Old Drury Lane: Fifty Years' Recollections of Author, Actor, and Manager, Band 1Chatto and Windus, 1881 - 363 Seiten |
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Old Drury Lane; Fifty Years' Recollections of Author, Actor, and Manager, Band 1 Edward Stirling Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2012 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Academy Notes actor actress Adelphi ALFRED CONCANEN appeared artists audience Author benefit BESANT and JAMES Boucicault BRET HARTE Buckstone Bunn CHARLES GIBBON Christine Nilsson clever cloth extra cloth limp Coloured comedy Covent Garden Crown 8vo DEAR Demy 8vo Douglas Jerrold drama dresses Drury Lane Duke Edited ellin Elliston engaged English Essay Facsimile fair favourite fortune French gallery Haymarket Helen Faucit HENRY honour House Italian Opera JAMES PAYN JAMES RICE JOHN JUSTIN MCCARTHY Kean Keeley King lady lessee London Lord Macbeth MACQUOID Macready Madame Majesty's Opera Majesty's Theatre manager Mapleson Mdlle Miss Monsieur Neville night NOVEL numerous Illustrations Old Drury original Othello OUIDA pantomime performance piece play poor popular Portrait Post 8vo Prince Queen scene scenery season Shakespeare Sheridan shillings Signor Smith stage Stirling Theatre Royal theatrical tion Titiens town tragedy Walter wife WILKIE COLLINS William Yates
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 10 - Greeks and Romans, The Life of the, Described from Antique Monuments. By ERNST GUHL and W. KONER. Translated from the Third German Edition, and Edited by Dr.
Seite 31 - Walton and Cotton's Complete Angler; or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation : being a Discourse of Rivers, Fishponds. Fish and Fishing, written by IZAAK WALTON ; and Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear Stream, by CHARLES COTTON.
Seite 14 - Lamb's Complete Works, In Prose and Verse, reprinted from the Original Editions, with many Pieces hitherto unpublished. Edited, with Notes and Introduction, by RH SHEPHERD. With Two Portraits and Facsimile of a Page of the
Seite 11 - Shelley's Early Poems, and Queen Mab, with Essay by LEIGH HUNT. Shelley's Later Poems : Laon and Cythna, &c. Shelley's Posthumous Poems, the Shelley Papers, &c. Shelley's Prose Works, including A Refutation of Deism, Zastrozzi, St. Irvyne, &c.
Seite 8 - Dunraven's The Great Divide: A Narrative of Travels in the Upper Yellowstone in the Summer of 1874. By the EARL of DUNRAVEN. With Maps and numerous striking full-page Illustrations by VALENTINE W. BROMLEY. " There has not for a long time appeared a better book of travel than Lord Dunraven's ' The Great Divide :' . . . The book is full of clever observation, and both narrative and illustrations are thoroughly good.
Seite 10 - A Year's Work in Garden and Greenhouse: Practical Advice to Amateur Gardeners as to the Management of the Flower, Fruit, and Frame Garden. By GEORGE GLENNY.
Seite 10 - Drawing' were unrivalled^ in masterfulness of touch since Rembrandt (in some qualities of delineation, unrivalled even by him). . . . To make somewhat enlarged copies of them, looking at them through a magnifying glass, and never putting two lines where Cruikshank has put only one, would be an exercise in decision and severe drawing which would leave afterwards little to be learnt in schools.
Seite 19 - Physiology for the Young; Or, The House of Life: Human Physiology, with its Applications to the Preservation of Health. For use in Classes and Popular Reading. With numerous Illustrations. By Mrs. F. FENWICK MILLER. "An admirable introduction to a subject which all -who value health and enjoy lift should have at their fingers
Seite 16 - Longfellow's Complete Prose Works. Including "Outre Mer," "Hyperion," " Kavanagh, ' "The Poets and Poetry of Europe," and " Driftwood." With Portrait and Illustrations by VALENTINE BROMLEY. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, gilt, with Illustrations, js.
Seite 8 - Emanuel On Diamonds and Precious Stones ; their History, Value, and Properties ; with Simple Tests for ascertaining their Reality. By HARRY EMANUEL, FRGS With numerous Illustrations, Tinted and Plain. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, with Illustrations, js.