a Treatise on Oratory and Elocution, Hints on Dramatic Characters, Costumes, Position on the Stage, Making Up, Etc., Etc. : with IllustrationsSheldon, Blakeman & Company, 1856 - 268 páginas |
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... happy rencounter ! ( Aloud . ) I'm really grieved that my duty com- pels me to intrude upon you , and on a wedding - day , too ! perhaps at the very moment you were going to sit down to dinner . Dor . It's distressing ! but tell me , Mr ...
... happy rencounter ! ( Aloud . ) I'm really grieved that my duty com- pels me to intrude upon you , and on a wedding - day , too ! perhaps at the very moment you were going to sit down to dinner . Dor . It's distressing ! but tell me , Mr ...
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... happy disposition , you are contented with every thing . Dalton . That is what I call true philosophy . Enter SPONGE , R. Sponge . I can't find a single creature ; it's becoming desperate . Eh , what do I see ? These are my men ...
... happy disposition , you are contented with every thing . Dalton . That is what I call true philosophy . Enter SPONGE , R. Sponge . I can't find a single creature ; it's becoming desperate . Eh , what do I see ? These are my men ...
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... happy to dine with you any day , after Friday . I'm not the rich man , upon my honor ; but you ought to have known that by my appetite . Gam . Sir , I have to ask you a thousand pardons . It's true , I was to arrest Mr. Dalton ; but ...
... happy to dine with you any day , after Friday . I'm not the rich man , upon my honor ; but you ought to have known that by my appetite . Gam . Sir , I have to ask you a thousand pardons . It's true , I was to arrest Mr. Dalton ; but ...
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... happy enough to meet with an invitation for to - day , I hope I shall be more fortunate when I next start " A Race for a Dinner . " Disposition of characters at fall of curtain : R. C. SPONGE . L. HOB AND NOB . A ROMANCE OF REAL LIFE ...
... happy enough to meet with an invitation for to - day , I hope I shall be more fortunate when I next start " A Race for a Dinner . " Disposition of characters at fall of curtain : R. C. SPONGE . L. HOB AND NOB . A ROMANCE OF REAL LIFE ...
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... happy bachelor ? Nob . Why , not precisely . Hob . Oh ! a widower ? Nob . No , not absolutely ! Hob . You'll excuse me , sir , but , at present , I don't exactly understand how you can help being one of the three . Nob . Not help it ...
... happy bachelor ? Nob . Why , not precisely . Hob . Oh ! a widower ? Nob . No , not absolutely ! Hob . You'll excuse me , sir , but , at present , I don't exactly understand how you can help being one of the three . Nob . Not help it ...
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Página 136 - ... 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 136 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Página 216 - Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave. A king sate on the rocky brow Which looks o'er sea-born Salamis ; And ships, by thousands, lay below, And men in nations ; — all were his ! He counted them at break of day — And when the sun set where were they ? And where are they?
Página 135 - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus ; but use all gently ; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Página 133 - May sweep to my revenge. Ghost. I find thee apt ; And duller shouldst thou be than the fat weed That roots itself in ease on Lethe wharf, Wouldst thou not stir in this.
Página 166 - t. It breaks my chain. I held some slack allegiance till this hour; But now my sword's my own. Smile on, my lords ! I scorn to count what feelings, withered hopes. Strong provocations, bitter, burning wrongs, I have within my heart's hot cells shut up, To leave you in your lazy dignities.
Página 217 - You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet, Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone? Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the manlier one?
Página 216 - Islands of the Blest'. The mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looks on the sea. And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free, For standing on the Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave.
Página 217 - Must we but blush? Our fathers bled. Earth ! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead ! Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae ! What, silent still?
Página 191 - It is to that Union we owe our safety at home and our consideration and dignity abroad. It is to that Union that we are chiefly indebted for whatever makes us most proud of our country. That Union we reached only by the discipline of our virtues in the severe school of adversity. It had its origin in the necessities of disordered finance, prostrate commerce, and ruined credit.