The Stage: Both Before and Behind the Curtain, from "observations Taken on the Spot.", Volumen 1Lea & Blanchard, 1840 - 907 páginas |
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... opening , began to waver in the fulfilment of such promise . As the introduction of all such expensive expedients as Mr. Bunn has resorted to was voted quite out of the question , and the sole PREFACE . xi reliance was to be placed on a.
... opening , began to waver in the fulfilment of such promise . As the introduction of all such expensive expedients as Mr. Bunn has resorted to was voted quite out of the question , and the sole PREFACE . xi reliance was to be placed on a.
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... opening of the cam- paign . When , however , it became manifest that the aforesaid " working company " consisted principally of the dramatis personæ recently figuring at the Strand Theatre , and that with themselves they imported the ...
... opening of the cam- paign . When , however , it became manifest that the aforesaid " working company " consisted principally of the dramatis personæ recently figuring at the Strand Theatre , and that with themselves they imported the ...
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... 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 over- flow , CHAPTER VIII . 94 Ambassadors ...
... 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 over- flow , CHAPTER VIII . 94 Ambassadors ...
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... opening of the doors almost a personal fa- vour on his part . * If you fulfil such article , you injure the * As an article of this description is a theatrical curiosity , I subjoin the copy of one : - " Memorandum of agreement between ...
... opening of the doors almost a personal fa- vour on his part . * If you fulfil such article , you injure the * As an article of this description is a theatrical curiosity , I subjoin the copy of one : - " Memorandum of agreement between ...
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... opening part , a character that had been acted by one of their own favourites . Pray observe , I was hooted before I had delivered ONE line of the author . If ever I forget , or for . give it , may - but I have sworn . Now in a ...
... opening part , a character that had been acted by one of their own favourites . Pray observe , I was hooted before I had delivered ONE line of the author . If ever I forget , or for . give it , may - but I have sworn . Now in a ...
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 174 - ... ordained or provided, or any other matter, cause or thing whatsoever to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.