Memoirs of His Own Life, Τόμος 2author, 1790 |
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Σελίδα 29
... set of Ita- lian fqualling devils who come over to England to get our bread from us ; and I fay curfe them all for a parcel of Italian bitches ; " - and fo Madam Clive made her exit , and with the approbation of all the ftage lords and ...
... set of Ita- lian fqualling devils who come over to England to get our bread from us ; and I fay curfe them all for a parcel of Italian bitches ; " - and fo Madam Clive made her exit , and with the approbation of all the ftage lords and ...
Σελίδα 33
... set of blackguards into the house to call for me ? All I could urge in my horrid fituation was , afferting my ignorance of the matter , but which was of no avail ; and while I was proceeding with my affervations in piano - the forte ...
... set of blackguards into the house to call for me ? All I could urge in my horrid fituation was , afferting my ignorance of the matter , but which was of no avail ; and while I was proceeding with my affervations in piano - the forte ...
Σελίδα 38
... to thee . This speech set me a - going , prepared for what followed , and caufed great effect by my being luc- ky in the thought and the application . I had two 1 J long plaudits for pronouncing a few words ; but those 38 MEMOIRS OF.
... to thee . This speech set me a - going , prepared for what followed , and caufed great effect by my being luc- ky in the thought and the application . I had two 1 J long plaudits for pronouncing a few words ; but those 38 MEMOIRS OF.
Σελίδα 76
... set off for canny Edinburgh : On the evening he received the cafh , he not only feasted with Mr. Garrick's money , but by way of returning thanks , told more ludicrous ftories of him than at any other time I ever recol- lect . He ...
... set off for canny Edinburgh : On the evening he received the cafh , he not only feasted with Mr. Garrick's money , but by way of returning thanks , told more ludicrous ftories of him than at any other time I ever recol- lect . He ...
Σελίδα 89
... set up for myself . " - But more of that speech will occur in its proper place , as he wrote Shift as a fatirical level - a cap to fit me - which cap turned out the richest I ever wore , and entirely at my master Foote's expence . My ...
... set up for myself . " - But more of that speech will occur in its proper place , as he wrote Shift as a fatirical level - a cap to fit me - which cap turned out the richest I ever wore , and entirely at my master Foote's expence . My ...
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Σελίδα 199 - I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory ; But far beyond my depth ; my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary, and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Σελίδα 39 - I should take it, for it cannot be But I am pigeon-liver'd, and lack gall To make oppression bitter, or ere this I should have fatted all the region kites With this slave's offal.
Σελίδα 39 - Why, what an ass am I! This is most brave, That I, the son of a dear father murdered, Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell, Must like a whore unpack my heart with words, And fall a-cursing like a very drab, A scullion!
Σελίδα 153 - For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day ; But he who is in battle slain Can never rise and fight again.
Σελίδα 199 - This is the state of man : To-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope ; to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him : The third day, comes a frost, a killing frost; And, — when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Σελίδα 23 - Gibber thought the new player " well enough," but Foote, with the malice that was natural to him, remarked, " Yes, the hound has something clever, but if his excellence was to be examined, he would not be found in any part equal to Colley Gibber's Sir John Brute, Lord Foppington, Sir Courtly Nice, or Justice Shallow.
Σελίδα 183 - A pleafant fellow. —Who were your parents ? Shift. I was produced, Sir, by a left-handed marriage, in the language of the news-papers, between an illuftrious lamp-lighter and an eminent itinerant cat and dog butcher. — Cat's meat, and dog's meat 1 dare fay, you have heard my mother, Sir.
Σελίδα 183 - Here, firrah, light me a-crofs the kennel. ——I hope your honour will remember poor Jack. You ragged rafcal, I have no halfpence I'll pay you the next time I fee you. But, lack-a-day, fir, that time I faw as feldom as his tradefmen.
Σελίδα 94 - O, what an infernal limb of an actress you'll make ! What ! not know the meaning of prentice ! Why prentice, ma'am, is the plural of prentices !" The complaints of this original to the Dublin stage-manager upon her daughter's wrongs, are equally comic. " Sir, you have not used my daughter well, 'pon my sould, and Barry has left her in ' Love's Last Shift
Σελίδα 28 - ... why will you take a liberty with these gentlemen the players, and without my consent ? you never consulted or told me you were to take off, as you call it ; hey, why now, I never take such liberties — indeed I once did it, but I gave up such dd impudence.