Memoirs of His Own Life, Τόμος 2author, 1790 |
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Σελίδα 7
... best speaker in the House of Com- mons if put really to act on the ftage would feel not only awkward , but likely inferior in point of freedom and expreffion to the actor , even in the B 3 TATE WILKINSON . 7 My friend was received with ...
... best speaker in the House of Com- mons if put really to act on the ftage would feel not only awkward , but likely inferior in point of freedom and expreffion to the actor , even in the B 3 TATE WILKINSON . 7 My friend was received with ...
Σελίδα 24
... best bound , he muttered inwardly with ineffable contempt , but proceeded on his exploring business of obferva- tion , ran his finger down the middle of each page , and then dashed the volume difdainfully open on the floor , the which ...
... best bound , he muttered inwardly with ineffable contempt , but proceeded on his exploring business of obferva- tion , ran his finger down the middle of each page , and then dashed the volume difdainfully open on the floor , the which ...
Σελίδα 46
... best qualities ; for we had heard the chimes at midnight . Not any perfon now existing re- members this circumftance fo well as Mr. Austin ; he and I were very intimate , and he was one of the very few belonging to the theatre who ...
... best qualities ; for we had heard the chimes at midnight . Not any perfon now existing re- members this circumftance fo well as Mr. Austin ; he and I were very intimate , and he was one of the very few belonging to the theatre who ...
Σελίδα 49
... best of mothers perfectly happy , and every reasonable want at com- mand . Many of my mother's and late father's acquaintance were , as may be fuppofed , in the vale of years , and not of the frisky caft . At that time I frequently ...
... best of mothers perfectly happy , and every reasonable want at com- mand . Many of my mother's and late father's acquaintance were , as may be fuppofed , in the vale of years , and not of the frisky caft . At that time I frequently ...
Σελίδα 60
... best characters , yet that night's performance she never equalled before or fince . As the world is not over good natured , the cause was attributed to fome offence at the rehearsal she conceived Mr. Macklin to have gi- ven her ...
... best characters , yet that night's performance she never equalled before or fince . As the world is not over good natured , the cause was attributed to fome offence at the rehearsal she conceived Mr. Macklin to have gi- ven her ...
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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.