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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... seen . great variety of fortunes ; principally those of foolish young lords , fast young guardsmen , and some hoary old sinners ; she was the Ninon de l'Enclos of her day , less the piquancy and delicatesse d'esprit of the French Laïs ...
... seen . great variety of fortunes ; principally those of foolish young lords , fast young guardsmen , and some hoary old sinners ; she was the Ninon de l'Enclos of her day , less the piquancy and delicatesse d'esprit of the French Laïs ...
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... seen a good many plays , and the performances of most of the principal actors of the day . I had seen old Kean as a boy , and sat on the knees of John Kemble , as a baby ; but acting is not to be acquired by contact or by imposition of ...
... seen a good many plays , and the performances of most of the principal actors of the day . I had seen old Kean as a boy , and sat on the knees of John Kemble , as a baby ; but acting is not to be acquired by contact or by imposition of ...
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... seen it played myself , yet I thought that more than counterbalanced by my es- caping comparison with living actors of eminence — a comparison always dangerous , oftentimes fatal to a young aspirant . Leon had been a great character ...
... seen it played myself , yet I thought that more than counterbalanced by my es- caping comparison with living actors of eminence — a comparison always dangerous , oftentimes fatal to a young aspirant . Leon had been a great character ...
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... seen the performance from the front , and in the frankest manner offered his congratu- lations he was a member of the Covent Garden Company . Tom Greene , as he was called , a comedian whose legs were said to have twice made his fortune ...
... seen the performance from the front , and in the frankest manner offered his congratu- lations he was a member of the Covent Garden Company . Tom Greene , as he was called , a comedian whose legs were said to have twice made his fortune ...
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... seen any actor or actress that could approach him , except the Italian RISTORI , of whom I shall speak more fully hereafter . Kean's general method was probably built on COOKE'S ( George Frederick ) ; surpassing his predeces- sor ...
... seen any actor or actress that could approach him , except the Italian RISTORI , of whom I shall speak more fully hereafter . Kean's general method was probably built on COOKE'S ( George Frederick ) ; surpassing his predeces- sor ...
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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...