Dramatic Table Talk: Or, Scenes, Situations, & Adventures, Serious & Comic, in Theatrical History & Biography, Volumen2Richard Ryan J. Knight & H. Lacey, 1825 |
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... whole con- stituting a figure nearly seven feet high . When Peggy was with her guardian , Mr. Mur- ray , no very tall man , she did not reach much high- er than his knee ; he was obliged to stoop even to lay his hand on her head ; to ...
... whole con- stituting a figure nearly seven feet high . When Peggy was with her guardian , Mr. Mur- ray , no very tall man , she did not reach much high- er than his knee ; he was obliged to stoop even to lay his hand on her head ; to ...
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... whole effect was so out of cha- racter , so very ludicrous , that the audience soon decided against Miss Mudie . At first , the audience did not hiss when she was on the stage , from delicacy ; but , in her absence , they hissed the ...
... whole effect was so out of cha- racter , so very ludicrous , that the audience soon decided against Miss Mudie . At first , the audience did not hiss when she was on the stage , from delicacy ; but , in her absence , they hissed the ...
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... whole com- pany , to treat them in the same way . A young actor , named Bejart , who was dressed to play an old character , presented himself to the rioters ; and , as no argument is so powerful to a French- man as a bon - mot , he ...
... whole com- pany , to treat them in the same way . A young actor , named Bejart , who was dressed to play an old character , presented himself to the rioters ; and , as no argument is so powerful to a French- man as a bon - mot , he ...
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... of festi- vity , having , almost through the whole of her life , entertained from one to two thousand persons of both sexes , six nights out of the seven in the week . She was an excellent poetess , could be 22 THEATRES Droll incident.
... of festi- vity , having , almost through the whole of her life , entertained from one to two thousand persons of both sexes , six nights out of the seven in the week . She was an excellent poetess , could be 22 THEATRES Droll incident.
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... whole house was drowned in tears , he turned his head round to me , and putting his tongue in his cheek , whispered-- " D ― n me , Tom , it'll do . " - So much for stage feeling . THE UNSUCCESSFUL CLUB . It was once proposed , by some ...
... whole house was drowned in tears , he turned his head round to me , and putting his tongue in his cheek , whispered-- " D ― n me , Tom , it'll do . " - So much for stage feeling . THE UNSUCCESSFUL CLUB . It was once proposed , by some ...
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Página 162 - The tragic paragons had grown — They were the children of her pride, The columns of her throne, And undivided favour ran From heart to heart in their applause. Save for the gallantry of man In lovelier woman's cause.
Página 15 - Was play'd betwixt the black house and the white: The white house won. Yet still the black doth brag. They had the power to put me in the bag. Use but your royal hand, 'twill set me free, 'Tis but removing of a man — that's ME.
Página 126 - On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object : can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France ? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt...
Página 31 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers ! hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear : believe me for mine honour, and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe : censure me in your wisdom, and awake your senses, that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.
Página 167 - Security] wherein was personated a King, or some great Prince, with his Courtiers of severall kinds, amongst which three Ladies were in speciall grace with him, and they keeping him in delights and pleasures, drew him from his graver Counsellors, hearing of Sermons...
Página 31 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear. Believe me for mine honour, and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe. Censure me in your wisdom, and awake your senses, that you may the better judge. 2. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say, that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.
Página 168 - ... and then discovered his face, that the spectators might see how they had transformed him going on with their singing. Whilst all this was acting, there came forth of another door at the farthest end of the stage two old men, the one in blue, with a sergeant-at-arms...
Página 168 - ... and admonitions, that in the end they got him to lie down in a cradle upon the stage, where these three ladies, joining in a sweet song, rocked him asleep...
Página 160 - His was the spell o'er hearts Which only acting lends, The youngest of the sister arts, Where all their beauty blends : For ill can Poetry express Full many a tone of thought sublime, And Painting, mute and motionless, Steals but a glance of Time. But by the mighty actor brought, Illusion's perfect triumphs come ; Verse ceases to be airy thought, And Sculpture to be dumb.
Página 45 - By this light, I wonder that any man is so mad, to come to see these rascally tits play here They do act like so many wrens or pismires not the fifth part of a good face amongst them all. And then their music ii abominable able to stretch a man's ears worse than ten pillories and their ditties most lamentable things, like the pitiful fellows that make them poets. By this vapour, an...