Leaves from an Actor's Note-book: With Reminiscences and Chit-chat of the Green-room and the Stage, in England and AmericaD. Appleton, 1860 - 347 sivua |
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... believe , by that means , saved myself from insanity - perhaps from a drunkard's fate . I vow I had no particular predilection for the stage . My father was an actor , it is true , and an emi- nent and prosperous one ; but I was ...
... believe , by that means , saved myself from insanity - perhaps from a drunkard's fate . I vow I had no particular predilection for the stage . My father was an actor , it is true , and an emi- nent and prosperous one ; but I was ...
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... believe this is not unfrequently the case , too . The novice is not fully conscious of the difficulties of the task that he has undertaken , and of the thousand and one chances that may balk his success ; he is , conse- quently , if his ...
... believe this is not unfrequently the case , too . The novice is not fully conscious of the difficulties of the task that he has undertaken , and of the thousand and one chances that may balk his success ; he is , conse- quently , if his ...
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... believe , Mrs. W. Clifford , mother - in- law of Harrison the singer , who well rebuked this ty- rannic egoism . He had been remorselessly hammer- ing a speech into her ears at rehearsal , in his staccato , extra - syllabic manner ...
... believe , Mrs. W. Clifford , mother - in- law of Harrison the singer , who well rebuked this ty- rannic egoism . He had been remorselessly hammer- ing a speech into her ears at rehearsal , in his staccato , extra - syllabic manner ...
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... believe me , reader , in spite of the common cant about " spontaneous genius , " study , cultivation , observation , reflection , labor , are the talismans to success . Genius is a high , a special gift of God ; but it must be wrought ...
... believe me , reader , in spite of the common cant about " spontaneous genius , " study , cultivation , observation , reflection , labor , are the talismans to success . Genius is a high , a special gift of God ; but it must be wrought ...
Sivu 28
... believe , with an ample fortune to crown them , CHARLES KEAN , educated at Eton , and destined by his father for the army , donned the buskin at about : SONS OF ACTORS . 29 eighteen years of age 28 AN ACTOR'S NOTE - BOOK .
... believe , with an ample fortune to crown them , CHARLES KEAN , educated at Eton , and destined by his father for the army , donned the buskin at about : SONS OF ACTORS . 29 eighteen years of age 28 AN ACTOR'S NOTE - BOOK .
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actor actress admirably amused appearance applause artist audience Barry beautiful Cæsar called CAPT character Charles CHARLES KEAN Charles Kemble Charles Mathews Charlotte Cushman comedy CORALIE WALTON Countess of Harrington course Covent Garden Theatre daughter delight dinner Drama dress elegant engaged England exclaimed eyes Farren father Faulconbridge feeling friends Garrick Club gave genius gentleman George Vandenhoff grace Green-Room Hamlet hand Haymarket Haymarket Theatre heart honor Iago Julius Cæsar Kean Kemble King Lady Liverpool London look Lord Macbeth Macready Madame Vestris manager manner Mathews ment mind Miss Walton nature never night Nisbett Othello Park Theatre passion perfect performance play present rehearsal replied Romeo scene season seemed Shakspere Shaksperean SMITH spirit stage strong style talents taste Theatre Royal theatrical thing thought tion tragedian tragedy voice WAITER week wife words young
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Sivu 15 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.
Sivu 84 - Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and cranks,* and wanton* wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Sivu 73 - Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had liv'da blessed time; for, from this instant, There's nothing serious in mortality : All is but toys : renown, and grace, is dead ; The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of.
Sivu 24 - He hath disgraced me, and hindered me of half a million ; laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies ; and what's his reason ? I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?
Sivu 275 - The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword; The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
Sivu 16 - I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus ; but use all gently : for in the very torrent, tempest, and (as I may say) whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance, that may give it smoothness.
Sivu 316 - Retain that dear perfection which he owes Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name; And for that name, which is no part of thee, Take all myself.
Sivu 76 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Sivu 308 - Why then, take no note of him, but let him go ; and presently call the rest of the watch together, and thank God you are rid of a knave.
Sivu 127 - No : gayer insects fluttering by Ne'er droop the wing o'er those that die, And lovelier things have mercy shown To every failing but their own, And every woe a tear can claim Except an erring sister's shame.