The Daughters of Thespis, Or A Peep Behind the CurtainJackson & Company, 1841 - 206 Seiten |
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... performance one of the drop scenes caught fire . The manager , who we have before stated was an extremely corpulent man , was in the act of putting over his usual dress a pair of Turkish trowsers to appear as the Sultan in the farce ...
... performance one of the drop scenes caught fire . The manager , who we have before stated was an extremely corpulent man , was in the act of putting over his usual dress a pair of Turkish trowsers to appear as the Sultan in the farce ...
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... performances have been Victo- rine and Grace Huntly , in the serious ; The Georgian , in the Arab's Leap ; The Petticoat Colonel , and Sally Snow , in the Flight to America . Her personation of the last is ini- mitable , and we doubt if ...
... performances have been Victo- rine and Grace Huntly , in the serious ; The Georgian , in the Arab's Leap ; The Petticoat Colonel , and Sally Snow , in the Flight to America . Her personation of the last is ini- mitable , and we doubt if ...
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... performances , and , we believe , was shortly after announced as Arianette in the Little Jockey , and Laura in ... performance by most of the fashionable , gay , and dissipated , whose spirits are ever eager " to hunt after new ...
... performances , and , we believe , was shortly after announced as Arianette in the Little Jockey , and Laura in ... performance by most of the fashionable , gay , and dissipated , whose spirits are ever eager " to hunt after new ...
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... performance , and when you get him into conver- sation ( he'll be damn'd stiff at first , and talk like a parson ) ask him to have a cigar and some brandy and water ; then bring him below , and say you'll introduce him to me ...
... performance , and when you get him into conver- sation ( he'll be damn'd stiff at first , and talk like a parson ) ask him to have a cigar and some brandy and water ; then bring him below , and say you'll introduce him to me ...
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... performances at several the private theatres of the metropolis he determined to become an actor . Having communicated this reso- lution to Lady Tyrrwhit , he was strenuously urged not to pursue a career which she thought derogatory to ...
... performances at several the private theatres of the metropolis he determined to become an actor . Having communicated this reso- lution to Lady Tyrrwhit , he was strenuously urged not to pursue a career which she thought derogatory to ...
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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