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... play - her being picked out of the streets at Fownes Court , her playing Macheath as an infant prodigy in Madame Violante's Lilliputian Company , at the booth off Dame - street , and her bewitching the gentlemen of Dublin with her ...
... play - her being picked out of the streets at Fownes Court , her playing Macheath as an infant prodigy in Madame Violante's Lilliputian Company , at the booth off Dame - street , and her bewitching the gentlemen of Dublin with her ...
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... play nine years later was opened with " King Henry the Fourth . " It was conducted with great spirit and propriety ... playing themselves . This produced fresh combinations and fresh com- panies . A new house of entertainment was opened ...
... play nine years later was opened with " King Henry the Fourth . " It was conducted with great spirit and propriety ... playing themselves . This produced fresh combinations and fresh com- panies . A new house of entertainment was opened ...
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... player . By one section in this Act , any one without a settle- ment in the parish , or with no patent , was to be dealt ... play gratis . This was a mere illusory pretence ; but the very stringency and intolerance of the law was his ...
... player . By one section in this Act , any one without a settle- ment in the parish , or with no patent , was to be dealt ... play gratis . This was a mere illusory pretence ; but the very stringency and intolerance of the law was his ...
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... play his first play . Among these was Macklin , with whom had been debated the choice of a play for the début , and who had approved of the young player's motive for the selection of Richard - namely , its suiting his figure so much ...
... play his first play . Among these was Macklin , with whom had been debated the choice of a play for the début , and who had approved of the young player's motive for the selection of Richard - namely , its suiting his figure so much ...
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... play over . Johnson , perhaps not in the best of humours , and never very tolerant of his friend's success , began to find fault with his emphasis in various lines , and then said , " The players , sir , have got a kind of rant with ...
... play over . Johnson , perhaps not in the best of humours , and never very tolerant of his friend's success , began to find fault with his emphasis in various lines , and then said , " The players , sir , have got a kind of rant with ...
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Page 440 - As an actor, confess'd without rival to shine; As a wit, if not first, in the very first line: Yet, with talents like these, and an excellent heart, The man had his failings, a dupe to his art. Like an ill-judging beauty, his colours he spread, And beplaster'd with rouge his own natural red. On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting; Twas only that when he was off he was acting.
Page 449 - Biron they call him; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest ; Which his fair tongue (conceit's expositor,) Delivers in such apt and gracious words, That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished ; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.
Page 301 - Farewell, great painter of mankind ! Who reach'd the noblest point of art, Whose pictured morals charm the mind, And through the eye correct the heart. If Genius fire thee, reader, stay, If nature touch thee, drop a tear, If neither move thee — turn away — For Hogarth's honour'd dust lies here.
Page 282 - He the best player !' cries Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer ; ' Why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure if I had seen a ghost, I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did.
Page 411 - Turn to learning and gaming, religion and raking. With the love of a wench, let his writings be chaste ; Tip his tongue with strange matter, his pen with fine taste ; That the rake and the poet o'er all may prevail, Set fire to the head, and set fire to the tail.
Page 282 - And if it was really a ghost, it could do one no harm at such a distance, and in so much company ; and yet if I was frightened, I am not the only person.
Page 40 - Tavern, near the Theatre. NB Between the Two Parts of the Concert will be presented an Historical Play, called the LIFE AND DEATH OF King Richard the Third.
Page 464 - TAKING a turn the other day in the Abbey, I was struck with the affected attitude of a figure, which I do not remember to have seen before, and which upon examination proved to be a whole-length of the celebrated Mr. Garrick. Though I would not go so far with some good catholics abroad as to shut players altogether out of consecrated ground, yet I own I was not a little...
Page 440 - But let us be candid, and speak out our mind, If dunces applauded, he paid them in kind. Ye Kenricks, ye...
Page 440 - Till, his relish grown callous, almost to disease, Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please. But let us be candid, and speak out our mind, If dunces applauded, he paid them in kind.