An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Comedian and Patentee of the Theatre RoyalW. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1822 - 514 ページ |
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acted actors actress admired appearance applause audience auditors Barton Booth better Betterton Booth Bracegirdle character chuse Cibber COLLEY CIBBER Collier comedian comedy court D'Avenant delight Dogget Dramatic Miscellanies Drury-lane duke's duke's company entertainment equal Estcourt excellence farther favour fortune friends gave gentleman give happy Hart Haymarket honour humour inclination judge judgment King king's company knew Kynaston labour lady laugh least Leigh less liberty license Lincoln's Inn Fields Lord Chamberlain Maid's Tragedy manager manner master merit Mohun Mountfort nature never Nokes obliged observed occasion Oldfield opera opinion Othello passion patentees performance perhaps person play pleasure pounds Powel pretend profits racter reader reason scenes seemed Shakspeare share Sir Richard Steele speak spectators spirit stage success sure Swiny taste Tattler theatre theatre royal theatrical thought tion Tony Leigh took tragedy truth vanity voice Wilks William D'Avenant write
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480 ページ - O, curse of marriage, That we can call these delicate creatures ours, And not their appetites ! I had rather be a toad, And live upon the vapour of a dungeon, Than keep a corner in the thing I love, For others
89 ページ - All this ? ay, more: Fret, till your proud heart break; Go, show your slaves how choleric you are, And make your bondmen tremble.
480 ページ - This fellow's of exceeding honesty, And knows all qualities, with a learned spirit, Of human dealings. If I do prove her haggard, Though that her jesses were my dear heart-strings, I 'ld whistle her off and let her down the wind, To prey at fortune.
107 ページ - He had little eyes, and a broad face, a little pock-fretten, a corpulent body, and thick legs, with large feet. He was better to meet, than to follow; for his aspect was serious, venerable, and majestic; in his latter time a little paralytic His voice was low and grumbling; yet he could time it by an artful climax, which enforced universal attention, even from the fops and orange-girls.
105 ページ - ... put me when I have displeased him. It is indeed to his exquisite talent this way, more than any philosophy I could read on the subject, that my person is very little of my care, and it is indifferent to me what is said of my shape, my air, my manner, my speech, or my address. It is to poor Estcourt I chiefly owe that I am arrived at the happiness of thinking nothing a diminution to me but what argues a depravity of my will.
105 ページ - It is certainly as great an instance of self-love to a weakness, to be impatient of being mimicked, as any can be imagined. There were none but the vain, the formal, the proud, or those who were incapable of amending their faults, that dreaded him; to others he was in the highest degree pleasing; and I do not know any satisfaction of any indifferent kind I ever tasted so much as having got over an impatience of my seeing myself in the air he could put me when I have displeased him.
295 ページ - Not long before this time, the Italian opera began first to steal into England ; but in as rude a disguise, and as unlike itself as possible; in a lame, hobbling translation into our own language, with false quantities, or metre out of measure, to its original notes, sung by our own unskilful voices, with graces misapplied to almost every sentiment, and with action lifeless and unmeaning, through every character.
206 ページ - Dryden complaining to the company of his want of proffit, the company was so kind to him that they not only did not presse him for the playes which he so engaged to write for them, and for which he was paid beforehand, but they did also at his earnest request give him a third day for his last new play called All for Love...
117 ページ - I have hardly a notion, that any performer of antiquity could surpass the action of Mr. Betterton in any of the occasions in which he has appeared on our stage. The wonderful agony which he appeared in, when he examined the circumstance of the handkerchief in Othello...
206 ページ - ... and given it to the Duke's Company, contrary to his said agreement, his promise, and all gratitude, to the great prejudice and almost undoing of the Company, they being the only poets remaining to us, Mr. Crowne, being under the like agreement with the Duke's House, writt a play, called the ' Destruction of Jerusalem,' and being forced, by their refusal!