Cumberland's British Theatre: With Remarks, Biographical and Critical : Printed from the Acting Copies, as Performed at the Theatres-royal, London, Volume 13John Cumberland, 1826 |
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... scene we become acquainted with the secret of Colonel Feignwell's intended disguises , and anticipate their success ; its main defect , therefore , is in preparing the Audience for what is to come , and leaving too little opportunity ...
... scene we become acquainted with the secret of Colonel Feignwell's intended disguises , and anticipate their success ; its main defect , therefore , is in preparing the Audience for what is to come , and leaving too little opportunity ...
Página iv
... scene . The Lady , the object of so much solicitude , has little room for display the only scene in which she appears to parti- cular advantage , is that of her pretended conversion ; which is conceived and executed with inimitable ...
... scene . The Lady , the object of so much solicitude , has little room for display the only scene in which she appears to parti- cular advantage , is that of her pretended conversion ; which is conceived and executed with inimitable ...
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... pay . As for our play , ' tis English humour all ; Then will you let our manufacture fall ? Would you the honour of our nation raise , Keep English credit up , and English plays . A BOLD STROKE FOR A WIFE . ACT I. SCENE X PROLOGUE .
... pay . As for our play , ' tis English humour all ; Then will you let our manufacture fall ? Would you the honour of our nation raise , Keep English credit up , and English plays . A BOLD STROKE FOR A WIFE . ACT I. SCENE X PROLOGUE .
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... dark and dang'rous way , Without a landmark or one friendly star , And he that runs the risk , deserves the fair [ Exeunt , L. D. SCENE II . - An Apartment in Prim's House Enter 16 [ ACT I. A BOLD STROKE FOR A WIFE .
... dark and dang'rous way , Without a landmark or one friendly star , And he that runs the risk , deserves the fair [ Exeunt , L. D. SCENE II . - An Apartment in Prim's House Enter 16 [ ACT I. A BOLD STROKE FOR A WIFE .
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... SCENE II . - An Apartment in Prim's House Enter Miss LOVELY and her maid BETTY , R. Betty . ( R. C. ) Bless me , madam ! why do you fret and teaze yourself so ? This is giving thein the advantage , with a witness to it . Miss L. ( c ) ...
... SCENE II . - An Apartment in Prim's House Enter Miss LOVELY and her maid BETTY , R. Betty . ( R. C. ) Bless me , madam ! why do you fret and teaze yourself so ? This is giving thein the advantage , with a witness to it . Miss L. ( c ) ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
Amanda Caliph character colonel Count Covent Garden Croaker Crosses daughter dear devil Doctor Bolus door dress Duke Enter Exeunt Exit father Fatma Feignwell fellow fortune Free Freeman gentleman girl give Guyenne happy hear heart heaven Honeywood honour hope Hostess husband Jarvis JOHN CUMBERLAND Juliana King Kitty lady Lampedo laugh Leontine letter look lord LUDGATE HILL madam marry master minuet Miss L Miss Richland Moll Mopsa Mynheer never night Nippe Obad Oberon Olivia pardon Peggy Periwinkle Phil Philip Poggylina Pray Prim Queen Rash Rent Sack Sackbut Sadak Scara Scaramoucho SCENE servant Sherasmin Sir H Sir Huon Soph Sophia soul spirit sure tell Theatre Royal thee there's thing thou Trade Tradelove Trumore Tunis wife woman Zounds
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Página 7 - A blank, my lord. She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i...
Página 6 - But peace to his spirit, wherever it flies To act as an angel and mix with the skies ! Those poets who owe their best fame to his skill Shall still be his flatterers, go where he will, Old...
Página 48 - Or pore over you through a microscope, to see how your blood circulates from the crown of your head to the sole of your foot...
Página 18 - Encompassed in an angel's frame, An angel's virtues lay ; Too soon did heaven assert the claim, And call its own away. My Anna's worth, my Anna's charms, Must never more return ! What now shall fill these widow'd arms ? Ah, me ! my Anna's urn !" It is some confirmation of this conjecture, that General Burgoyne contracted no second marriage.
Página 7 - The playful humour ; he could now endure (Himself grown sober in the vale of tears) And feel a parent's presence no restraint. But not to understand a treasure's worth Till time has stolen away the slighted good, Is cause of half the poverty we feel, And makes the world the wilderness it is.
Página 20 - Who, Nancy Lovely? I am a piece of a guardian to that lady : you must know, her father, I thank him, joined me with three of the most preposterous old fellows — that, upon...
Página 23 - Tis well ! For the first fortnight, ruder than March winds, She'll blow a hurricane. The next, perhaps, Like April, she may wear a changeful face Of storm and sunshine : — and, when that is past, She will break glorious as unclouded May ; And where the thorns grew bare, the spreading blossoms Meet with no lagging frost to kill their sweetness. — Whilst others, for a month's delirious joy, Buy a dull age of penance ; we, more wisely, Taste first the wholesome bitter of the cup, That...
Página 10 - TO-NIGHT we come upon a bold design, To try to please without one borrow'd line ; Our plot is new and regularly clear, And not one single tittle from Moliere. O'er buried poets we with caution tread, And parish sextons leave to rob the dead.
Página 27 - O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name; Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, And I'll no longer be a Capulet.
Página 43 - I might have travelled over all the known parts of the globe, and made my own closet rival the Vatican at Rome — Odso, I have a good mind to begin my travels now — let me...