"Their Majesties' Servants.": Annals of the English Stage, from Betterton to Edmund Kean. Actors-Authors--Audiences, Том 2W. J. Widdleton, 1865 - 846 стор. |
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Annals of the English Stage, from Betterton to Edmund Kean. Actors-Authors--Audiences Dr. Doran (John). ANNALS OF THE ENGLISH STAGE , FROM THOMAS BETTERTON TO EDMUND KEAN . Actors _ Authors _ Andicuccs . By Dr . , D ORAN , F . S . A ...
Annals of the English Stage, from Betterton to Edmund Kean. Actors-Authors--Audiences Dr. Doran (John). ANNALS OF THE ENGLISH STAGE , FROM THOMAS BETTERTON TO EDMUND KEAN . Actors _ Authors _ Andicuccs . By Dr . , D ORAN , F . S . A ...
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... Stage Costume and Stage Tricks 302 XXIII . - Prologue , Epilogue ; Dedications , and Benefits 318 XXIV . Old Stagers Departing 337 XXV . - New Ideas ; New Theatres ; New Authors ; and the New Actors 358 XXVI . - Edmund Kean 377 XXVII ...
... Stage Costume and Stage Tricks 302 XXIII . - Prologue , Epilogue ; Dedications , and Benefits 318 XXIV . Old Stagers Departing 337 XXV . - New Ideas ; New Theatres ; New Authors ; and the New Actors 358 XXVI . - Edmund Kean 377 XXVII ...
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... stage , charming all eyes and hearts by her beauty , grace , and ability in a range of characters from Ophelia to Sir Harry Wildair . Rich at once engaged her , at a moderate salary , and , in 1740 , brought her out , at Covent Garden ...
... stage , charming all eyes and hearts by her beauty , grace , and ability in a range of characters from Ophelia to Sir Harry Wildair . Rich at once engaged her , at a moderate salary , and , in 1740 , brought her out , at Covent Garden ...
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Annals of the English Stage, from Betterton to Edmund Kean. Actors-Authors--Audiences Dr. Doran (John). in her character . About six years before Mrs. Cibber left the stage she was often too indisposed to act ; and at short notice Mrs ...
Annals of the English Stage, from Betterton to Edmund Kean. Actors-Authors--Audiences Dr. Doran (John). in her character . About six years before Mrs. Cibber left the stage she was often too indisposed to act ; and at short notice Mrs ...
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... stage , and who had audaciously imitated the worst parts of Margaret's voice . Almost the only unkind act that can be laid to Mrs. Woffington's charge , was her consequent attempt to induce ... stage - door , 12 DORAN'S ANNALS OF THE STAGE .
... stage , and who had audaciously imitated the worst parts of Margaret's voice . Almost the only unkind act that can be laid to Mrs. Woffington's charge , was her consequent attempt to induce ... stage - door , 12 DORAN'S ANNALS OF THE STAGE .
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Сторінка 20 - I had rather not suppress, viz. that it was the best first play that any author in his memory had produced ; and that for a young fellow to show himself such an actor and such a writer in one day, was something extraordinary.
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Сторінка 80 - When Lothario gave Horatio the challenge Quin, instead of accepting it instantaneously, with the determined and unembarrassed brow of superior bravery, made a long pause, and dragged out the words, ' I'll meet thee there !' in such a manner as to make it appear absolutely ludicrous.
Сторінка 80 - Horatio — heavens, what a transition! — it seemed as if a whole century had been swept over in the transition of a single scene; old things were done away and a new order at once brought forward, bright and luminous, and clearly destined to dispel the barbarisms and bigotry of a...
Сторінка 135 - Sincerity ! Thou first of virtues, let no mortal leave Thy onward path! although the earth should gape, And from the gulf of hell destruction cry To take dissimulation's winding way.
Сторінка 270 - Death ! Who hast for thy domain this world immense. Churchyards and charnel-houses are thy haunts, And hospitals thy sumptuous palaces. And when thou wouldst be merry, thou dost choose The gaudy chamber of a dying king. O then thou dost ope wide thy hideous jaws, And with rude laughter and fantastic tricks Thou clapp'st thy rattling fingers to thy sides.
Сторінка 76 - Garrick reckoned a tolerable author, though he has proved how little sense is necessary to form a great actor! His Cymon, his prologues and epilogues, and forty such pieces of trash, are below mediocrity, and yet delight the mob in the boxes, as well as in the footman's gallery. I do not mention the things written in his praise, because he writes most of them himself.
Сторінка 357 - your fame shall last during the empire of vice and misery, in the extension of which you have acted so great a part ! " We make no apology for our sentiments, unfashionable as they are. Feeling the importance of the condition of man as a moral agent, accountable not merely for the direct...