The Lives of the Players, Band 2H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1831 |
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Seite 294 - Pity it is, that the momentary beauties flowing from an harmonious elocution, cannot like those of poetry be their own record! That the animated graces of the player can live no longer than the instant breath and motion that presents them; or at best can but faintly glimmer through the memory, or imperfect attestation of a few surviving spectators.
Seite 283 - Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less? Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are made Taller or stronger than the weeds they shade? Or ask of yonder argent fields above, Why JOVE'S Satellites are less than JOVE?
Seite 159 - ... thanking his master kindly for making him well ; yet, the moment his back was turned, mocking him with wry faces ; answering the doctor, whom I should have thought extremely witty, if Andrew had not been there, with jokes so apposite and whimsical as never failed to produce roars of laughter. All this was to me assuredly, " the feast of reason and the flow of soul ! " As it was the first scene of the kind I had ever witnessed, so it was the most extatic.
Seite 307 - Two lovely creatures gone ; and another is just arrived from school with all the dazzling, frightful sort of beauty that irradiated the countenance of Maria, and makes me shudder when I look at her. I feel myself, like poor Niobe, grasping to her bosom the last and youngest of her children ; and, like her, look every moment for the vengeful arrow of destruction.
Seite 246 - Because you are a methodist preacher ; and when you know who I am, you'll send me to the devil !" — " The Lord forbid ! I am, as yon say, a preacher of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, who tells us to clothe the naked, feed the hungry, and relieve the distressed ; and do you think I can behold a sister...
Seite 299 - Mrs. Siddons, in her visit to me, behaved with great modesty and propriety, and left nothing behind her to be censured or despised. Neither praise nor money, the two powerful corrupters of mankind, seem to have depraved her. I shall be glad to see her again. Her brother Kemble calls on me, and pleases me very well. Mrs. Siddons and I talked of plays ; and she told me her intention of exhibiting this winter the characters of Constance, Catharine, and Isabella, in Shakspeare.
Seite 3 - I spoke so familiarly," he used to say, " and so little in the hoity-toity tone of the tragedy of that day, that the manager told me I had better go to grass for another year or two.
Seite 170 - A company of travelling comedians then is a small kingdom, of which the manager is the monarch. Their code of laws seems to have existed with few material variations since the days of Shakespeare, who is, with great reason, the god of their idolatry. — The person who is rich enough to furnish a wardrobe and scenes, commences manager, and has his privileges accordingly : if there are twenty persons in the company, for instance, the manager included, the receipts of the house, after all incidental...
Seite 274 - I throw myself, Ladies and -Gentlemen, upon the high sense of breeding, that distinguishes a London audience ; and I hope I shall never be wanting in my duty to the public ; but nothing shall induce me to suffer insult.
Seite 269 - Kemble, and in these words addressed the astonished proprietor. 'I am an EAGLE, whose wings have been bound down by frosts and snows; but now I shake my pinions, and cleave into the general air, unto which I am born.