The Stage: Both Before and Behind the Curtain, from "observations Taken on the Spot.", Volume 1 |
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... season , or rather his desire to make the enjoyment of it general . As for the unfortunate Lessee , some idea was entertained of impaling him alive - nothing else could be thought of for such an offending varlet , who had car- ried his ...
... season , or rather his desire to make the enjoyment of it general . As for the unfortunate Lessee , some idea was entertained of impaling him alive - nothing else could be thought of for such an offending varlet , who had car- ried his ...
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... season after season , of bringing it again be- fore the public , but no favourable opportunity presented itself , until the arrival in this country of the Chevalier Spontini . The musical reputation of that composer was sufficient ...
... season after season , of bringing it again be- fore the public , but no favourable opportunity presented itself , until the arrival in this country of the Chevalier Spontini . The musical reputation of that composer was sufficient ...
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... season , towards the number she proposed to play , by which she has been enabled to close so much earlier , and thereby to escape the fearful odds against a patent ! manager , as the London season approaches its height . * While on the ...
... season , towards the number she proposed to play , by which she has been enabled to close so much earlier , and thereby to escape the fearful odds against a patent ! manager , as the London season approaches its height . * While on the ...
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... season , as that of Lent , it must have been doubly acceptable . Heaven forbid that , as an old manager , I should begrudge Madame Vestris such a piece of good fortune as this -on the contrary , I rejoice in it , and repeat , that there ...
... season , as that of Lent , it must have been doubly acceptable . Heaven forbid that , as an old manager , I should begrudge Madame Vestris such a piece of good fortune as this -on the contrary , I rejoice in it , and repeat , that there ...
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... season's management , open to objection , in my humble opinion - still this is only a matter of opinion between two per- sons of experience : but that any management of so much libe- rality and industry should not be highly prosperous ...
... season's management , open to objection , in my humble opinion - still this is only a matter of opinion between two per- sons of experience : but that any management of so much libe- rality and industry should not be highly prosperous ...
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Page 143 - 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 35 - 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 - 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 115 - 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 174 - ... ordained or provided, or any other matter, cause or thing whatsoever to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding.
Page 28 - tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper ; Some liken it to climbing up a hill, Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour, For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill, And bards burn what they call their " midnight taper," To have, when the original is dust, A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust.
Page 96 - 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 114 - We do not think those opinions very consistent; and we think that neither of them could possibly find favour with a person whose genius had a truly dramatic character. We should as soon expect an orator to compose a speech altogether unfit to be spoken. A drama is not merely a dialogue, but an action: and necessarily supposes that something is to pass before the eyes of assembled spectators. Whatever is peculiar to its written part, should derive its peculiarity from this consideration. Its style...
Page 169 - ... and taken in the like kind, or as shall be thought reasonable by him or them, in regard of the great expences of scenes, musick, and such new decorations, as have not been formerly used.