Autobiographies: A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever Published, Volumen1Whittaker, Treacher, and Arnot, 1830 |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 54
Página 16
... be , that he cannot quite prevail with his friends to think him a worse manager than he really is ; for they carry their raillery to such a height , that it some- times rises to a charge of downright avarice against him 16 THE LIFE OF.
... be , that he cannot quite prevail with his friends to think him a worse manager than he really is ; for they carry their raillery to such a height , that it some- times rises to a charge of downright avarice against him 16 THE LIFE OF.
Página 62
... manager ( not an actor ) joined with us ; who , by the crown's indulgence , was sometimes too of our own choosing . Under this heavy establishment then groaned this united company , when I was first admitted into the lowest rank of it ...
... manager ( not an actor ) joined with us ; who , by the crown's indulgence , was sometimes too of our own choosing . Under this heavy establishment then groaned this united company , when I was first admitted into the lowest rank of it ...
Página 112
... manager myself . I laid it down as a settled maxim , that no company could flourish while the chief actors and the undertakers were at variance . therefore made it a point , while it was possible upon tolerable terms , to keep the ...
... manager myself . I laid it down as a settled maxim , that no company could flourish while the chief actors and the undertakers were at variance . therefore made it a point , while it was possible upon tolerable terms , to keep the ...
Página 125
... good for . But to whatever chance my ill- fortune was due ; whether I had still but little merit , or that the managers , if I had any , were not compe- N tent judges of it ; or whether I was not MR COLLEY CIBBER . 125.
... good for . But to whatever chance my ill- fortune was due ; whether I had still but little merit , or that the managers , if I had any , were not compe- N tent judges of it ; or whether I was not MR COLLEY CIBBER . 125.
Página 163
... managers in a license with them for acting plays , & c . — a preferment that many a sir Francis Wronghead would have jumped at . But to go on with my story . This endeavour of the patentees to suppress the comedians acting in the ...
... managers in a license with them for acting plays , & c . — a preferment that many a sir Francis Wronghead would have jumped at . But to go on with my story . This endeavour of the patentees to suppress the comedians acting in the ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Autobiographies: A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing ..., Volumen1 Vista completa - 1826 |
Autobiographies: A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever ... BiblioBazaar Sin vista previa disponible - 2013 |
Términos y frases comunes
acted actors actress affairs allowed applause approbation audience auditors Beggar's Opera better Betterton Booth Cato character Cibber Colley Cibber Collier comedian comedy confess court delight Dogget Drury-lane entertainment equal excellence excuse extraordinary farther favour folly fortune friends gave gentleman give Haymarket Haymarket theatre honour hope humour imagined inclination judge judgment king knew labour laugh least Leigh less liberty license lord lord chamberlain Love for Love managers master ment merit nature never Nonjuror notwithstanding obliged observed occasion Oldfield opera opinion Othello particular passion patentees performance perhaps person play pleased pleasure pounds Powel pretend profits racter reader reason scenes seemed share sir John Vanbrugh sir Richard Steele sometimes speak spectators spirit stage sure Swiney taste Tatler temper terton theatre theatrical thought tion Tony Leigh took tragedy true truth vanity voice Whig Wilks