| Henry Benjamin Wheatley - 1880 - 342 páginas
...one at Whitehall, not that in Drury Lane. This seems evident by an entry under date Nov. 20, 1660: " I found my Lord in bed late, he having been with the King, Queen and Princess at the Cockpit all night, where General Monk treated them ; and after supper a play ;" because... | |
| William Adolphus Wheeler - 1881 - 600 páginas
...Tennis-Court Theatre. A former theatre of London, in Gibbon's Court, Clare Market. Pepys, in 1000, wrote, " It is the finest play-house, I believe, that ever was in England." Gibraltar. See ROCK OF GIBRALTAR, and SOBTIE KHOM GIBRALTAR. Giebichenstein. A ruined castle near Halle,... | |
| Walter Thornbury - 1879 - 604 páginas
...Fields, which was formerly Gibbon's Tennis Court. . . . Here I saw for the first time one Moone (Mohun), who is said to be the best actor in the world, lately come Over with the king ; and, indeedi it is the finest play-house, I believe, that ever was in England." organs of plants and animals,... | |
| Henry Benjamin Wheatley - 1891 - 640 páginas
...begun ; and so we went in and saw it well acted ; and here I saw the first time one Moone [Mohun "], who is said to be the best actor in the world, lately...finest play-house, I believe, that ever was in England. — Pepys. January 3, 1660-1661. — To the Theatre [in Gibbons's Tennis Court], where was acted Beggar's... | |
| Henry Benjamin Wheatley - 1891 - 646 páginas
...begun ; and so we went in and saw it well acted ; and here I saw the first time one Moone [Mohun *], who is said to be the best actor in the world, lately...the finest play-house, I believe, that ever was in England.—Pepys. January 3, 1660-1661.—To the Theatre [in Gibbons's Tennis Court], where was acted... | |
| Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 484 páginas
...was newly begun ; and so we went in and saw it well acted : and here I saw the first time one Moone, who is said to be the best actor in the world, lately...come over with the King; and indeed it is the finest play -house, I believe, that ever was in England. This morning I found my Lord in bed late, he having... | |
| Charles William Heckethorn - 1896 - 268 páginas
...was newly begun, and so we went in and saw it well acted, and here I saw the first time one Moone,* who is said to be the best actor in the world, lately...playhouse, I believe, that ever was in England.' This latter statement is evidently an exaggeration, though the theatre was built of fine red brick, and... | |
| John James Sexby - 1898 - 676 páginas
...Pepys ' as mad as College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields. the devil.' His opinion of it is that ' it is the finest playhouse, I believe, that ever was in England.' After the death of Davenant it reverted to its former use, and became a tennis-court again. The second... | |
| Samuel Pepys - 1904 - 458 páginas
...begun ; and so we went in and saw it, it was well acted : and here I saw the first time one Moone,' who is said to be the best actor in the world, lately...finest play-house, I believe, that ever was in England. From thence, after a pot of ale with Mr. Shepley at a house hard by, I went by link home, calling a... | |
| Henry Barton Baker - 1904 - 604 páginas
...tennis court), where the play of Beggars Bush was newly begun, and so we went in and saw it well acted. It is the finest playhouse, I believe, that ever was in England." This theatre had been opened a week or two previously under the patent 1 granted by Charles II. to Sir William... | |
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