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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Sivu 9
... out ; and divers were the comments and prophecies " In accents terrible , Of dire combustion and confused events , " to attach themselves to me henceforth and forever . The mildest judgment passed on me was that I was 1 *
... out ; and divers were the comments and prophecies " In accents terrible , Of dire combustion and confused events , " to attach themselves to me henceforth and forever . The mildest judgment passed on me was that I was 1 *
Sivu 10
... passed on me was that I was mad ; the gentlest sentence , that I was ruined . But , thank heaven ! I have never yet worn a straight jacket , and I have continued to " hold my own " up to the present writing , June , 1859 . Well , I made ...
... passed on me was that I was mad ; the gentlest sentence , that I was ruined . But , thank heaven ! I have never yet worn a straight jacket , and I have continued to " hold my own " up to the present writing , June , 1859 . Well , I made ...
Sivu 26
... passed freely round . The conversation naturally turned on his recent visit to America , thence to Cooke's death , the place of his burial , and the stone that Kean had raised above his head . " All that is wanting , now , " said Kean ...
... passed freely round . The conversation naturally turned on his recent visit to America , thence to Cooke's death , the place of his burial , and the stone that Kean had raised above his head . " All that is wanting , now , " said Kean ...
Sivu 35
... passing tribute to a father's name : I may say , with a slight alteration , with the poet , for it has not come to desiderium yet ; he still lives : Quis desiderio sit pudor aut modus Tam cari capitis ! ) Well , as to myself , I was ...
... passing tribute to a father's name : I may say , with a slight alteration , with the poet , for it has not come to desiderium yet ; he still lives : Quis desiderio sit pudor aut modus Tam cari capitis ! ) Well , as to myself , I was ...
Sivu 39
... passed on me in London . So I had reason to congratulate myself on my first engagement at Liverpool , where , from old as- sociations in a different sphere , the ordeal was a try- ing one . One incident that happened to me on the stage ...
... passed on me in London . So I had reason to congratulate myself on my first engagement at Liverpool , where , from old as- sociations in a different sphere , the ordeal was a try- ing one . One incident that happened to me on the stage ...
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actor actress admirably amused appearance applause artist audience Barry beautiful Cæsar CALIFORNIA LIBRARY called CAPT character Charles CHARLES KEAN Charles Kemble Charles Mathews Charlotte Cushman comedy CORALIE WALTON Countess of Harrington course Covent Garden Theatre delight dinner Drama dress elegant engaged England exclaimed eyes Farren father Faulconbridge feeling friends Garrick Club gave genius gentleman George Vandenhoff give grace Green-Room Hamlet hand Haymarket Haymarket Theatre heart honor Iago John Kemble 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 profession rehearsal replied Romeo scene season seemed Shakspere Shaksperean SMITH stage strong style taste theatrical thing thought tion tragedian tragedy voice WAITER week wife words young
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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 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 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 24 - He hath disgraced me, and hindered me 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 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 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 340 - Sneer: I am quite of your opinion, Mrs. Dangle; the theatre in proper hands, might certainly be made the school of morality; but now, I am sorry to say it, people seem to go there principally for their entertainment!
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 346 - His was the spell o'er hearts Which only acting lends, — The youngest of the sister arts, Where all their beauty blends : For ill can poetry express Full many a tone of thought sublime, And painting, mute and motionless, Steals but a glance of time. But by the mighty actor brought, Illusion's perfect triumphs come — Verse ceases to be airy thought, And sculpture to be dumb.
Sivu 124 - IT has been observed by Boileau that, " a mean or common thought, expressed in pompous diction, generally pleases more than a new or noble sentiment delivered in low and vulgar language ; because the number is greater of those whom custom has enabled to judge of words than whom study has qualified...