The Stage: Both Before and Behind the Curtain: From "observations Taken on the Spot.", Volume 1R. Bentley, 1840 - Theater |
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... thing of the kind to himself ) a most auspicious opening , began to waver in the fulfil- ment of such promise . As the introduction of all such expensive expedients as Mr. Bunn had resorted to was voted quite out of the question , and ...
... thing of the kind to himself ) a most auspicious opening , began to waver in the fulfil- ment of such promise . As the introduction of all such expensive expedients as Mr. Bunn had resorted to was voted quite out of the question , and ...
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... thing as cramming down the public throat doctrines that are not palatable to the public taste ? I rank myself amongst the foremost of Miss Kelly's admirers , and was gratified in affording her the use of Drury Lane Theatre to take her ...
... thing as cramming down the public throat doctrines that are not palatable to the public taste ? I rank myself amongst the foremost of Miss Kelly's admirers , and was gratified in affording her the use of Drury Lane Theatre to take her ...
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... though it scatter its envenomed darts Around our Regal Shrine , Their shafts must pierce through millions ' subjects ' hearts , Before they can reach thine ! One thing the deed will prove - all else above- PREFACE . xxiii.
... though it scatter its envenomed darts Around our Regal Shrine , Their shafts must pierce through millions ' subjects ' hearts , Before they can reach thine ! One thing the deed will prove - all else above- PREFACE . xxiii.
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From "observations Taken on the Spot." Alfred Bunn. One thing the deed will prove - all else above- Though steeped in crime it be , How deep , and fond , and lasting , is the love Thy people have for thee ! With reference to the tendency ...
From "observations Taken on the Spot." Alfred Bunn. One thing the deed will prove - all else above- Though steeped in crime it be , How deep , and fond , and lasting , is the love Thy people have for thee ! With reference to the tendency ...
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... thing of him who has had to groan beneath its fardels . Biography is but an attempt at fame , and fame is the most worthless strumpet that ever beguiled a man into a conception of his own importance : " For this men write , speak ...
... thing of him who has had to groan beneath its fardels . Biography is but an attempt at fame , and fame is the most worthless strumpet that ever beguiled a man into a conception of his own importance : " For this men write , speak ...
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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...