Dramatic Table Talk: Or, Scenes, Situations, & Adventures, Serious & Comic, in Theatrical History & Biography, Volume 1Richard Ryan J. Knight & H. Lacey, 1825 |
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... looks , their features , their actions , their attitudes , their movements , will assume , all at once , a terrible , grand , and solemn character , worthy , in both , of the pencil of the painter , and the study of the actor , and ...
... looks , their features , their actions , their attitudes , their movements , will assume , all at once , a terrible , grand , and solemn character , worthy , in both , of the pencil of the painter , and the study of the actor , and ...
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... looks , every thing , were reproduced , at every representation , with the same exactness , the same vigour , the same apparent artlessness ; and if there were any differences between one representation and another , it was always in ...
... looks , every thing , were reproduced , at every representation , with the same exactness , the same vigour , the same apparent artlessness ; and if there were any differences between one representation and another , it was always in ...
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... look out for ; he was , consequently , one of the actors the least applauded in his day , but he was the more admired by the Sçavans , and he rendered tragedy more familiar , without depriving it of its majestic proportions : he knew ...
... look out for ; he was , consequently , one of the actors the least applauded in his day , but he was the more admired by the Sçavans , and he rendered tragedy more familiar , without depriving it of its majestic proportions : he knew ...
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... look , ought then to precede the words , as the lightning's flash precedes the thunder . This display adds greatly to the expression , as it discovers a mind so profoundly imbued that , impatient to manifest itself , it THEATRICAL ART ...
... look , ought then to precede the words , as the lightning's flash precedes the thunder . This display adds greatly to the expression , as it discovers a mind so profoundly imbued that , impatient to manifest itself , it THEATRICAL ART ...
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... flames , surrounded by a concourse of people eager to look on , but loth to assist . A cry of distress was heard from within , he instantly threw off his coat and waist- coat , and with the agility of a harlequin sprung 6 THEATRES.
... flames , surrounded by a concourse of people eager to look on , but loth to assist . A cry of distress was heard from within , he instantly threw off his coat and waist- coat , and with the agility of a harlequin sprung 6 THEATRES.
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Palavras e frases frequentes
acted actor actress admirable Andrew Cherry appeared applause audience Baron Barry Beggar's Opera Ben Jonson Cæsar called celebrated character comedian comedy Covent Garden Theatre Crebillon curtain death Drama dressed Drury Lane Theatre Duke entertainment eyes favourite Foote France French Garrick Gens d'armes gentlemen give grace guineas Harlequin heart Hillyard Hogarth honour humour imitated Joe Grimaldi John Kemble Jonson Julius Cæsar Kean King Lady laugh Lekain London LOPE DE RUEDA Lord MADEMOISELLE MARS Magistrates Majesty manager manner Molière nature never night obliged Opera paint passion performed person personage piece play players poet possessed pounds present Queen racters received replied returned scene sensibility sent servant Shakspeare Shakspeare's shew Shuter Siddons sion soul SPRANGER BARRY stage talents Talma tavern tears theatrical thee thou tion took tragedian tragedy tragic voice words
Passagens conhecidas
Página xxii - ... twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve; the censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
Página xxii - ... accent of christians, nor the gait of christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted, and bellowed, that I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Página 246 - This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride At length broke under me; and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Página xxi - Speak the speech, I pray you, as 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.
Página xxii - 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'er-step not the modesty of nature : for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first, and now, was, and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time, his form and pressure.
Página 102 - Weep with me, all you that read This little story : And know, for whom a tear you shed Death's self is sorry. 'Twas a child that so did thrive In grace and feature, As heaven and nature seemed to strive Which owned the creature.
Página 102 - Parcae thought him one, He played so truly. So by error to his fate They all consented; But viewing him since (alas, too late) They have repented. And have sought (to give new birth) In baths to steep him; But, being so much too good for earth, Heaven vows to keep him.
Página 187 - Be absolute for death; either death, or life, Shall thereby be the sweeter. Reason thus with life,— If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep...
Página 25 - He began on it ; and" when first he mentioned it to Swift, the doctor did not much like the project. As he carried it on, he showed what he wrote to both of us, and we now and then gave a correction, or a word or two of advice ; but it was wholly of his own writing.
Página xxi - O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who, for the most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb-shows and noise: I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant; it out-herods Herod: pray you, avoid it.