Dramatists of the Restoration: John CrowneWilliam Hugh Logan W. Patterson, 1874 |
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Сторінка 69 - So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss, Which sucks two souls, and vapours both away ; Turn, thou ghost, that way, and let me turn this, And let ourselves benight our happiest day. We ask none leave to love ; nor will we owe Any so cheap a death as saying,
Сторінка 343 - He was a graceful man, and had lived long in the court, where he had some adventures that became very public. He was a man of a sweet and caressing temper, had no malice in his heart, but too great a love of pleasure.
Сторінка 352 - ... merit in a friend or enemy. I never sought more than the bare conveniencies of life. But want of health makes life itself an inconvenience. I have for some few years been disorder'd with a distemper, which seated itself in my head, threatened...
Сторінка 225 - Batto in the preceding piece, was a native of Dublin, where he unsuccessfully made his first theatrical attempt, but after some years of strolling he got to London, and acted both at Drury Lane and Lincoln's Inn Fields. He became popular, especially in the characters of Fondlewife in the "Old Bachelor," and Ben in "Love for Love," the latter having been written expressly to suit his style of acting.
Сторінка 226 - Livery with a badge representing Liberty, to be rowed for by six Watermen that are out of their time within the year past. They are to row from London Bridge to Chelsea. It will be continued annually on the same day for ever.
Сторінка 74 - The hour of marriage ends the female reign! And we give all we have to buy a chain; Hire men to be our lords, who were our slaves; And bribe our lovers to be perjured knaves.
Сторінка 10 - Committee," and in the boobily heaviness of Lolpoop in the " Squire of Alsatia," he seemed the immovable log he stood for : a countenance of wood could not be more fixed than his when the blockhead of a character required it. His face was full and long ; from his crown to the end of his nose was the shorter half of it; so that the disproportion of his lower features, when soberly composed, with an unwandering eye hanging over them, threw him into the most lumpish, moping mortal that ever made beholders...
Сторінка 234 - Scripture tells us, will make a wise man mad ; if so, 'tis not probable that it will make a fool wise. How many kings and queens have I had the honour to divertise ! and how fruitless has been all my labours ! a maker of legs, nay a maker of fires at Court has made himself a better fortune than men much my superiors in poetry could do, by all the noble fire in their writings.
Сторінка 6 - Friar," it is inferior in every respect as a comedy. It is dull — and some of the hints are taken from the latter ; for instance, Father Finical becomes a bishop, so does Dr Wolff, both priests are of an amorous complexion ; Finical courts the maid, Wolff the mistress, both are detected, and pretty much in the same manner. The Biographia Dramatica says, " The Coquet Maria is truly original, and most elegantly spirited ; " is not this precisely the character of Laura the eldest daughter of Lord...
Сторінка 230 - demanded the Duke. " You must leap down also, unless you consent to satisfy my wants." The Duke instantly gave him an order to receive the amount of his claim, and the builder, according to the concerted plan, gave a signal to one of his men below, who came up with the key, unlocked the trap-door, and set the Duke of Buckingham at liberty. It was generally supposed the Duke complied with the request of the builder, not from any sense of fear, but because he admired the ingenious mode in which he...