Literary and Graphical Illustrations of Shakspeare, and the British Drama: Comprising an Historical View of the Origin and Improvement of the English Stage, and a Series of Critical and Descriptive Notices of Upwards of One Hundred of the Most Celebrated Tragedies, Comedies, Operas, and Farces. Embellished with More Than Two Hundred Engravings on WoodMaurice and Company, and pub. by Hurst, Chance and E. Wilson, 1831 - 204 من الصفحات |
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... Covent Garden , 1747 ... 116 114 58. Miss in her Teens 59. The Suspicious Husband .. 60. The Gamester 61 . Barbarossa 62. The Apprentice 63. Douglas 64. Isabella .. .. .. Edward Moore Dr. John Brown Dr. Benjamin Hoadly Covent Garden ...
... Covent Garden , 1747 ... 116 114 58. Miss in her Teens 59. The Suspicious Husband .. 60. The Gamester 61 . Barbarossa 62. The Apprentice 63. Douglas 64. Isabella .. .. .. Edward Moore Dr. John Brown Dr. Benjamin Hoadly Covent Garden ...
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... Covent Garden , 1762 .. .. .. .. Covent Garden , 1762 Haymarket , Drury Lane , 1763 Covent Garden , 1764 Drury Lane , 1766 Drury Lane , 1763 1766 .. Isaac Bickerstaffe .. Covent Garden , 1768 .. Isaac Bickerstaffe .. Drury Lane , 1768 ...
... Covent Garden , 1762 .. .. .. .. Covent Garden , 1762 Haymarket , Drury Lane , 1763 Covent Garden , 1764 Drury Lane , 1766 Drury Lane , 1763 1766 .. Isaac Bickerstaffe .. Covent Garden , 1768 .. Isaac Bickerstaffe .. Drury Lane , 1768 ...
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... Gardens , Fleet - Street . This was abandoned upon the opening of the grand Opera - House in the Haymarket , April 9th ... Covent Garden Theatre was originally erected in 1733 , and occu- pied by John Rich's company from Lincoln's Inn ...
... Gardens , Fleet - Street . This was abandoned upon the opening of the grand Opera - House in the Haymarket , April 9th ... Covent Garden Theatre was originally erected in 1733 , and occu- pied by John Rich's company from Lincoln's Inn ...
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... Gardens ' Theatre , with the additional characters of Dorinda and Hippolyto ; a woman who had never seen a man , a man ... Covent - Garden on December 8th , 1806 . Prospero . The Tempest . 333333 لالية Thou art inclin'd 2 Supposed Dates ...
... Gardens ' Theatre , with the additional characters of Dorinda and Hippolyto ; a woman who had never seen a man , a man ... Covent - Garden on December 8th , 1806 . Prospero . The Tempest . 333333 لالية Thou art inclin'd 2 Supposed Dates ...
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... Covent - Garden , April 21st , 1808 ; and on November 29th , 1821 , was again revived with great splendour of scenery , and an introduced Masque and Songs , selected from Shakspeare's Poems and Plays . The Two Gentlemen of Verona ...
... Covent - Garden , April 21st , 1808 ; and on November 29th , 1821 , was again revived with great splendour of scenery , and an introduced Masque and Songs , selected from Shakspeare's Poems and Plays . The Two Gentlemen of Verona ...
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الصفحة 33 - All murder'd : for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
الصفحة 63 - Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand ? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight ? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain ? I see thee yet, in form as palpable As this which now I draw.
الصفحة 45 - O God ! methinks it were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain : To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point...
الصفحة 21 - Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven ; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot ; And thereby hangs a tale.
الصفحة 69 - I will in Cassio's lodging lose this napkin, And let him find it. Trifles light as air, Are, to the jealous, confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ.
الصفحة 31 - For heaven's sake, Hubert, let me not be bound ! Nay, hear me, Hubert ! — drive these men away, And I will sit as quiet as a lamb ; I will not stir, nor wince, nor speak a word, Nor look upon the iron angerly :5 Thrust but these men away, and I'll forgive you, Whatever torment you do put me to.
الصفحة 154 - Be to her virtues very kind ; Be to her faults a little blind ; Let all her ways be unconfin'd ; And clap your padlock — on her mind.
الصفحة 100 - Dr. Swift had been observing once to Mr. Gay, what an odd pretty sort of a thing a Newgate Pastoral might make. Gay was inclined to try at such a thing for some time; but afterwards thought it would be better to write a comedy on the same plan. This was what gave rise to The Beggar's Opera.
الصفحة 64 - The younger sort take much delight in Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis ; but his Lucrece, and his tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmarke, have it in them to please the wiser sort, 1598.
الصفحة 40 - How would it have joyed brave Talbot (the terror of the French) to think that after he had lain two hundred years in his tomb, he should triumph again on the stage, and have his bones new embalmed with the tears of ten thousand spectators at least (at several times) who in the tragedian that represents his person, imagine they behold him fresh bleeding...