Some Account of the English Stage: From the Restoration in 1660 to 1830, المجلد 8H.E. Carrington, 1882 |
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... Queen Mrs. Litchfield , 1st Never acted , a Hint to Husbands . Lord Transit = C. Kemble : Sir Charles Le Brun = H. Johnston George Trevor ( nephew to Fairford ) = Brunton : Fairford ( father to Lady Transit ) Fawcett Heartright ...
... Queen Mrs. Litchfield , 1st Never acted , a Hint to Husbands . Lord Transit = C. Kemble : Sir Charles Le Brun = H. Johnston George Trevor ( nephew to Fairford ) = Brunton : Fairford ( father to Lady Transit ) Fawcett Heartright ...
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... Queen , which were incurable , the King had resolved never to come near her more- ( Burnet probably ) — tho ' the King's anxiety for a divorce was doubtless increased by his love for Anne Bullen , yet his scruples of conscience were not ...
... Queen , which were incurable , the King had resolved never to come near her more- ( Burnet probably ) — tho ' the King's anxiety for a divorce was doubtless increased by his love for Anne Bullen , yet his scruples of conscience were not ...
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... Queen and the two Car- dinals - this Kemble has , with much discredit to him . self , omitted - it was retained at C. G. in 1773- Davies in 1784 , says , it is omitted as tedious and un- necessary - Cavendish gives a circumstantial ...
... Queen and the two Car- dinals - this Kemble has , with much discredit to him . self , omitted - it was retained at C. G. in 1773- Davies in 1784 , says , it is omitted as tedious and un- necessary - Cavendish gives a circumstantial ...
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... Queen - Cavendish says , that the Queen at her trial prepared to leave the Court , leaning upon the arm of Mr. Griffith her General Receiver - when she was called back 66 Madam , " quoth Griffith , " Ye be called again . " " On , on ...
... Queen - Cavendish says , that the Queen at her trial prepared to leave the Court , leaning upon the arm of Mr. Griffith her General Receiver - when she was called back 66 Madam , " quoth Griffith , " Ye be called again . " " On , on ...
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... Queen's Gentleman Usher , and give her a cushion to kneel on - and now he offends her , by not showing her that respect , of which such a man as Sir Henry Guildford could not be ignorant that she was extremely tenacious - she had been ...
... Queen's Gentleman Usher , and give her a cushion to kneel on - and now he offends her , by not showing her that respect , of which such a man as Sir Henry Guildford could not be ignorant that she was extremely tenacious - she had been ...
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الصفحة 229 - The truth is that the spectators are always in their senses and know from the first act to the last that the stage is only a stage and that the players are only players.
الصفحة 13 - Well, well, Master Kingston," quoth he, "I see the matter against me how it is framed; but if I had served God as diligently as I have done the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs.
الصفحة 229 - The necessity of observing the unities of time and place arises from the supposed necessity of making the drama credible. The critics hold it impossible, that an action of months or years can be possibly believed to pass in three hours ; or that the spectator can suppose himself to sit in the...
الصفحة 578 - I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, "Would he had blotted a thousand," which they thought a malevolent speech.
الصفحة 229 - He that without diminution of any other excellence shall preserve all the unities unbroken, deserves the like applause with the architect who shall display all the orders of architecture in a citadel without any deduction from its strength. But the principal beauty of a citadel is to exclude the enemy, and the greatest graces of a play are to copy nature and instruct life.
الصفحة 397 - I have survived all true national taste, and lived to see buffoonery, spectacle, and puerility so effectually triumph, that now to be repulsed from the stage is to be recommended to the closet, and to be applauded by the theatre is little else than a passport to the puppet-show.
الصفحة 571 - The New Inn: or, the Light Heart, a Comedy. As it was never Acted, but most negligently Played by some, the KING'S SERVANTS; and more squeamishly beheld and censur'd by others, the KING'S SUBJECTS, 1629.
الصفحة 265 - I danced forward ; but it struck home, and here, and in an instant. Be such mere women, who with shrieks and outcries can vow a present end to all their sorrows: yet live to court new pleasures, and outlive them. They are the silent griefs which cut the heartstrings; let me die smiling.
الصفحة 229 - Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination ; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours. In contemplation we easily contract the time of real actions, and therefore willingly permit it to be contracted when we only see their imitation.
الصفحة 12 - From his cradle, He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one ; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading : Lofty and sour to them that loved him not ; But to those men that sought him, sweet as summer.