The Wandering Patentee: Or, A History of the Yorkshire Theatres, from 1770 to the Present Time: Interspersed with Anecdotes Respecting Most of the Performers in the Three Kingdoms, from 1765 to 1795, Томи 1 – 2Scolar Press, 1795 - 578 стор. Discusses Yorkshire theatre in the late eighteenth century with personal anecdotes of famous actors. |
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... persons gain attention from being well dreffed , so I will put on my beft accoutrements , and begin my con- versation in as decent , ludicrous , tragical , comi- cal , and farcical a manner as I am able in my real changeable character ...
... persons gain attention from being well dreffed , so I will put on my beft accoutrements , and begin my con- versation in as decent , ludicrous , tragical , comi- cal , and farcical a manner as I am able in my real changeable character ...
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... person whatever , whom he wished well , or that he judged worthy his support ; and he has , I believe , often hurt himself to ferve others . He was fo anxious for the welfare of Powell , that the following admirable lines occurred at ...
... person whatever , whom he wished well , or that he judged worthy his support ; and he has , I believe , often hurt himself to ferve others . He was fo anxious for the welfare of Powell , that the following admirable lines occurred at ...
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... to com- mence actor . He had a good person , an excel lent memory , and would have been better but for his provincial dialect . He was of great fen- vice as a finger as well as performer . His 52 THE WANDERING PATENTEE .
... to com- mence actor . He had a good person , an excel lent memory , and would have been better but for his provincial dialect . He was of great fen- vice as a finger as well as performer . His 52 THE WANDERING PATENTEE .
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... The husband , perhaps , is as fashion- able , in regard to this pure attachment , as any person in a higher rank ; and the lady , it is pof- fible , fometimes may have as little anxiety about her THE WANDERING PATentee . 57.
... The husband , perhaps , is as fashion- able , in regard to this pure attachment , as any person in a higher rank ; and the lady , it is pof- fible , fometimes may have as little anxiety about her THE WANDERING PATentee . 57.
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... person I have seen ( Mrs. Pope excepted ) . Mrs. Ibbot played various parts with infinite ability , and would have been more successful on the Dublin and London stages , had her features been alluring . It is certain that the ...
... person I have seen ( Mrs. Pope excepted ) . Mrs. Ibbot played various parts with infinite ability , and would have been more successful on the Dublin and London stages , had her features been alluring . It is certain that the ...
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The Wandering Patentee: Or, A History of the Yorkshire ..., Томи 1 – 2 Tate Wilkinson Перегляд фрагмента - 1973 |
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Сторінка 16 - And thus still doing, thus he pass'd along. Duch. Alas ! poor Richard ! where rides he the while ? York. As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious : Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes Did scowl on Richard ; no man cried, God save him...
Сторінка 36 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot...
Сторінка 110 - T' endure the frosts of danger, nay, of death, To be thought worthy the triumphal wreath By glorious undertakings, may deserve Reward, or favour from the commonwealth; Actors may put in for as large a share As all the sects of the philosophers: They with cold precepts...
Сторінка 239 - I know no more why I came, than you do why you called me. But here I am, and if you don't mean to provide for me, I desire you would leave me as you found me. SIR SAMP.
Сторінка 111 - ... tedious to him ; if there be, Among the auditors, one whose conscience tells him He is of the same mould, — WE CANNOT HELP IT. Or, bringing on the stage a loose...
Сторінка 109 - The whole world being one, This place is not exempted : and I am So confident in the justice of our cause, That I could wish Caesar, in whose great name All kings are comprehended, sat as judge, To hear our plea, and then determine of us. If to express a man sold to his lusts, Wasting the treasure of his time and fortunes In wanton dalliance, and to what sad end A wretch...
Сторінка 3 - The Wandering Patentee; or, a History of the Yorkshire Theatres from 1770 to the present time; interspersed with Anecdotes respecting most of the performers in the three Kingdoms from 1765 to 1795.
Сторінка 110 - Carthage : if done to the life, As if they saw their dangers, and their glories, And did partake with them in their rewards, All that have any spark of Roman in them, The slothful arts laid by, contend to be Like those they see presented.
Сторінка 239 - Did not I beget you? And might not I have chosen whether I would have begot you or no? 'Oons, who are you? Whence came you? What brought you into the world? How came you here, sir?
Сторінка 47 - He has a singular talent of exhibiting character.' JOHNSON. 'Sir, it is not a talent; it is a vice; it is what others abstain from. It is not comedy, which exhibits the character of a species, as that of a miser gathered from many misers: it is farce, which exhibits individuals.