Angelo's Pic Nic, Or, Table Talk: Including Numerous Recollections of Public Characters, who Have Figured in Some Part Or Another of the Stage of Life for the Last Fifty Years : Forming an Endless Variety of Talent, Amusement, and Interest, Calculated to Please Every Person Fond of Biographical Sketches and AnecdotesJ. Ebers, 1834 - 400 páginas |
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Angelo's Pic Nic, Or, Table Talk: Including Numerous Recollections of Public ... Henry Angelo Visualização integral - 1834 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
acquaintance æther amused anecdote Angelo answered Puck appearance arms attended Bannister beautiful Brighton called carriage characters CHARLES MACKLIN cheek coach Colman dear diddle dum dine dinner dress Duke excellent eyes fairy father favourite fencers fencing master fishing foil French Garrick gentleman George George Colman gobble graceful head HENRY ANGELO honour HORACE SMITH horse hour humour Ione Jack Bannister JOHN EBERS Kemble lady landlord late laughing leave lips London look Lord Lord Byron Lord Moira Macklin majesty Miss morning mortals never night o'clock Oberon party passed Père la Chaise play pleased Prince Psychus Puck received recollection replied Royal rumply scholars servant sing song soon spirit star Street supper Theatre THEODORE HOOK tion Tol de rol told took town voice W. C. MACREADY Wargrave whilst wine young
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Página 22 - Sir, after having fixed my auditors' attention to this part, then I shall ask, but how does Garrick act this? Why, Sir, sensible that the family are at enmity with him and his house, he comes creeping in upon his toes, whispering his love, and looking about him just like a thief in the night.
Página 29 - I am very glad you have taken a fencing-master: that exercise will give you some manly, firm, and graceful attitudes: open your chest, place your head upright, and plant you well upon your legs. As to the use of the sword, it is well to know it: but remember, my dearest nephew, it is a science of defence, and that a sword can never be employed by the hand of a man of virtue, in any other cause. As to the carriage of your...
Página 59 - a tea-garden, situated, after passing a wooden bridge on the left, previous to entering the long avenue, the coach-way to where Ranelagh once stood.' This place was much frequented from its novelty, being an inducement to allure the curious by its amusing deceptions, particularly on their first appearance there. Here was a large garden, in different parts of which were recesses ; and treading on a spring, taking you by surprise, up started different figures, some ugly enough to frighten you ; like...
Página 150 - Twas loaded with powder and bullet, He trudged off to Camberwell Grove, But wanted the courage to pull it.
Página 21 - Barry comes into it, sir, as a great lord, swaggering about his love and talking so loud that, if we don't suppose the servants of the Capulet family almost dead with sleep, they must have come out and tossed him in a blanket. Well, sir, after having fixed my auditors...
Página 163 - NELSON. OFT had Britannia sought, midst dire alarms, Divine protection for her sons in arms : Generous and brave, tho' not from vices free, Britons from heaven receiv'da mix'd decree ; To crown their merits, but to check their pride, God gave them Victory, but NELSON died.
Página viii - His talents in music unfolded themselves rapidly, but the art in which he surpassed all his contemporaries and predecessors was fencing. No professor or amateur ever showed so much accuracy, such strength, such length of lunge, and such quickness. His attacks were a perpetual series of hits; his parade was so close that it was in vain to attempt to touch him ; in short, he was all nerve.
Página 210 - Notwithstanding however, these objections, fencing is considered to be so necessary a qualification in the breeding of a gentleman, and has so many advantages in regard to health, and personal appearance, that every gentleman of rank and property, ought 10 acquire this art —Lodie's Treatise on Education, § 109.