The CriticW. Heinemann, 1905 - 70 Seiten |
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1ST NIECE actors admirable advertisements amazement lost Armada audience BEEF BEEFEATER believe bombast burlesque certainly character Chrononhotonthologos comedy Critic Cumberland damned DANG DANGLE'S House dear Dangle DON FEROLO WHISKERANDOS Drury Lane Theatre EDMUND GOSSE egad Enter TILBURINA Exeunt Exit SERVANT faith farce fleet gentlemen GOVERNOR hath hear honour Hopkins INTERP justice JUSTICE'S LADY Kneels laughed LEIC LORD BURLEIGH ma'am mad in white madam managers Monsieur Dangle morning never on't piece plague play pray PROMP PROMPTER puff direct Puff's tragedy Rehearsal ridiculous Sheridan SIGNOR PAST SIGNOR PASTICCIO RITORNELLO SIR CHRIST SIR CHRISTOPHER HATTON Sir Fretful Plagiary SIR WALT SIR WALTER RALEIGH SNEER Spanish Spanish Armada stage suppose sure swords taste Thames theatrical there's thing thou TILB TILBURINA and CONFIDANTE Tilbury Tilbury Fort tion true under-plot Vastly Vosignoria WHISK white satin Zounds
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Seite 17 - No ! quite the contrary ; their abuse is, in fact, the best panegyric — I like it of all things. An author's reputation is only in danger from their support. Sneer. Why, that's true — and that attack, now, on you the other day Sir Fret.
Seite 18 - Well, and pray now — not that it signifies — what might the gentleman say ? Sneer. Why, he roundly asserts that you have not the slightest invention or original genius whatever, though you are the greatest traducer of all other authors living. Sir Fret.
Seite 16 - The newspapers ! Sir, they are the most villainous — licentious — abominable — infernal — not that I ever read them. No; I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.
Seite 19 - Ha! Sneer. In short, that even the finest passages you steal are of no service to you ; for the poverty of your own language prevents their assimilating ; so that they lie on the surface like lumps of marl on a barren moor, encumbering what it is not in their power to fertilize ! Sir Fret.
Seite 13 - I have observed — that there is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy. Sneer. I believe you have reason for what you say, indeed. Sir Fret. Besides — I can tell you it is not always so safe to leave a play in the hands of those who write themselves. Sneer. What, they may steal from them, hey, my dear Plagiary ? Sir Fret. Steal ! — to be sure they may ; and, egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children, disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own.
Seite 27 - But pray, Mr. Puff, what first put you on exercising your talents in this way ? PUFF. Egad, sir, sheer necessity ! — the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention. You must know, Mr. Sneer, that from the first time...
Seite 15 - Or if I made any objection, I am sure it was to nothing in the piece ; but that I was afraid it was, on the whole, a little too long.
Seite 42 - Mr. Puff, as he knows all this, why does Sir Walter go on telling him ? PUFF. But the audience are not supposed to know anything of the matter, are they ? SNEER.
Seite 27 - To the charitable and humane!" and "to those whom Providence hath blessed with affluence!" Sneer. Oh, — I understand you. Puff. And, in truth, I deserved what I got ; for I suppose never man went through such a series of calamities in the same space of time ! — Sir, I was five times made a bankrupt, and reduced from a state of affluence, by a train of unavoidable misfortunes...
Seite 19 - To be sure — for if there is anything to one's praise, it is a foolish vanity to be gratified at it; and, if it is abuse — why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or other ! Enter SERVANT.