The Stage: Both Before and Behind the Curtain: From "observations Taken on the Spot.", Volumen 1R. Bentley, 1840 |
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... talent and beauty as she personally subscribes to her present peril- ous undertaking ; but I cannot help adding , that it is an instance of such extraordinary and timely " luck ” acceptable as it would always have been , as never fell ...
... talent and beauty as she personally subscribes to her present peril- ous undertaking ; but I cannot help adding , that it is an instance of such extraordinary and timely " luck ” acceptable as it would always have been , as never fell ...
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... they were condemned in me . When , after years of severe trial and severe loss , after the introduc- tion of all attainable talent , foreign and native , after K the representation of some of the most popular pieces ever PREFACE . XV.
... they were condemned in me . When , after years of severe trial and severe loss , after the introduc- tion of all attainable talent , foreign and native , after K the representation of some of the most popular pieces ever PREFACE . XV.
Página xxvii
... talent , pretension , and expectation . It would have been an almost endless task to anatomize many puny , yet at the same time , mischievous efforts of the secondary class of the histrionic community ; notwith- standing , while sailing ...
... talent , pretension , and expectation . It would have been an almost endless task to anatomize many puny , yet at the same time , mischievous efforts of the secondary class of the histrionic community ; notwith- standing , while sailing ...
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... on general criticism - Disad- vantages of steam to a theatre - Success and talent not synonymous - Reasons why no one ever should be a manager 74 CHAPTER V. The value of experience exemplified - The general xxxii CONTENTS .
... on general criticism - Disad- vantages of steam to a theatre - Success and talent not synonymous - Reasons why no one ever should be a manager 74 CHAPTER V. The value of experience exemplified - The general xxxii CONTENTS .
Página xxxiv
... talent for anecdote― Opening of the patent theatres after their union - Free List -Some on it " more free than welcome " -John Barnett and John Bull - Musical genius - First effects of the GRAND JUNCTION , and its overflow Page 124 ...
... talent for anecdote― Opening of the patent theatres after their union - Free List -Some on it " more free than welcome " -John Barnett and John Bull - Musical genius - First effects of the GRAND JUNCTION , and its overflow Page 124 ...
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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...