The Stage: Both Before and Behind the Curtain: From "observations Taken on the Spot.", Volume 1R. Bentley, 1840 - Theater |
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... consideration of this noble Lord the public are now indebted for the enjoyment of some of the best operas of the German school ; and by the same timely aid was Madame Vestris fortunate enough to have the power of availing herself of ...
... consideration of this noble Lord the public are now indebted for the enjoyment of some of the best operas of the German school ; and by the same timely aid was Madame Vestris fortunate enough to have the power of availing herself of ...
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... consideration , this gifted actress could reconcile to herself , if it be her speculation , the outlay of the gainings of a long theatrical life , on the erection of an additional theatre to the eighteen , or twenty , al- ready in ...
... consideration , this gifted actress could reconcile to herself , if it be her speculation , the outlay of the gainings of a long theatrical life , on the erection of an additional theatre to the eighteen , or twenty , al- ready in ...
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... consideration , it were a task of supererogation to anatomize the merits or demerits of others who have at various times filled the managerial chairs of the two principal London Theatres . Their names , in some instances furnish ...
... consideration , it were a task of supererogation to anatomize the merits or demerits of others who have at various times filled the managerial chairs of the two principal London Theatres . Their names , in some instances furnish ...
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... consideration for the more immediate object of those meetings . Contrast the position of the principal theatres in most other countries with their station here , and little further argument will be necessary to prove what I have ...
... consideration for the more immediate object of those meetings . Contrast the position of the principal theatres in most other countries with their station here , and little further argument will be necessary to prove what I have ...
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... consideration , we cease to wonder that the foreign stage has produced such eminent artistes . I , for one , do not think it compatible with the disposition of this country , that its places of public entertainment should be upheld by ...
... consideration , we cease to wonder that the foreign stage has produced such eminent artistes . I , for one , do not think it compatible with the disposition of this country , that its places of public entertainment should be upheld by ...
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Page 15 - horse while another may not look over the hedge," has been seldom more fully exemplified than in the circumstance I am about to mention.
Page 156 - The very first Of human, life must spring from woman's breast, Your first small words are taught you from her lips, Your first tears quench'd by her, and your last sighs Too often breathed out In a woman's hearing, When men have shrunk from the ignoble care Of watching the last hour of him who led them.
Page 229 - THERE is a tear for all that die, A mourner o'er the humblest grave ; But nations swell the funeral cry, And Triumph weeps above the brave. For them is Sorrow's purest sigh O'er Ocean's heaving bosom sent : In vain their bones unburied lie, All earth becomes their monument ! A tomb is theirs on every page, An epitaph on every tongue : The present hours, the future age, For them bewail, to them belong.
Page xxii - The harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed...
Page 260 - And lastly, we do by these presents, for us, our heirs and successors, grant unto the said James Russell, his executors, administrators, and assigns, that these, our letters patent, or the enrolment or exemplification thereof, shall be in and...
Page 12 - I know not ; all my new function consists ' in listening to the despair of Cavendish Bradshaw, ' the hopes of Kinnaird, the wishes of Lord Essex, the ' complaints of Whitbread, and the calculations of ' Peter Moore, — all of which, and whom, seem totally ' at variance. C. Bradshaw wants to light the theatre ' with gas, which may, perhaps (if the vulgar be be' lieved), poison half the audience, and all the Dramatis
Page 124 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed; in breeze or gale or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving, boundless, endless, and sublime, — The image of Eternity, the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Page 259 - ... plays and entertainments of the stage as aforesaid to the actors and other persons employed in acting representing or in any quality whatsoever about the said theatre as he or they shall think fit and that the said Company shall be under the sole government and authority of the said...
Page 206 - There is given Unto the things of earth, which Time hath bent, A spirit's feeling, and where he hath leant His hand, but broke his scythe, there is a power And magic in the ruined battlement, For which the palace of the present hour Must yield its pomp, and wait till ages are its dower.
Page 68 - Tis that by which the sun and moon, At their own weapons, are outdone : That makes knights-errant fall in trances, And lay about 'em in romances : Tis virtue, wit, and worth, and all That men divine and sacred call : For what is worth in any thing, But so much money as 'twill bring...