The Daughters of Thespis, Or A Peep Behind the CurtainJackson & Company, 1841 - 206 Seiten |
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... actress . Supporting with great advantage to herself , and to the powerful pre- judice of gallantry , a very naïve character in the Loves of the Angels , she was induced by the managers of the Adelphi to make trial of her prowess in ...
... actress . Supporting with great advantage to herself , and to the powerful pre- judice of gallantry , a very naïve character in the Loves of the Angels , she was induced by the managers of the Adelphi to make trial of her prowess in ...
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... actress , is , perhaps , one of the most pleasing , at the same time that she is one of the most undefinable in the gathering of the whole corps dra- matique . Out of the ordinary way she possesses very little intellectual discernment ...
... actress , is , perhaps , one of the most pleasing , at the same time that she is one of the most undefinable in the gathering of the whole corps dra- matique . Out of the ordinary way she possesses very little intellectual discernment ...
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... actress be it now our wont to speak , and in so doing we assume the grave biographer . As an actress Mrs. Stirling is at all times pleasing and vivacious , and would by a rigid schooling and the temperate exercise of the intellect she ...
... actress be it now our wont to speak , and in so doing we assume the grave biographer . As an actress Mrs. Stirling is at all times pleasing and vivacious , and would by a rigid schooling and the temperate exercise of the intellect she ...
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... actress ap- peared constrained and undefinable , at least as far as regarded her assumption of those characters which both Miss Foote and Madame Vestris , had in their own way , made palatable to the public taste , whilst as a vocalist ...
... actress ap- peared constrained and undefinable , at least as far as regarded her assumption of those characters which both Miss Foote and Madame Vestris , had in their own way , made palatable to the public taste , whilst as a vocalist ...
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... actress at one of our principal London theatres , being sadly put to it , and convulsing the audience with laughter from this cause . She had to personate a young lady in a farce , and amongst other words had to use the following in ...
... actress at one of our principal London theatres , being sadly put to it , and convulsing the audience with laughter from this cause . She had to personate a young lady in a farce , and amongst other words had to use the following in ...
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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