The Daughters of Thespis, Or A Peep Behind the CurtainJackson & Company, 1841 - 206 Seiten |
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... acting lends ; The youngest of the sister arts , Where all their beauty blends . LONDON : PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY JACKSON & CO . , 130 , NEW BOND STREET . 1841 . pounded principally of size and lamp - oil — gain 707 . DAUGHTERS OF ...
... acting lends ; The youngest of the sister arts , Where all their beauty blends . LONDON : PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY JACKSON & CO . , 130 , NEW BOND STREET . 1841 . pounded principally of size and lamp - oil — gain 707 . DAUGHTERS OF ...
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... actor . Those two ferocious - looking gentlemen who are taking snuff together are just going on for a mortal combat ; and that mild - looking old man , with his arm round the waist of the plump girl in the dark corner , personates the ...
... actor . Those two ferocious - looking gentlemen who are taking snuff together are just going on for a mortal combat ; and that mild - looking old man , with his arm round the waist of the plump girl in the dark corner , personates the ...
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... actor , and the thin person , the tailor of the establishment . Mark how he calls the tailor s atten tion to the mis - fit of his trunk - hose - now he turns round to show him something is wrong behind , for no one is more scrupulous in ...
... actor , and the thin person , the tailor of the establishment . Mark how he calls the tailor s atten tion to the mis - fit of his trunk - hose - now he turns round to show him something is wrong behind , for no one is more scrupulous in ...
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... acting a bad part in a private theatre . At length , in a lucky moment , he applied to a theatrical agent , who sent him down to Truro , in Cornwall , to lead the tragedy busi- ness , at the munificent salary of eighteen shillings per ...
... acting a bad part in a private theatre . At length , in a lucky moment , he applied to a theatrical agent , who sent him down to Truro , in Cornwall , to lead the tragedy busi- ness , at the munificent salary of eighteen shillings per ...
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... actor . " Do anything in this way , think you ? " and rising from his seat he made the circuit of the room , and stopping in the middle , with his arms crossed , began shaking his head and turning it round with such fearful velocity ...
... actor . " Do anything in this way , think you ? " and rising from his seat he made the circuit of the room , and stopping in the middle , with his arms crossed , began shaking his head and turning it round with such fearful velocity ...
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actor actress afterwards amongst amusement appearance applause Armand Vestris arrived audience Bartolozzi beauty Beggar's Opera called Captain celebrated character Chatterley Christmas cigar circumstances comedy commenced Countess of Harrington Covent-Garden daughter dear delight drama dress Drury Drury-Lane Duke Elliston engagement excellent eyes fair father favourite Feargus O'Connor feelings fire gentleman Green-room habit handsome Haymarket heard heart heroine histrionic honour horse Humby husband Janson Kean Kemble lady late London look Lord Louisa lover Madame Vestris manager marriage ment metropolis Miss Chester Miss Mordaunt Miss Stephens never night Nisbett occasion Opera Orger Othello party performance person play pleasure Portsmouth possession pounds present profession Queen's Theatre readers remember replied scene season seat Shakspere sighed singing singular smiles song stage talent theatre Theatre Royal theatrical Thespis Thomas Welsh Thornton tion town whilst wife woman young
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Seite 204 - Affecting to seem unaffected. With skill her eyes dart every glance, Yet change so soon you'd ne'er suspect them ; For she'd persuade they wound by chance, Though certain aim and art direct them. She likes herself, yet others hates For that which in herself she prizes; And while she laughs at them, forgets She is the
Seite 12 - once a pliant hour, and found good means To draw from her a pray'r of earnest heart That he would all his pilgrimage dilate, Whereof by parcels she had something heard
Seite 168 - it argues an act, and an act has three branches; it is to act, to do, and to perform ; argal, she drowned herself wittingly.'' Second Clown.—" Nay, but hear you, good man deliver.
Seite 168 - to him and drown him, he drowns not himself; argal, he that is not guilty of his own death, shortens not his own life.
Seite 21 - AT CRAWLEY'S BOOTH, Over against the CROWN TAVERN, in Smithfield, During the time of Bartholomew Fair, Will be presented a little Opera, called— The Old Creation of the World, Yet newly revived, with the addition of
Seite 152 - actor demand a combination not easily to be found, is an erroneous assumption, ascribable, perhaps, to the following causes. The market for this kind of talent must always be understocked, because very few of those who are really qualified to gain theatrical fame will condescend to start for it. To succeed, the candidate must
Seite 168 - First Clown.—" It must be se offendendo, it cannot be else, for here lies the point. If I drown myself
Seite 197 - The man who lays his hand upon a woman, save in the way of kindness, is a wretch whom 'twere gross