Reminiscences of Henry Angelo: With Memoirs of His Late Father and Friends, Including Numerous Original Anecdotes and Curious Traits of the Most Celebrated Characters that Have Flourished During the Past Eighty Years, Volume 2H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1830 - England |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
acquaintance afterwards amusement Angelo appearance arrived attended Bannister better breakfast called Captain carriage character Charles Bannister Charles Incledon coach crowded curiosity début dine dinner Doctor door dressed Duke Duke of Sussex English Eton Eton College excellent father favourite fencer fencing French gave gentleman going heard HENRY ANGELO honour horses hour humour Incledon invited Italian John Bannister John Bull journey known ladies Lady Hamilton late laugh leave Leghorn look Lord Barrymore Lord Byron lordship master miles Monsieur morning never night o'clock obliged Paris party passed performance play pleased present racter received recollect resided scene scholars seated seen Sheridan shew side song soon speaking stage superior supper table d'hôte taken theatre Theodore Hook tion told Tom Sheridan took town travelling waited walking Wargrave whilst wine young
Popular passages
Page 143 - Don't press, slow back, and keep your eye on the ball," he is, for practical purposes, denationalised. His other education proceeded on the pleasantest lines. Was he interested in any conceivable thing in heaven above, or the earth beneath, or the waters under the earth?
Page 173 - There is no class of society whom so many persons regard with affection as actors. We greet them on the stage ; we like to meet them in the streets ; they almost always recall to us pleasant associations ; and we feel our gratitude excited, without the uneasiness of a sense of obligation.
Page 201 - The meat being removed, in came the long wished for pudding. The doctor looked joyous, fell eagerly to, and in a few minutes nearly finished all the pudding. The table was cleared, and Boswell said — " ' Doctor, while I was eating the mutton you seemed frequently inclined to laugh ; pray, tell me, what tickled your fancy ?' " The doctor then literally told him all that had passed at the kitchen fire, about the boy and the basting.
Page 199 - this inn was formerly kept by Andrew Macgregor, a relation of mine, and these hardbottomed chairs (in which we are now sitting) were, years ago, filled by the great tourists Dr.
Page 326 - Tale, where he astonished the audience, not merely by the beautiful colouring and designs, far superior to what they had been accustomed to, but by a sudden transition in a forest scene, where the foliage varies from green to blood colour. This contrivance was entirely new; and the effect was produced by placing different coloured silks in the flies or side scenes, which turned on a pivot, and with lights behind, which so illumined the stage as to give the effect of enchantment.
Page 152 - At the time he resided in a front room on the second floor in Holborn, on the same side of the way near to Red Lion Square, when the mob passing by the house, and Grimaldi being a foreigner, they thought he must be a papist. On hearing he lived there, they all stopped, and there was a general shouting : a cry of "No Popery...
Page 174 - The very gaiety and popularity, however, which surround the life of a favourite performer, make the retiring from it a very serious business. It glances a mortifying reflection on the shortness of human life, and the vanity of human pleasures. Something reminds us that 'all the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players'.
Page 297 - When she came off at the quick change of dress, she again complained of being ill, but got accoutred, and returned to finish the part, and pronounced in the epilogue speech,—' If it be true that good wine needs no bush, it is as true that a good play needs no epilogue,' &c., &c. But when she arrived at' If I were among you, I would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleased me...
Page 200 - Boswell ushered the doctor in the house, and left him to prepare for this delicious treat. Johnson feeling his coat rather damp, from the mist of the mountains, went into the kitchen, and threw his upper garment on a chair before the fire : he sat on the hob, near a little boy who was very busy attending the meat. Johnson occasionally peeped from behind his coat, while the boy kept basting the mutton. Johnson did not like the appearance of his head; when he shifted the basting ladle from one hand,...