Memoirs of His Own Life, Band 1author, 1790 - 807 Seiten |
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... manager . " Yours , " JOHN RICH . " Every actor of confequence was engaged by Mr. Garrick for Drury - Lane , except the Mr. Quin juft mentioned : This was Garrick's first year as At Covent Garden , in the month of February , they only ...
... manager . " Yours , " JOHN RICH . " Every actor of confequence was engaged by Mr. Garrick for Drury - Lane , except the Mr. Quin juft mentioned : This was Garrick's first year as At Covent Garden , in the month of February , they only ...
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... manager's is too short ! The Tea of mine for two or three years after I first went on the stage , I judged would be an en- crease of lafting fuccefs , although the season 1747 , when Mr. Foote was at Covent - Garden giving his Tea ...
... manager's is too short ! The Tea of mine for two or three years after I first went on the stage , I judged would be an en- crease of lafting fuccefs , although the season 1747 , when Mr. Foote was at Covent - Garden giving his Tea ...
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... manager of a theatre ; and when locked up in a room , I there fuppofed myself , by turns , the different perfons I had obferved . This rehearsing frenzy increased to fuch a degree that at laft I fitted up a room in a theatrical manner ...
... manager of a theatre ; and when locked up in a room , I there fuppofed myself , by turns , the different perfons I had obferved . This rehearsing frenzy increased to fuch a degree that at laft I fitted up a room in a theatrical manner ...
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... Manager- a Critic , to be sent to school , was a stroke of real grief and horror ; my pride prevented me from owning the truth , for I had fometime before petitioned for this indulgence , therefore would not let my vera- city or ...
... Manager- a Critic , to be sent to school , was a stroke of real grief and horror ; my pride prevented me from owning the truth , for I had fometime before petitioned for this indulgence , therefore would not let my vera- city or ...
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Tate Wilkinson. instead of the place becoming more easy by habit , the manager rofe ftrongly in my heated imagina- tion : -Studying a play was the employment of a man , but going to fchool , the God of Idleness convinced me was ...
Tate Wilkinson. instead of the place becoming more easy by habit , the manager rofe ftrongly in my heated imagina- tion : -Studying a play was the employment of a man , but going to fchool , the God of Idleness convinced me was ...
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Seite 118 - Give me leave. Here lies the water; good : here stands the man ; good : If the man go to this water, and drown himself, it is, will he, nill he, he goes ; mark you that? but if the water come lo him, and drown him, he drowns not himself: argal, he, that is not guilty of his own death, shortens not his own life. 2 Clo. But is this law ? 1 Clo. Ay, marry is't; crowner's-quest law.1 2 Clo. Will you ha
Seite vii - Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once ; • And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy : How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are ? O, think on that ; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Seite 13 - Wit, my Lords, is a sort of property; it is the property of those who have it, and too often the only property they have to depend on. It is indeed but a precarious dependence. Thank God! we, my Lords, have a dependence of another kind...
Seite iii - Volumes. — If I had held my PEN but half as well as I have held my BOTTLE — what a charming hand I should have wrote by this Time.
Seite 187 - I begin (fays he) to look upon myfelf as one already " dead, and defire, my dear Mr. Pope, whom I love as my • *' own foul, if you furvive me, as you certainly will, if a «
Seite 93 - On perceiving the pipe squeak on her right hand, and being conscious of the insult she had then given apparently to me, it struck her comprehension so forcibly that she immediately concluded I had given the retort upon her in that open and audacious manner, to render her acting and tone ridiculous to the audience, as returning contempt for her devilish sneer.
Seite 59 - How I lov'd Witnefs ye days and nights, and all ye hours, That danc'd away with down upon your feet, As all your bus'nefs were to count my paffion. One day paft by and nothing faw but love; Another came and ftill 'twas only love : The funs were weary'd out with looking on And I untir'd with loving. I faw you ev'ry day, and all the day, And ev'ry day was ftill but as the firft, So eager was I ftill to fee you more. Vent. 'Tis all too true. Ant. Fulvia my wife grew jealous, As (he indeed had reafon,...
Seite 109 - ... sank into awful looks of astonishment, both young and old, before and behind the curtain, to see one of the most handsome women of the age, a favourite principal actress, and who had for several seasons given high entertainment, struck so suddenly by the hand of death, in such a situation of time and place, and in her prime of life, being then about forty-four. She was given over that night, and for several days, yet so far recovered as to linger till near the year 1760, but existed as a mere...
Seite 94 - Merit you have none ; charity you deserve not ; for if you did, my purse should give you a dinner. Your impudence to me last night, where you had with such assurance placed yourself, is one proof of your ignorance ; added to that, I heard you echo my voice when I was acting ; and I sincerely hope in whatever barn you are suffered as an unworthy stroller, that you will fully experience the same contempt you dared last night to offer me.
Seite 163 - I did so ; the walk encouraged me, and another loud applause succeeded. I felt a glow, which seemed to say, ' "What have you to fear! Now, or never. This is the night that either makes you or undoes you quite.