Our Actresses: Or, Glances at Stage Favourites, Past and Present, Volume 1 |
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Page 140 - Biron they call him; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal: His eye begets occasion for his wit; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest; Which his fair tongue (conceit's expositor) Delivers in such apt and gracious words, That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.
Page 77 - For physic and farces his equal there scarce is— His farces are physic, his physic a farce is.
Page 223 - In spite of outward blemishes, she shone, For humour famed, and humour all her own: Easy, as if at home, the stage she trod, Nor sought the critic's praise, nor fear'd his rod: Original in spirit and in ease, She pleased by hiding all attempts to please: No comic actress ever yet could raise, On Humour's base, more merit or more praise.
Page 169 - Round her she made an atmosphere of life ; The very air seemed lighter from her eyes, They were so soft and beautiful, and rife With all we can imagine of the skies; Her overpowering presence made you feel It would not be idolatry to kneel.
Page 77 - Thou essence of dock, of valerian, and sage, " At once the disgrace, and the pest of the age ; " The worst that we wish thee, for all thy damn'd crimes, " Is to take thy own physic, and read thy own rhymes,
Page 156 - He told her, that if she would become his wife, he would send one hundred sea-otters to her relations ; that he would never ask her to carry wood, draw water, dig for roots, or hunt for provisions ; that he would make her mistress over his other wives, and permit her to sit at her ease from morning to night...
Page 124 - Give her this, my lad," said I, and left the house. — It rained — I called a coach — drove to a coffee-house...
Page 174 - We know what we are, but we know not what we may be...
Page 79 - She, who ne'er answers till a Husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shews she rules ; Charms by accepting, by submitting sways, Yet has her humour most, when she obeys...