Memoirs of Robert William Elliston, Comedian ...: 1774-1810, Volume 1John Mortimer, 1844 - 438 pages |
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... leave the world . no copy , " and in a few years nothing is known of them , but that they were . " The actor only , shrinks from time's award ; Feeble tradition is his mem'ry's guard ; By whose faint meed his merit must abide ...
... leave the world . no copy , " and in a few years nothing is known of them , but that they were . " The actor only , shrinks from time's award ; Feeble tradition is his mem'ry's guard ; By whose faint meed his merit must abide ...
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... leave thee , Paradise - thus leave Thee , native soil - where I had hoped to spend Quiet ? ' - " a quotation which doubtless did not strike him at the time , so ludicrously apt to his own fortunes -and deserts . But to return . The ...
... leave thee , Paradise - thus leave Thee , native soil - where I had hoped to spend Quiet ? ' - " a quotation which doubtless did not strike him at the time , so ludicrously apt to his own fortunes -and deserts . But to return . The ...
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... leave Lon- don before the mail , in which every place had been secured . Perplexed , and by this time somewhat alarmed , Elliston readily seized the only chance left for him , and paying part of his fare , was booked forthwith in a ...
... leave Lon- don before the mail , in which every place had been secured . Perplexed , and by this time somewhat alarmed , Elliston readily seized the only chance left for him , and paying part of his fare , was booked forthwith in a ...
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... leaving the two gentlemen , as he expressed it , " to fight it out for the young ' oman as they pleased . " In due time they arrived at Newbury , their resting place for the night . Elliston would now willingly have offered his ...
... leaving the two gentlemen , as he expressed it , " to fight it out for the young ' oman as they pleased . " In due time they arrived at Newbury , their resting place for the night . Elliston would now willingly have offered his ...
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... leave to transcribe , particularly as the lady in question became subsequently so celebrated in this character of Juliet at Covent Garden Theatre : - : - “ Oct. 5 , —95 . “ DEAR MADAM , -Without comp , I think that your Balcony Scene ...
... leave to transcribe , particularly as the lady in question became subsequently so celebrated in this character of Juliet at Covent Garden Theatre : - : - “ Oct. 5 , —95 . “ DEAR MADAM , -Without comp , I think that your Balcony Scene ...
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Page 150 - Swifter than the moon's sphere ; And I serve the fairy queen, To dew her orbs upon the green. The cowslips tall her pensioners be: In their gold coats spots you see ; Those be rubies, fairy favours, In those freckles live their savours. I must go seek some dewdrops here, And...
Page 309 - Next Anger rush'd, his eyes on fire, In lightnings own'd his secret stings, In one rude clash he struck the lyre, And swept with hurried hand the strings.
Page 217 - This was the light into which Betterton threw this scene, which he opened with a pause of mute amazement ; then rising slowly to a solemn, trembling voice, he made the ghost equally terrible to the spectator as to himself...
Page xix - Aspect threw out such a Glow of Health and Chearfulness, that, on the Stage, few Spectators that were not past it could behold her without Desire. It was even a Fashion among the Gay and Young to have a Taste or Tendre for Mrs. Bracegirdle.
Page xx - Great Jonson did by strength of judgment please ; Yet, doubling Fletcher's force, he wants his ease. In differing talents both adorn'd their age ; One for the study, t'other for the stage.
Page 7 - Amphytrion" to the stage, I heard him give it his first reading to the actors, in which, though it is true he delivered the plain sense of every period, yet the whole was in so cold, so flat, and unaffecting a manner, that I am afraid of not being believed when I affirm it.
Page 5 - Twas only that when he was off he was acting. With no reason on earth to go out of his way, He turn'd and he varied full ten times a day...
Page 58 - Yes, clocks will go as they are set. But Man, Irregular Man's ne'er constant, never certain: I've spent at least three precious hours of darkness In waiting dull attendance; 'tis the curse Of diligent virtue to be mixed like mine, With giddy tempers, souls but half resolved.
Page 223 - Heaven knows I have too many ! Do not mock me: Though I am tame, and bred up with my wrongs, Which are my foster-brothers, I may leap, Like a hand-wolf, into my natural wildness, And do an outrage.
Page 6 - It has sometimes been objected to the theatrical artist, that he merely repeats the language and embodies the conceptions of the poet. But the allegation, though specious, is unfounded. It has been completely established, by a great and genial critic of our own time, that the deeper beauties of poetry cannot be shaped forth by the actor,* and it is equally true, that the poet has little share in the highest triumphs of the performer.