The Actor: A Poetical Epistle to Bonnell Thornton, Esq |
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ACTO Actor Affectation Apes Appeal Applaufe Attitude blended Bofom BONNELL THORNTON brave burſting charm the Ear Cibber's comic dear decent delighted Dodsley e'er EDITION ev'ry expreſs Eyes Face facred Fame feel Fill'd fingle fixt flow fober fome Fool frantic Stare fuit fupplies Genius Geſture Ghoſt Grace Grief Grimace hate Hearers Heart Hero Horror Judgment King laugh Laws Lies lifted Look lov'd Madneſs marks th Meaſure Mimic Mind Modes Monarchs murder'd Nature Nature's nervous nicer o'er Paffions Paufe Phantom Play'r Player pleafing pleas'd pleaſe pliant POET Poet's POETICAL EPISTLE Pow'rs Praiſe Profeffion proper Rage raiſe Reaſon recall Refign'd Religion's Roar Robert Scene Scorn Senſe sewn ſhould Skill Sorrows Sounds ſpeaking ſpoke Stage ſtands Stroke ſtrong Taſte Tear tedious Tell Thee thine thoſe Tone Tongue tragic Train Tumbler tuneful twas UNCUT UNSKILFUL Uſe vacant Vein Voice Vulgar whine Whofe Words writ yawning
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Page 4 - he chofe, A Martyr dying midft infulting Foes. Refign'd with Patience to Religion's Laws, Yet braving Monarchs in his Saviour's Caufe. Fill'd with th' Idea of the facred Part, . He felt a Zeal beyond the reach of Art,..-. . While Look and Voice, and Gefture all expreft A kindred Ardour in the Player's
Page 1 - draws From no Obfervance of mechanic Laws. No fettled Maxims of a fav'rite Stage, No Rules deliver'd down from Age to Age, Let Players nicely mark them as they will, Can e'er entail hereditary Skill. If
Page 9 - conjointly fuit, But acting Words is labour too minute. Grimace will ever lead the Judgment wrong, While fober Humour marks th* Impreffion ftrong. Her proper Traits the fixt Attention hit, And bring me clofer to the Poet's Wit ; With her delighted o'er each
Page 5 - tis only Grace can pleafe No Figure charms us if it has not Eafe. There are who' think the Stature all in all, Nor like the Hero if he is not tall. The feeling
Page 12 - with big impetuous Rage, Bullies the bulky Phantom off the Stage. THE Modes of Grief are not included all In the white Handkerchief and mournful Drawl
Page 17 - O ne'er may Folly feize the Throne of Tafte, Nor Dulnefs lay the Realms of Genius wafte. No bouncing Crackers ape the Thundrer's Fire, No Tumbler float upon the bending Wire. More natural Ufes to the Stage belong,
Page 19 - .'Not all thy Talents brave the Stroke of Death. * Poets to Ages yet unborn appeal, And lateft Times th' eternal Nature feel. Tho' blended here the Praife of Bard and
Page 16 - the Monarch's Place, *. To frighten Children with his mealy Face? The King alone fhould form the Phantom there, And talk and tremble at the vacant Chair. IF
Page 3 - Profeffion (tho' I hate the Phrafe, , . ^Tis fo mechanic in thefe modern Days) Lies not in Trick, or Attitude, or Start, Nature's true Knowledge is his only Art. The
Page 3 - Tis Lear alarms me, for I fee him there. Nor yet confin'd to tragic Walks alone The comic Mufe too claims thee for her own. With each delightful Requifite to pleafe, Tafte, Spirit, Judgment, Elegance, and Eafe, Familiar Nature forms thy only Rule, From