Some Account of the English Stage: From the Restoration in 1660 to 1830, Volume 3H.E. Carrington, 1832 - Theater |
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Page 222 - This was a good while before the first act was over, and so gave us ease soon; for...
Page 222 - He began on it; and when first he mentioned it to Swift, the Doctor did not much like the project. As he carried it on, he shewed what he wrote to both of us, and we now and then gave a correction, or a word or two of advice; but it was wholly of his own writing. — When it was done, neither of us thought it would succeed. — We showed it to Congreve; who, after reading it over, said, It would either take greatly, or be damned confoundedly.
Page 225 - If you love music, hear it, go to operas, concerts, and pay fiddlers to play to you; but I insist upon your neither piping nor fiddling yourself. It puts a gentleman in a very frivolous, contemptible light...
Page 222 - We were all at the first night of it in great uncertainty of the event; till we were very much encouraged by overhearing the Duke of Argyle, who sat in the next box to us, say: "it will do, — it must do! — I see it in the eyes of them.
Page 223 - ... but others, and among them Dr. Herring, afterwards archbishop of Canterbury, censured...
Page 223 - Opera the gangs of robbers were evidently multiplied. Both these decisions are surely exaggerated. The play, like many others, was plainly written only to divert, without any moral purpose...
Page 222 - The person who acted Polly, till then obscure, became all at once the favourite of the town ; her pictures were engraved, and sold in great numbers ; her life...
Page 508 - Gibber, the syren of the stage, A vow to heaven did make, Full twenty nights in Polly's part She'd make the playhouse shake. When as these tidings came to Clive, Fierce Amazonian dame : ' Who is it thus," in rage she cries, ' Dares rob me of my claim ? ' With that she to the Green-room flew, Where Gibber meek she found ; And sure if friends had not been by She had fell'd her to the ground.
Page 387 - In merry old England it once was a rule, The King had his Poet, and also his Fool : But now we're so frugal, I'd have you to know it, That Cibber can serve both for Fool and for Poet.
Page 486 - These little things, Mr. Sneerwell, will sometimes happen. Indeed a Poet undergoes a great deal before he comes to his Third Night ; first with the Muses, who are humorous Ladies, and must be attended ; for if they take it into their Head at any time to go abroad and leave you, you will pump your Brain in vain : Then, Sir, with the Master of a Playhouse to get it acted, whom you generally follow a...