Memoirs of the Life of John Philip Kemble, Esq: Including a History of the Stage, from the Time of Garrick to the Present Period, Volumen1R.H. Small, 1825 - 607 páginas |
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... nature than wit . This first mention of Mr. Sheridan is a temptation to step a little back , for the object of noticing the succes- sion of his dramatic efforts . His success was so prodi- gious , that one must have personally known Mr ...
... nature than wit . This first mention of Mr. Sheridan is a temptation to step a little back , for the object of noticing the succes- sion of his dramatic efforts . His success was so prodi- gious , that one must have personally known Mr ...
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... nature . Macbeth . Academic style . Melody . Familiar touches in diction . Sir Joshua Reynolds quoted in support of the au- thor's opinions . Colman's season , 1784. Two to One . Mrs. Inchbald . Holcroft's Noble Peasant . Hayley's Lord ...
... nature . Macbeth . Academic style . Melody . Familiar touches in diction . Sir Joshua Reynolds quoted in support of the au- thor's opinions . Colman's season , 1784. Two to One . Mrs. Inchbald . Holcroft's Noble Peasant . Hayley's Lord ...
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... nature . He had felt that the report of his education was serviceable to him ; it gave him consideration with those who had learning , and a little awed the decisions of those who had none . The more various the display he could make of ...
... nature . He had felt that the report of his education was serviceable to him ; it gave him consideration with those who had learning , and a little awed the decisions of those who had none . The more various the display he could make of ...
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... nature are so easily invented , and the probable is so sure to be asserted as the true , that the event may be the safest guide . I rather think that , had Mr. Kemble proposed himself , he would not have been refused . Although Mr ...
... nature are so easily invented , and the probable is so sure to be asserted as the true , that the event may be the safest guide . I rather think that , had Mr. Kemble proposed himself , he would not have been refused . Although Mr ...
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... nature of the exhibition : For this Night only , An Attic Evening's Entertainment . THEATRE , LEEDS . On Monday Evening , June 24 , 1780 , at 7 o'clock , MR . KEMBLE Will deliver a Lecture on the Art of Speaking . PART FIRST . Sacred ...
... nature of the exhibition : For this Night only , An Attic Evening's Entertainment . THEATRE , LEEDS . On Monday Evening , June 24 , 1780 , at 7 o'clock , MR . KEMBLE Will deliver a Lecture on the Art of Speaking . PART FIRST . Sacred ...
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Página 56 - I have of late (but wherefore, I know not) lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and, indee'd, it goes so heavily with my disposition, that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me, than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors.
Página 368 - twere with a defeated joy, With one auspicious and one dropping eye, With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage, In equal scale weighing delight and dole...
Página 63 - Angels and ministers of grace defend us! Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd, Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane, O, answer me!
Página 449 - Dire was the tossing, deep the groans : Despair Tended the sick, busiest from couch to couch ; And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, but delay'd to strike, though oft invoked With vows, as their chief good, and final hope.
Página 224 - For rising merit will buoy up at last. Might he return, and bless once more our eyes, New...
Página 388 - They boast they come but to improve our state, enlarge our thoughts, and free us from the yoke of error ! Yes : they will give enlightened freedom to our minds, who are themselves the slaves of passion, avarice, and pride ! They offer us their protection : yes, such protection as vultures give to lambs— covering and devouring them! They call...
Página 256 - AN old song made by an aged old pate, Of an old worshipful gentleman, who had a great estate, That kept a brave old house at a bountiful rate, And an old porter to relieve the poor at his gate ; Like an old courtier of the queen's, And the queen's old courtier.
Página 36 - Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale; sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense or the affinity of their sound...
Página 36 - ... an objection : sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense: sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a mimical look or gesture passeth for it.
Página 185 - That must be utter'd to unfold the sage And serious doctrine of Virginity; And thou art worthy that thou shouldst not know More happiness than this thy present lot. Enjoy your dear Wit and gay Rhetoric 790 That hath so well been taught...