Memoirs of His Own LifeFairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1998 - 248 páginas In addition to being one of the leading theatrical managers and performers in England during the last half of the eighteenth century, Tate Wilkinson was, perhaps, the greatest mimic who ever lived. He had the ability to precisely imitate a person's voice, even a woman's, and also to duplicate the individual's walk, gestures, and facial features. To be "taken off" in the eighteenth century, however, was considered a serious personal insult, and Wilkinson suffered ostracism and threats of violence for exhibiting the peculiarities of others before the public. |
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Página 89 - Tweaks me by the nose? gives me the lie i' the throat, As deep as to the lungs? Who does me this? Ha! Swounds, I should take it, for it cannot be But I am pigeon-liver'd, and lack gall To make oppression bitter, or ere this I should have fatted all the region kites With this slave's offal.
Página 43 - If I were a woman, I would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleased me, complexions that liked me, and breaths that I defied not...
Página 43 - The audience of course applauded till she was out of sight, and then sunk into awful looks of astonishment, both young and old, before and behind the curtain, to see one of the most handsome women of the age, a favourite principal actress, and who had for several seasons given high entertainment, struck so suddenly by the hand of death in such a situation of time and place, and in her prime of life, being then about forty-four.
Página 90 - Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell, Must, like a whore, unpack my heart with words, And fall a-cursing, like a very drab, A scullion!
Página 61 - I was in the wrong box. It was some time before he could speak ; he took a candle from off the table, and, showing me the room door — when at last his words found utterance — said he never was so insulted. What ! to be taken off by a buffoon upon his own stage ! And as to mimicry, what...
Página 16 - I was in company with Foote was at Fitzherbert's. Having no good opinion of the fellow, I was resolved not to be pleased, and it is very difficult to please a man against his will. I went on eating my dinner pretty sullenly, affecting not to mind him. But the dog was so very comical, that I was obliged to lay down my knife and fork, throw myself back upon my chair, and fairly laugh it out. No, Sir, he was irresistible.* He upon one occasion experienced, in an extraordinary degree, the efficacy of...
Página 10 - I'll have a double quantity; for I am told Foote means to take me off, as he calls it, and I am determined the fellow shall not do it with impunity.
Página 75 - Third in the dog days, before the hottest kitchen-fire for a sop in the pan, yet I know his mean soul so perfectly, that if, on his refusal, I, with a grave face, tell him I have his figure exactly made and dressed as a puppet in my closet, ready for public admiration, the fellow will not only consent to your acting, but what is more extraordinary, his abject fears will make him lend me money, if I should say I want it.
Página 50 - Egad, Foote! there is a young fellow engaged with me, who I really think is superior to either of us at mimicry. — I used to think myself well at it, but I actually give him the preference: He has tried to resemble me, but that will not do; though Mrs. Garrick says, she is sure he will be like me." — "Damn it!" says Foote, "I should like to hear him.