Edinburgh Dramatic Review, Volumes 3-5James L. Huie., 1825 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
11 Register Street 53 South Bridge actor admirably Andrews Square appearance applause audience Battle of Waterloo benefit CALEDONIAN THEATRE character Clari comic Corner of Infirmary daily by EDWARD Denham Der Freischutz Ditto Dramatic Review Edinburgh Editor EDWARD WEST excellent Farce feeling glass Half-price Hanover Street Harrold Harry Stanley Heart of Mid-Lothian HILL humour immediately attended Infirmary Street J. H. Mason JAMES COLSTON Jones Kean Lady last night Leith Liston Lynch M'Gregor Mackay Mackay's MATHEWS Melo-Drama Miss Dyer Miss Eyre Miss Foote Miss Mason Miss Murray Miss Noel Miss Rae Miss Stephens Miss Villars modestly discover Montimar Murray's Nicol NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS Paul Pry Post Paid Price 1d Price One Penny Pritchard PUBLISHED daily reflection remarks Renaud Rob Roy Ryder scene SHAKESPEARE Siddons sing SONG Stanley Stanley's style sung talent THEATRE-ROYAL THEATRICAL INTELLIGENCE thing Thorne Watt whole to conclude WILLIAM HUNTER
Popular passages
Page 639 - Bru. Into what dangers would you lead me, Cassius, That you would have me seek into myself For that which is not in me ? Cas. Therefore, good Brutus, be prepared to hear : And since you know you cannot see yourself So well as by reflection, I, your glass, Will modestly discover to yourself That of yourself which you yet know not of.
Page 437 - To remark the folly of the fiction, the absurdity of the conduct, the confusion of the names and manners of different times, and the impossibility of the events in any system of life, were to waste criticism upon unresisting imbecility, upon faults too evident for detection, and too gross for aggravation.
Page 933 - With oppressed feelings, heart-rending to my friends, and triumphant to my enemies, I make an appeal to that country famed for hospitality to the stranger, and mercy to the conquered. Allow me to say...
Page 392 - HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY From the Collection of the Writings of the Poet JOHN GAY 1685-1732 Made by ERNEST LEWIS GAY of the Class...
Page 933 - That I have committed an error, appears too evident from the alldecisive voice of the public; but surely it is but justice to the delinquent, (whatever may be his enormities,) to be allowed to make reparation where the offences were committed.
Page 933 - I visit this country now, under different feelings and auspices than on a former occasion. Then I was an ambitious man, and the proud representative of Shakspeare's heroes. The spark of ambition is extinct ; and I merely ask a shelter in which to close my professional and mortal career. I give the weapon into the hands of my enemies; if they are brave, they will not turn it against the defenceless.
Page 933 - I disclaim all intention of offering any thing in the shape of disrespect towards the inhabitants of New York ; they received me from the first with an enthusiasm, grateful in those hours to my pride, in the present to my memory. I cannot recall to my mind any act or thought, that did not prompt me to an unfeigned acknowledgment of their favors as a public, and profound admiration of the private worth of those circles in which I had the honor to move. That I have committed an error...
Page 933 - I disdain all intention of offering anything in the shape of disrespect towards the inhabitants of New York. They received me from the first with an enthusiasm, grateful, in those hours, to my pride - in the present, to my memory.
Page 527 - Pamela, this is one of those delusions which frequently destroy the proper subordination of society. The village beauty, whose simplicity and innocence are her native charms, smitten with the reveries of rank. and splendour, becomes affected and retired, disdaining her situation and every one about her.
Page 559 - great flow of spirits, hurries him into all the " follies of the town, but there is not the " least shadow of wickedness or dishonour in " any of his actions ; he avoids both with " the same care that he would a precipice. " His natural good qualities obtain for him on " the stage the same indulgence that attends " him in the world. We are blind to his " foibles, entertained by his adventures, and " wish to see the rogue reclaimed. " THE importation of fopperies from France " we have laughed at...