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 6
Feff . ' Twill be hard to persuade him to it . Pru . This old Lady of mine has
languish'd for a young Husband ever since Sir Oliver Laycock dy'd ; She cares
not what Eftaté he has , or what Religion he's of , so he be but young and lusty .
Where is ...
Feff . ' Twill be hard to persuade him to it . Pru . This old Lady of mine has
languish'd for a young Husband ever since Sir Oliver Laycock dy'd ; She cares
not what Eftaté he has , or what Religion he's of , so he be but young and lusty .
Where is ...
Sivu 17
Feff . No body of the Family has seen him yet , but the Butler ; and he , I know ,
will be secret . I'll ftep and call him to you ,. Sir , if you please ? Cun . Do so . ( Exit
Jeff In the mean time , Prudence , there's fomething to buy thee á Pair of Gloves .
Feff . No body of the Family has seen him yet , but the Butler ; and he , I know ,
will be secret . I'll ftep and call him to you ,. Sir , if you please ? Cun . Do so . ( Exit
Jeff In the mean time , Prudence , there's fomething to buy thee á Pair of Gloves .
Sivu 63
Feff . Sir , your Lawyer bid me tell you , your Cause is just now coming on ; and if
you do not appear , you'll be non - fuited . Widow . Dear Sir , do not negle & t your
Business , nor let your being a - kin trouble you . When next I see you . Cun .
Feff . Sir , your Lawyer bid me tell you , your Cause is just now coming on ; and if
you do not appear , you'll be non - fuited . Widow . Dear Sir , do not negle & t your
Business , nor let your being a - kin trouble you . When next I see you . Cun .
Sivu 64
feff . If your Ladyship will have Patience to hear me out , you shall know the whole
Story . Widow . With all my Heart , Feffrey . Feff . Why , you must know , Madam ,
my Master had the Misfortune to quarrel with a Gentleman , who urg'd him to ...
feff . If your Ladyship will have Patience to hear me out , you shall know the whole
Story . Widow . With all my Heart , Feffrey . Feff . Why , you must know , Madam ,
my Master had the Misfortune to quarrel with a Gentleman , who urg'd him to ...
Sivu 65
6 Feff . Very likely so , Madam . Next Day my Ma The cry'd , and urg'd his stay ,
and his Vows to marry her . Widow . He had been more to blame to have done
that . Fejf . In the mean time the Viscount return'd , found his Sister in Tears , wou'
d ...
6 Feff . Very likely so , Madam . Next Day my Ma The cry'd , and urg'd his stay ,
and his Vows to marry her . Widow . He had been more to blame to have done
that . Fejf . In the mean time the Viscount return'd , found his Sister in Tears , wou'
d ...
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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.