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. ...Robert Gosling, 1710 - 87 sivua |
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Sivu 44
... Motion of the Eyes , argues malicious Manners , and per- verfe and noxious Thought and Inclinations . Eyes drown'd in Tears difcover the most ve- hement and cruel Grief , which is not capable of Eafe ev'n from Tears themfelves . To ...
... Motion of the Eyes , argues malicious Manners , and per- verfe and noxious Thought and Inclinations . Eyes drown'd in Tears difcover the most ve- hement and cruel Grief , which is not capable of Eafe ev'n from Tears themfelves . To ...
Sivu 47
... Motions the Hands have , without which all " Action wou'd be maim'd and lame , fince these " Motions are almost as various as the Words we fpeak . For the other Parts may be faid to " help a Man when he speaks , but the Hands " ( as I ...
... Motions the Hands have , without which all " Action wou'd be maim'd and lame , fince these " Motions are almost as various as the Words we fpeak . For the other Parts may be faid to " help a Man when he speaks , but the Hands " ( as I ...
Sivu 48
... Motion are the Habit of the inconftant and fluctuating in their Counfels and Refolves . And the Greeks thought this in Women a fign of a flagitious Temper . Thus I have gone through my Jefuit's Obfer- vations of the feveral Geftures and ...
... Motion are the Habit of the inconftant and fluctuating in their Counfels and Refolves . And the Greeks thought this in Women a fign of a flagitious Temper . Thus I have gone through my Jefuit's Obfer- vations of the feveral Geftures and ...
Sivu 49
... Motions of the Hands were fo well known to the Frequenters of the Theatres , that , like our talking on our Fingers with those , who understand it , there would be no Difficulty in the Reprefentation ; but that if any Stranger or ...
... Motions of the Hands were fo well known to the Frequenters of the Theatres , that , like our talking on our Fingers with those , who understand it , there would be no Difficulty in the Reprefentation ; but that if any Stranger or ...
Sivu 50
... Motions of the Hands , and other Members of the Body , which are obvious to the Understanding of all fenfible Men of all Nations . If thofe which I have given you from my Jefuit be not , yet I am very fure , that many of them are ...
... Motions of the Hands , and other Members of the Body , which are obvious to the Understanding of all fenfible Men of all Nations . If thofe which I have given you from my Jefuit be not , yet I am very fure , that many of them are ...
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Action Actor Afide againſt Anſwer Beauty becauſe beſt Betterton Body Britt Bufinefs Buſineſs call'd Caufe Charles Davenant Cicero cife Clod confefs Cuningham Damaris Dancing Demetrius the Cynic Demofthenes Difcourfe Exit exprefs Eyes faid fame feem feen Feff felf feveral fhall fhew fhort fhould fince firft firſt fome fomething fometimes foon fpeak ftill ftrong fuch fufficient fure Geſture give Hands hear Henry Purcel himſelf Honour Houſe Husband Jeff juft Lady laft lefs Love Lovemore Madam Mafter moft moſt Motions Mufic muft muſt know Nature never obferve Opera's Paffion Perfon perfuade Phil Play Player pleafing pleaſe Pleaſure Plutarch Pray prefent Pronunciation Prudence Quintilian raiſe Reafon reprefent Senfe ſhall Sir Peter ſpeak Speaking Speech Stage tell thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe Thomas Betterton thoſe thou Tone twill underſtand unleſs uſe Vifc Viſcount Voice Widow Words 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.