The Stage: Both Before and Behind the Curtain: From "observations Taken on the Spot.", Volumen 1R. Bentley, 1840 |
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... nature , otherwise so frequently necessary , had it not been for the occurrence of a series of events , during its preparation , which would at first appear almost as incredible as they are unprecedented ; and which , from their rapid ...
... nature , otherwise so frequently necessary , had it not been for the occurrence of a series of events , during its preparation , which would at first appear almost as incredible as they are unprecedented ; and which , from their rapid ...
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... nature ; with the invariable conclusion , " so you are writing your life , I find . " Thousands in this world profess to " find " what yet was never " lost ; " and to that class of people I have invariably and truly replied , " I am ...
... nature ; with the invariable conclusion , " so you are writing your life , I find . " Thousands in this world profess to " find " what yet was never " lost ; " and to that class of people I have invariably and truly replied , " I am ...
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... nature , and as both of us are public characters as both have been managers of the two first theatres in the empire - as he has personally , as well as professionally , attacked me , and as I do not happen to think him as great an ...
... nature , and as both of us are public characters as both have been managers of the two first theatres in the empire - as he has personally , as well as professionally , attacked me , and as I do not happen to think him as great an ...
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... to those who lent their best assistance to render them such a desert ? The nature of that assistance , and what I conceive to have been my own long struggles to avert so lamentable a consummation , will herein be xxvi PREFACE .
... to those who lent their best assistance to render them such a desert ? The nature of that assistance , and what I conceive to have been my own long struggles to avert so lamentable a consummation , will herein be xxvi PREFACE .
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... nature of his education . Though the prejudice may run in favour of the usual number of limbs , and a limited quantity of back * , yet it would no more detract from my doings , for the stranger to be told that I was short of a leg , or ...
... nature of his education . Though the prejudice may run in favour of the usual number of limbs , and a limited quantity of back * , yet it would no more detract from my doings , for the stranger to be told that I was short of a leg , or ...
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página xxii - The harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed...
Página 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...
Página 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
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...