Scenes from the Life of an ActorGarrett & Company, 1853 - 246 páginas |
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... Hill's pe- culiar talent upon the stage of the theatre , will under- stand the foundation of his popularity . Many who have never enjoyed the sight of the great delineator of " Yankee character " upon the stage 1V PREFACE .
... Hill's pe- culiar talent upon the stage of the theatre , will under- stand the foundation of his popularity . Many who have never enjoyed the sight of the great delineator of " Yankee character " upon the stage 1V PREFACE .
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... never become acquainted with his sayings and doings , nor be able to judge in any degree of the elements in his character which in his professional doings invested it with an honorable celebrity . A player may be said to live two lives ...
... never become acquainted with his sayings and doings , nor be able to judge in any degree of the elements in his character which in his professional doings invested it with an honorable celebrity . A player may be said to live two lives ...
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... never was large for my age , whatever that age might have been when the question of size came up for domestic discussion . When " Little Hill " was called I answered , whether it was to receive my share of bread and butter , the usual ...
... never was large for my age , whatever that age might have been when the question of size came up for domestic discussion . When " Little Hill " was called I answered , whether it was to receive my share of bread and butter , the usual ...
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... never leaving the circle in which I moved , was jostled so often by the nymphs or the muses attend at the time upon my dramatic longings , that I did not become quite a monomaniac under the hallucination adverted to above . Dates then ...
... never leaving the circle in which I moved , was jostled so often by the nymphs or the muses attend at the time upon my dramatic longings , that I did not become quite a monomaniac under the hallucination adverted to above . Dates then ...
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... never failed to convince me of the absurdity of some of my propositions before I had promulgated my crudities to my schoolmates ; thus I escaped ridicule and sarcasm -- weapons not of the hands- always to be used against me with effect ...
... never failed to convince me of the absurdity of some of my propositions before I had promulgated my crudities to my schoolmates ; thus I escaped ridicule and sarcasm -- weapons not of the hands- always to be used against me with effect ...
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50 Cents a'ter acquainted actor adventures æronaut afore amusement Amy Lawrence asked audience balloon Bill Bill Brown Blake Boston BUSTLE called Carlisle comedian comic critter diskivered dollars door dramatic engaged England eyes feller folks Forrest Rose gentleman George George Handel ginerally give Go to blazes Green Mountain Boy guess hand Hill's Hitty honor horse illustrated incidents intew Isaac Barrow Jakeman JEDEDIAH Julius Cæsar kind land larn laugh leetle letter live look manager MARKAM mind Miss Spinks mother never night nothin octavo pages Park theatre Parkins performance persons play player racter reader romance s'pose scenes Sergeant Sampson Simpson song squire stage stars story stun Taunton tavern tell there's things thought tion TOMPKINS town trade Uncle WHEELER Yankee character Yankee Hill young
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Página 192 - But these are but their outcasts. View them near At home, where all their worth and pride is placed; And there their hospitable fires burn clear, And there the lowliest farm-house hearth is graced With manly hearts, in piety sincere, Faithful in love, in honor stern and chaste, In friendship warm and true, in danger brave, Beloved in life, and sainted in the grave.
Página 196 - ... accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed, that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Página 164 - Sir, he hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book ; he hath not eat paper, as it were ; he hath not drunk ink : his intellect is not replenished ; he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts...
Página 188 - Oh — never may a son of thine, Where'er his wandering steps incline, Forget the sky which bent above His childhood like a dream of love — The stream beneath the green hill flowing — The broad-armed trees above it growing — The clear breeze through the foliage blowing; Or, hear unmoved the taunt of scorn Breathed o'er the brave New England born...
Página 192 - Or, wandering through the southern countries, teaching The ABC from Webster's spelling-book; Gallant and Godly, making love and preaching, And gaining, by what they call " hook and crook," And what the moralists call overreaching, A decent living. The Virginians look Upon them with as favorable eyes As Gabriel on the devil in paradise.
Página 114 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden -flower grows wild; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year...
Página 188 - Land of the beautiful and brave— The freeman's home— the martyr's grave— The nursery of giant men, Whose deeds have linked with every glen, And every hill and every stream, The romance of some warrior-dream!
Página 187 - LAND of the forest and the rock, Of dark blue lake and mighty river, Of mountains reared aloft to mock The storm's career, the lightning's shock, My own green land forever...
Página 12 - I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood.