An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber: Comedian, and Late Patentee of the Theatre-Royal. With an Historical View of the Stage During His Own TimeR. Dodsley, 1750 - 555 من الصفحات |
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... Head thou'd confine to any regu- lar Method : ( For I fhall make no fcruple of leaving my History , when I think a Digreffion may make it lighter , for my Reader's Digefti- on . ) This Work , I fay , fhall not only contain the various ...
... Head thou'd confine to any regu- lar Method : ( For I fhall make no fcruple of leaving my History , when I think a Digreffion may make it lighter , for my Reader's Digefti- on . ) This Work , I fay , fhall not only contain the various ...
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... Head taller than my- felf , in fome Wrangle at Play had infulted me ; upon which I was fool - hardy enough to give him a Box on the Ear ; the Blow was foon re- turn'd with another , that brought me under him , and at his Mercy . Another ...
... Head taller than my- felf , in fome Wrangle at Play had infulted me ; upon which I was fool - hardy enough to give him a Box on the Ear ; the Blow was foon re- turn'd with another , that brought me under him , and at his Mercy . Another ...
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... Head , or wants a Capacity to make that Distinction , it may have the fame Effect as the Intention of the groffeft Injury : And in reality , if you know his Parts are too flow to return it in kind , it is a vain and idle Inhumanity ...
... Head , or wants a Capacity to make that Distinction , it may have the fame Effect as the Intention of the groffeft Injury : And in reality , if you know his Parts are too flow to return it in kind , it is a vain and idle Inhumanity ...
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... Head , it is no eafy matter to be more merry upon him , than he will be up- on himself . Thus while he fets that Infirmi- ty in a pleafant Light , he so disarms your Pre- judice , that if he has it not , you can't find in your Heart to ...
... Head , it is no eafy matter to be more merry upon him , than he will be up- on himself . Thus while he fets that Infirmi- ty in a pleafant Light , he so disarms your Pre- judice , that if he has it not , you can't find in your Heart to ...
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... Head of the Form : A Preferment dearly bought ! Much happier had I been to have funk my Performance in the general Modefty of declining it . A most uncomfortable Life I led among them , for many a Day after ! I was fo jeer'd , laugh'd ...
... Head of the Form : A Preferment dearly bought ! Much happier had I been to have funk my Performance in the general Modefty of declining it . A most uncomfortable Life I led among them , for many a Day after ! I was fo jeer'd , laugh'd ...
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الصفحة 499 - Now ye shall have three ladies walk to gather flowers, and then we must believe the stage to be a garden. By and by we hear news of shipwreck in the same place, and then we are to blame if we accept it not for a rock. Upon the back of that comes out a hideous monster with fire and smoke, and then the miserable beholders are bound to take it for a cave. While in the meantime two armies fly in, represented with four swords and bucklers, and then what hard heart will not receive it for a pitched field?
الصفحة 500 - Now of time they are much more liberal. For ordinary it is that two young princes fall in love; after many traverses she is got with child, delivered of a fair boy, he is lost, groweth a man, falleth in love, and is ready to get another child, — • and all this in two hours...
الصفحة 371 - Addison had shown in his writing it, he doubted he would never have courage enough to let his " Cato" stand the censure of an English audience ; that it had only been the amusement of his leisure hours in Italy, and was never intended for the stage.
الصفحة 88 - In all his soliloquies of moment, the strong intelligence of his attitude and aspect, drew you into such an impatient gaze and eager expectation that you almost imbibed the sentiment with your eye, before the ear could reach it.
الصفحة 80 - You have seen a Hamlet, perhaps, who, on the first appearance of his father's spirit, has thrown himself into all the straining vociferation requisite to express rage and fury, and the house has thundered with applause, though the misguided actor was all the while, as Shakspeare terms it.
الصفحة 89 - I never heard a line in tragedy come from Betterton, wherein my judgment, my ear, and my imagination, were not fully satisfied; which, since his time, I cannot equally say of any one actor whatsoever...
الصفحة 222 - Reason he gave for it was, that the Distresses of King Henry the Sixth, who is kill'd by Richard in the first Act, would put weak People too much in mind of King James then living in France...
الصفحة 260 - Nor could it be expected that Betterton himself, at past seventy, could retain his former Force, and Spirit; though he was yet far distant from any Competitor. Thus then were these Remains of the best Set of Actors, that I believe were ever known, at once, in England, by Time, Death, and the Satiety of their Hearers mould'ring to decay.
الصفحة 213 - It may be observable too, that my muse and my spouse were equally prolific ; that the one was seldom the mother of a child, but in the same year the other made me the father of a play. I think we had a dozen of each sort between us ; of both which kinds some died in their infancy, and near an equal number of each were alive when I quitted the theatre.
الصفحة 77 - One only theatre being now in possession of the whole town, the united patentees imposed their own terms upon the actors ; for the profits of acting were then divided into twenty shares, ten of which went to the proprietors, and the other moiety to the principal actors, in such subdivisions as their different merit might pretend to.