Memoirs of the Life of John Philip Kemble, Esq: Including a History of the Stage, from the Time of Garrick to the Present Period, Volume 1 |
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... certainly the Sir Oliver Surface of the School for Scandal , who , in the disguise of old Stanley , sounds the hearts of his two nephews , with the same ability to reward and punish . If , after all , it cannot be credited , that the ...
... certainly the Sir Oliver Surface of the School for Scandal , who , in the disguise of old Stanley , sounds the hearts of his two nephews , with the same ability to reward and punish . If , after all , it cannot be credited , that the ...
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... certainly to weaken it . The less notice the actor excites off the stage , the better for himself and the public . 66 The dramatic soil is by no means the natural seed - plot of the virtues ; on the contrary , I feel that the actor is ...
... certainly to weaken it . The less notice the actor excites off the stage , the better for himself and the public . 66 The dramatic soil is by no means the natural seed - plot of the virtues ; on the contrary , I feel that the actor is ...
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... certainly not surprised , yet I can safely say that I never was more struck than by the sight of his venerable parents . His father had the same style of head as his own , except that the features were more delicately finished , and ...
... certainly not surprised , yet I can safely say that I never was more struck than by the sight of his venerable parents . His father had the same style of head as his own , except that the features were more delicately finished , and ...
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... certainly put them , with much tranquillity , into the fire , a fate which , since then , invariably attended any straggling copy which he begged from a friend , and I believe even bought at any sale which contained it . In the year ...
... certainly put them , with much tranquillity , into the fire , a fate which , since then , invariably attended any straggling copy which he begged from a friend , and I believe even bought at any sale which contained it . In the year ...
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... certainly was much admired ; his second performance , on the following night , was better attended than the first , and Daly seemed to feel the import- ance of his acquisition . But unluckily Daly made a point of Kemble's acting Sir ...
... certainly was much admired ; his second performance , on the following night , was better attended than the first , and Daly seemed to feel the import- ance of his acquisition . But unluckily Daly made a point of Kemble's acting Sir ...
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Page 370 - twere with a defeated joy, With one auspicious and one dropping eye, With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage, In equal scale weighing delight and dole...
Page 58 - I have of late— but wherefore I know not— lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Page 201 - Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?
Page 38 - Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound.
Page 555 - A play read affects the mind like a play acted. It is therefore evident that the action is not supposed to be real; and it follows that between the acts a longer or shorter time may be allowed to pass, and that no more account of space or duration is to be taken by the auditor of a drama...
Page 89 - We are alarmed into reflection ; our minds (as it has long since been observed) are purified by terror and pity; our weak unthinking pride is humbled, under the dispensations of a mysterious wisdom. Some tears might be drawn from me, if such a spectacle were exhibited on the stage. I should be truly ashamed of finding in myself that superficial, theatric sense of painted distress, whilst I could exult over it in real life.
Page 65 - Angels and ministers of grace defend us! Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damn'd, Bring with thee airs from heaven, or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked, or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee...
Page 38 - ... an objection : sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense: sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a mimical look or gesture passeth for it.
Page 38 - ... from a lucky hitting upon what is strange ; sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose. Often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable, and inexplicable ; being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy, and windings of language.
Page 354 - Thou clapp'st thy rattling fingers to thy sides. And when this solemn mockery is o'er, "With icy hand thou tak'st him by the feet, And upward, so, till thou dost reach the heart, And wrap him in the cloak of 'lasting night.