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acquainted actor admiration amongst appearance applause attention audience Baronet Bartholomew Fair beautiful better blue-eyed nymph Brilliant Shore celebrated character comic country manager Covent Garden Theatre daughter dear delight door Drawn & Engraved dress elegant endeavoured engagement exclaimed eyes fair ELIZA fame father favourite feelings fellow flattered fond fortune gentleman George Frederick Cooke Hamlet happy Haymarket Theatre heart hero honour Horatio Quill hour John Kemble JOHN PHILIP KEMBLE Kemble Knipe ladies Lane laugh likewise London look Macbeth mansion MARIA master metropolis MILDMAY mind Miss mistress never night numerous obtain once Othello Oxberry PEREGRINE PROTEUS PEREGRINE'S performers person pieces play player possessed prison procure profession rehearsal replied respecting retired retreat Romeo salary scene Screw servants Shakspeare shillings SIR HENRY GAYBOY situation smile soon stage success talents Teazer Theatres Royal theatrical THEATRICAL PROPERTY Thespis thing thought town Whitecross young BULLION
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Page 32 - Let me play the Fool : With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come ; And let my liver rather heat with wine, Than my heart cool with mortifying groans. Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster ? Sleep when he wakes?
Page 32 - I love thee, and it is my love that speaks,— There are a sort of men, whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond; And do a wilful stillness entertain, With purpose to be dress'd in an opinion Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit; As who should say, ' I am Sir Oracle, And, when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!
Page 93 - Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye Than twenty of their swords : look thou but sweet, And I am proof against their enmity.
Page xvii - Set you down this ; And say besides, that in Aleppo once, Where a malignant and a turban'd Turk Beat a Venetian and traduced the state, I took by the throat the circumcised dog, And smote him, thus.
Page 36 - My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, And makes as healthful music : it is not madness That I have utter'd : bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word ; which madness Would gambol from.
Page 55 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown: The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword, The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observ'd of all observers, quite, quite down.
Page 154 - Her hair, I said, was auburn ; but her eyes Were black as death, their lashes the same hue, Of downcast length, in whose silk shadow lies Deepest attraction ; for when to the view Forth from its raven fringe the full glance flies, Ne'er with such force the swiftest arrow flew : 'Tis as the snake late coil'd, who pours his length, And hurls at once his venom and his strength.
Page 248 - Pity it is that the momentary beauties flowing from an harmonious elocution cannot, like those of poetry, be their own record; that the animated graces of the player can live no longer than the instant breath and motion that presents them, or at best can but faintly glimmer through the memory or imperfect attestation of a few surviving spectators...
Page 104 - My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.
Page xvii - Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice, In fair round belly with good capon...