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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... voice ftrong and harmo- nious , his deportment manly , and his ac- tion not difpleafing ; his ear was fo un- faithful , that he was generally monoto- nous ; he wanted that judgement which alone knows how to give dignity to fenti- ment ...
... voice ftrong and harmo- nious , his deportment manly , and his ac- tion not difpleafing ; his ear was fo un- faithful , that he was generally monoto- nous ; he wanted that judgement which alone knows how to give dignity to fenti- ment ...
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... voice and manner , that the theatre echoed with loud laughter and thundering applaufe . Hale was shocked at the mortifying scene , and felt the folly and injuftice of approving that ridicule of others which he could not bear himself . B ...
... voice and manner , that the theatre echoed with loud laughter and thundering applaufe . Hale was shocked at the mortifying scene , and felt the folly and injuftice of approving that ridicule of others which he could not bear himself . B ...
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... skill , is inferior . When Mrs. Cibber threw herself on the ground in pronouncing -Here I and forrow fit : Here is my throne , let kings come bow to it . D 2 Her Her voice , look , and perfon , in every KING 35 JOHN .
... skill , is inferior . When Mrs. Cibber threw herself on the ground in pronouncing -Here I and forrow fit : Here is my throne , let kings come bow to it . D 2 Her Her voice , look , and perfon , in every KING 35 JOHN .
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... voice , look , and perfon , in every limb , seemed to be animated with the true fpirit which the author had infused into her cha- racter . And yet I remember , when Cibber's King John was in rehearfal at Drury - Lane the- atre , fo ...
... voice , look , and perfon , in every limb , seemed to be animated with the true fpirit which the author had infused into her cha- racter . And yet I remember , when Cibber's King John was in rehearfal at Drury - Lane the- atre , fo ...
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... voice was so happily modu- lated by a most accurate ear , that every material word in this uncommon burft of indignation , was impreffed fo judiciously and harmoniously upon the audience , that they could not refrain a loud and repeated ...
... voice was so happily modu- lated by a most accurate ear , that every material word in this uncommon burft of indignation , was impreffed fo judiciously and harmoniously upon the audience , that they could not refrain a loud and repeated ...
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217 ページ - By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-fac'd moon ; Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowne'd honour by the locks...
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.