Dramatic Miscellanies: Consisting of Critical Observations on Several Plays of Shakspeare, with a Review of His Principal Characters, and Those of Various Eminent Writers, as Represented by Mr. Garrick and Other Celebrated Comedians with Anecdotes of Dramatic Poets, Actors, &c, 第 1 巻S. Price, 1784 |
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... Hubert and the king , who tempts him to murder Ar- thur , compared to one in Mafinger's Duke of Milan . - Colley Cibber's prefumption.- Aftonishing power of found , from Dante's Inferno . - Mrs . Cibber's great excellence in Lady ...
... Hubert and the king , who tempts him to murder Ar- thur , compared to one in Mafinger's Duke of Milan . - Colley Cibber's prefumption.- Aftonishing power of found , from Dante's Inferno . - Mrs . Cibber's great excellence in Lady ...
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... Hubert , where the king folicits Hubert , more by looks and action than by words , to murder his nephew Arthur , is , in the opinion of e- very man of taste , fuperior to all praise . very 50 DRAMATIC MISCELLANIES . In that play there ...
... Hubert , where the king folicits Hubert , more by looks and action than by words , to murder his nephew Arthur , is , in the opinion of e- very man of taste , fuperior to all praise . very 50 DRAMATIC MISCELLANIES . In that play there ...
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... Hubert , and boldly appeals to his judgement for the decifion . The fcene in Maffinger is well concei- ved and highly finished ; but the lightning itself is not brighter or quicker in its flash , nor more aftonishing in its effects ...
... Hubert , and boldly appeals to his judgement for the decifion . The fcene in Maffinger is well concei- ved and highly finished ; but the lightning itself is not brighter or quicker in its flash , nor more aftonishing in its effects ...
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... Hubert to draw the curtain , that he may unfold his meaning to him in the dark ; and Hubert exacts an exculpa- tory warrant from him to put Arthur to death . In this latter management he has borrowed from Maffinger . Francifco de- mands ...
... Hubert to draw the curtain , that he may unfold his meaning to him in the dark ; and Hubert exacts an exculpa- tory warrant from him to put Arthur to death . In this latter management he has borrowed from Maffinger . Francifco de- mands ...
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... to make amends for their inattention to the most beautiful woman that ever adorned a theatre , CHAPTER CHAPTER V. Affecting interview of Hubert and Arthur.- Who first KING JOHN . 57 would give Mrs. Woffington leave to act ...
... to make amends for their inattention to the most beautiful woman that ever adorned a theatre , CHAPTER CHAPTER V. Affecting interview of Hubert and Arthur.- Who first KING JOHN . 57 would give Mrs. Woffington leave to act ...
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52 ページ - To give me audience : — If the midnight bell Did, with his iron tongue and brazen mouth, Sound one unto the drowsy race of night...
233 ページ - Throw down your cane, sir!' were repeatedly echoed by the combatants. Barry, who was afraid lest the audience should hear full as much of the quarrel as of the play, rushed into the green-room, and put an end to the battle. The printsellers laid hold of this dispute, and published a print called
433 ページ - We may find it difficult to reconcile our fancy to her as a wife or a mistress ; but her qualities as a sovereign, though with some considerable exceptions, are the object of undisputed applause and approbation.
233 ページ - And now, the ladies, not bejng able to restrain themselves within the bounds of cool conversation, a most terrible fray ensued. I do not believe that they went so far as pulling of caps, but their altercation would not have disgraced the females of Billingsgate. While the two great actresses were thus entertaining each other in one part of the green-room, the admirer of Lady Percy, an old gentleman who afterwards bequeathed her a considerable fortune, and the brother of the comic lady, were more...
187 ページ - As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-grac'd 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...
232 ページ - This produced a ver.v cool, but cutting answer from the other; who reminded the former of her playing, very lately, to a much thinner audience, one of her favourite parts. And now the ladies not being able to restrain themselves within the bounds of cool conversation, a most terrible fray ensued. I do not believe that they went so far as pulling of caps, but their altercation would not have disgraced the females of Billingsgate. While the two great actresses were thus entertaining each other in one...
212 ページ - Shuter would endeavour to find him out and bring him with him. Shuter was directed to some court in the Minories where this extraordinary musician lived...
257 ページ - Put out the light, — and then put out thy light: If I quench thee, thou flaming minister, I can again thy former light restore, Should I repent me : — but once put out thy light , Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature, 1 know not where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume.
430 ページ - Let none think flattery, for they'll find 'em truth. This royal infant — .heaven still move about her! — Though in her cradle, yet now promises Upon this land a thousand thousand blessings, Which time shall bring to ripeness. She shall be — A pattern to all princes living with her, And all that shall succeed.