The Romance of the English Stage, Том 1R. Bentley & son, 1874 - 334 стор. |
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Сторінка 220 - 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...
Сторінка 188 - For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day ; But he who is in battle slain Can never rise and fight again.
Сторінка 328 - I reached my own quiet fireside, on retiring from the scene of reiterated shouts and plaudits. I was half dead; and my joy and thankfulness were of too solemn and overpowering a nature to admit of words, or even tears. My father, my husband, and myself, sat down to a frugal neat supper, in a silence uninterrupted, except by exclamations of gladness from Mr Siddons. My father enjoyed his refreshments ; but occasionally stopped short, and, laying down his knife and fork, lifting up his venerable face,...
Сторінка 325 - For a whole fortnight before this (to me) memorable day I suffered from nervous agitation more than can be imagined. No wonder ! for my own fate and that of my little family, hung upon it. I had quitted Bath, where all my efforts had been successful, and I feared lest a second failure in London might influence the public mind greatly to my prejudice in the event of my return from Drury Lane disgraced as I formerly had been. In due time I was summoned to the rehearsal of Isabella.
Сторінка 327 - On this eventful day my father arrived to comfort me, and to be a witness of my trial. He accompanied me to my dressing-room at the theatre. There he left me; and I, in one of what I call my desperate tranquillities, which usually impress me under terrific circumstances, there completed my dress, to the astonishment of my attendants, without uttering one word, though often sighing most profoundly.
Сторінка 174 - The two Miss Gunnings," and a late extravagant dinner at White's, are twenty times more the subject of conversation than the two brothers and Lord Granville. These are two Irish girls, of no fortune, who are declared the handsomest women alive. I think their being two so handsome and both such perfect figures is their chief excellence, for singly I have seen much handsomer women than either ; however, they can't walk in the park, or go to Vauxhall, but such mobs follow them that they are generally...
Сторінка 49 - Manager Penchard and his company quitting a town. " First came Mr. Singer and Mrs. Penchard, arm-in-arm ; then old Joe, the stage keeper, leading a neddy, which supported two panniers containing the scenery and wardrobe, and above them, with a leg resting on each, Mr. Penchard himself, dressed in his Ranger suit of
Сторінка 220 - The audience of course applauded till she was out of sight, and then sank 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.
Сторінка 248 - I was ; his manner, his voice, his oddities, I so exactly hit that the pleasure, the glee it gave, may easily be conceived, to see and hear the mimic mimicked ; and it really gave me a complete victory over Mr. Foote, for the suddenness of the action tripped up his audacity so much that he, with all his effrontery, sat foolish, wishing to appear equally pleased with the audience, but knew not how to play that difficult part. He was unprepared ; the surprise and satisfaction was such that, without...
Сторінка 327 - The awful consciousness that one is the sole object of attention to that immense space, lined as it were with human intellect from top to bottom, and all around, may perhaps be imagined, but can never be described, and by me can never be forgotten.