Occasional Papers: Dramatic and HistoricalSmall, Maynard, 1907 - 225 من الصفحات |
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actor or actress actors and actresses admiration appearance Aram's arrest art of acting artist asked Assize Court audience Barton Booth Bastide and Jausion believe Betterton Booth Bousquier brother calling Cato cause character charm Christopher Rich Churchill Cibber Clarke Clémandot Clive Colard Colley Colley Cibber comedy confession court crime criticism David Garrick death dramatic dramatist Drury Lane eighteenth century Eugene Aram father friends Fualdès Garrick genius gentleman Hamlet hand heard Horace Walpole Houseman John Kemble judge Knaresborough lady lives Macbeth Macklin Madame Manzon Mahony manager Missonier murder nature never night occasion Oldfield passion persons play players poet popular Prefect prisoners profession purser's cabin Quin regard replied reputation resentment respect Rodez Samuel scene Siddons Sir Edward Blackett Sir John speak stage story success theatre theatrical Theophilus Cibber things tion told tragedy trial truth vanity whilst wife Wilks witness Woffington woman Bancal writes young
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الصفحة 38 - 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...
الصفحة 21 - I was resolved to walk thither and see the last office done to a man whom I had always very much admired, and from whose action I had received more strong impressions of what is great and noble in human nature, than from the arguments of the most solid philosophers, or the descriptions of the most charming poets I had ever read.
الصفحة 116 - Till one wide conflagration swallows all. Thence a new world, to nature's laws unknown, Breaks out refulgent, with a heaven its own: Another Cynthia her new journey runs, And other planets circle other suns. The forests dance, the rivers upward rise, Whales sport in woods, and dolphins in the skies; And last, to give the whole creation grace, Lo! one vast egg produces human race. Joy fills his soul, joy innocent of thought; What power, he cries, what power these wonders wrought?
الصفحة 29 - Tis yours, this night, to bid the reign commence Of rescued Nature and reviving Sense ; To chase the charms of sound, the pomp of show, For useful mirth and salutary woe ; Bid scenic Virtue form the rising age, And Truth diffuse her radiance from the stage.
الصفحة 32 - Cold are those hands, which, living, were stretched forth At friendship's call to succour modest worth. Here lies James Quin ! deign reader to be taught (Whate'er thy strength of body, force of thought, In nature's happiest mould however cast), To this complexion thou must come at last.
الصفحة 36 - Clive. In spite of outward blemishes, she shone, For humour famed, and humour all her own : Easy, as if at home, the stage she trod, Nor sought the critic's praise, nor fear'd his rod : 690 Original in spirit and in ease, She pleased by hiding all attempts to please : No comic actress ever yet could raise, On humour's base, more merit or more praise.
الصفحة 61 - ... is, and ought to be, in many points of view, and strictly speaking, no imitation at all of external nature. Perhaps it ought to be as far removed from the vulgar idea of imitation as the refined civilised state in which we live is removed from a gross state of nature...
الصفحة 56 - Garrick, the charming man, the fine fellow, the delightful creature, both by men and ladies, when they were admiring everything you did and everything you scribbled, at this very time, /, the.
الصفحة 114 - Circe,' and others, all set off with the most expensive decorations of scenes and habits, with the best voices and dancers. " This sensual supply of sight and sound coming in to the assistance of the weaker party, it was no wonder they should grow too hard for sense and simple nature, when it is considered how many more people there are that can see and hear than think and judge.
الصفحة 47 - Whose features, as each other they disdain'd, At variance set, inflexible, and coarse, Ne'er know the workings of united force, Ne'er kindly soften to each other's aid, Nor shew the mingled pow'rs of light and shade.