The Life of Mr. Thomas Betterton, the Late Eminent Tragedian. Wherein the Action and Utterance of the Stage, Bar, and Pulpit, are Distinctly Consider'd. ... To which is Added, The Amorous Widow, ... Written by Mr. Betterton. ... |
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Sivu 54
... which may be offensive to the Eye of the Spectator , as well as nothing grating
and disobliging to the Ears of his Auditors , in his Pronunciation ; else will his
Person be less agreeable , and his Speech less efficacious to both , by wanting
all ...
... which may be offensive to the Eye of the Spectator , as well as nothing grating
and disobliging to the Ears of his Auditors , in his Pronunciation ; else will his
Person be less agreeable , and his Speech less efficacious to both , by wanting
all ...
Sivu 89
For as Black Itrikes the Eyes more dully , so does this fort of Voice penetrate the
Ears with greater Difficuļty , and carries with it less of the Pleasant , but something
on the contrary of the dismal and borrid . Next the dusky or brown , differs from ...
For as Black Itrikes the Eyes more dully , so does this fort of Voice penetrate the
Ears with greater Difficuļty , and carries with it less of the Pleasant , but something
on the contrary of the dismal and borrid . Next the dusky or brown , differs from ...
Sivu 90
Strait or sender , which is slenderly melted thro ' the narrow Channel of the Throat
, and fills not the Ears of the Hearers . Dusucous , that which is not heard without
Difficulty , or that which is very importunately troublesome to the Ears .
Strait or sender , which is slenderly melted thro ' the narrow Channel of the Throat
, and fills not the Ears of the Hearers . Dusucous , that which is not heard without
Difficulty , or that which is very importunately troublesome to the Ears .
Sivu 91
Hard or barsh , which offends the Ears with a sort of bouncing and cracking Noise
. Desultory ' or broken , which is when the Difcourse leaps or bounds , as it were
with unequal Distances and Sounds , confusedly mixing short and long , flat ...
Hard or barsh , which offends the Ears with a sort of bouncing and cracking Noise
. Desultory ' or broken , which is when the Difcourse leaps or bounds , as it were
with unequal Distances and Sounds , confusedly mixing short and long , flat ...
Sivu 144
But what was yet ' worse , their Taste was so far sunk , that they were pleas'd with
wliat shock'd a nice Ear , and what could not divert a curious Eye . For first , the
best of French Dancers are without Variety ; their Steps , their Pofture , their ...
But what was yet ' worse , their Taste was so far sunk , that they were pleas'd with
wliat shock'd a nice Ear , and what could not divert a curious Eye . For first , the
best of French Dancers are without Variety ; their Steps , their Pofture , their ...
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according Action Actor Audience Author Beauty becauſe believe beſt better Body Britt Buſineſs Clod comes Cuningham Damaris Dancing Diſcourſe Ears Enter Excellence Exit expreſs Eyes Face fame Feff Fellow firſt fome Force Friend Geſture give Grace Hands Head hear heard himſelf hold Honour Houſe Husband I'll juſt kind Lady laſt leave live Looks Lord Love Lovemore Madam manner marry Maſter mean Mind moſt Motions Muſic muſt Nature never once Paſſion Perſon Phil Place Play Player pleaſe Power Pray Prudence Quality Reaſon Rules ſaid ſame ſay ſee ſeem ſelf ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhould ſince Sir Peter ſome Soul Sound ſpeak Speaking Speech Stage Subject ſuch tell themſelves theſe thing thoſe thou thought told Tone true turn underſtand uſe Viſcount Voice whole Widow Wife young
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Sivu 119 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil, that men do, lives after them ; The good is oft interred with their bones ; So let it be with Caesar.
Sivu 115 - Hear, Nature, hear ! dear goddess, hear ! Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend To make this creature fruitful ! Into her womb convey sterility ! Dry up in her the organs of increase, And from her derogate body never spring A babe to honour her ! If she must teem...
Sivu 82 - Herod. Pray you, avoid it. Be not too tame, neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor; suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature...
Sivu 116 - Make me to see't; or, at the least, so prove it, That the probation bear no hinge nor loop To hang a doubt on ; or woe upon thy life ! lago.
Sivu 24 - Oh ! it offends me to the foul, to hear a robufteous periwig-pated fellow tear a paffion to tatters, to very rags, to fplit the ears of the groundlings ; who (for the moft part) are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb fhews and neife : I could have fuch a fellow whipp'd for o'erdoing termagant ; it out-herods Herod. Pray you, avoid it.
Sivu 16 - Practice to confult e'en the moft indifferent Poet in any Part we have thought fit to accept of...
Sivu 70 - A broken voice, and his whole function suiting With forms to his conceit? and all for nothing! For Hecuba! What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her...
Sivu 9 - ... apiece for every day there shall be any playing at the King's Theatre. Mr. Hart and Mr. Kynaston do both also promise to promote with all their power and interest an agreement between both playhouses : and Mr. Kynaston for himself promises to endeavour as much as he can to get free that he may act at the Duke's Playhouse, but he is not obliged to play unless he have ten shillings per day allowed for his acting and his pension then to cease. Mr. Hart and Mr. Kynaston promise to go to law with...
Sivu xiii - What he has been, though present praise be dumb, Shall haply be a Theme in times to come, As now we talk of RosciUS, and of Rome. Had you with-held your favours on this night, Old Shakespear's Ghost had ris'n to do him right.
Sivu 17 - ... some rules, by which the young beginners might direct themselves to that perfection, which everybody is sensible is extremely (and perhaps always has been) wanted on our stage I wish I could prevail with you to deliver your sentiments on this head, so that from them we might form a system of acting, which might be a rule to future players and teach them to excel not only themselves, but those who have gone before them.
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| Otsikko | The Life of Mr. Thomas Betterton, the Late Eminent Tragedian. Wherein the Action and Utterance of the Stage, Bar, and Pulpit, are Distinctly Consider'd. ... To which is Added, The Amorous Widow, ... Written by Mr. Betterton. ... The Life of Mr. Thomas Betterton, the Late Eminent Tragedian. Wherein the Action and Utterance of the Stage, Bar, and Pulpit, are Distinctly Consider'd. ... To which is Added, The Amorous Widow, ... Written by Mr. Betterton, Charles Gildon |
| Kirjoittaja | Charles Gildon |
| Kustantaja | Robert Gosling, 1710 |
| Alkuperäisteoksen sijainti | Oxfordin yliopisto |
| Digitoitu | 13. syyskuu 2007 |
| Pituus | 87 sivua |
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