The Stage: Both Before and Behind the Curtain, from "observations Taken on the Spot.", Volumen 1Lea & Blanchard, 1840 - 907 páginas |
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... reader will have the kindness and , at the same time , the patience to compare the predictions and the observations , as well as the circumstances in connexion with them , detailed in these volumes , with the final result exemplified in ...
... reader will have the kindness and , at the same time , the patience to compare the predictions and the observations , as well as the circumstances in connexion with them , detailed in these volumes , with the final result exemplified in ...
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... reader's attention , which passed between the Lord Chamberlain's Office and myself , upon the re - introduction of a German Opera in this country . It was an entertainment that , by the admirable manner in which it was sustained in ...
... reader's attention , which passed between the Lord Chamberlain's Office and myself , upon the re - introduction of a German Opera in this country . It was an entertainment that , by the admirable manner in which it was sustained in ...
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... reader will per- ceive that I was prohibited from giving any such amusement ; and , at the very moment I am writing these remarks , I am the acting manager of the German Opera , under a license from the Lord Chamberlain's Office , given ...
... reader will per- ceive that I was prohibited from giving any such amusement ; and , at the very moment I am writing these remarks , I am the acting manager of the German Opera , under a license from the Lord Chamberlain's Office , given ...
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... reader , I imagine , would much rather hear all the particulars of this " greatness , than any thing of him who has had to groan beneath its fardels . Biography is but an attempt at fame , and fame is the most worthless strumpet that ...
... reader , I imagine , would much rather hear all the particulars of this " greatness , than any thing of him who has had to groan beneath its fardels . Biography is but an attempt at fame , and fame is the most worthless strumpet that ...
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... reader , therefore , whom I have not the honour to class among my acquaintance , will be good enough to be satisfied with a statement of the simple fact that , like the rest of my fellow creatures , I have had the average number of ...
... reader , therefore , whom I have not the honour to class among my acquaintance , will be good enough to be satisfied with a statement of the simple fact that , like the rest of my fellow creatures , I have had the average number of ...
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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.