The Annals of Covent Garden Theatre from 1732 to 1897, Τόμος 1Chatto & Windus, 1906 |
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The Annals of Covent Garden Theatre from 1732 to 1897, Τόμος 1 Henry Saxe Wyndham Πλήρης προβολή - 1906 |
The Annals of Covent Garden Theatre from 1732 to 1897, Τόμος 1 Henry Saxe Wyndham Πλήρης προβολή - 1906 |
The Annals of Covent Garden Theatre from 1732 to 1897, Τόμος 1 Henry Saxe Wyndham Πλήρης προβολή - 1906 |
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Σελίδα 174 - Sir, you will complete your favors by putting the piece into such a state as it may be acted, or of directing me how to do it I shall ever retain a sense of your goodness to me. And indeed though most probably this be the last I shall ever write yet I can't help feeling a secret satisfaction that poets for the future are likely to have a protector who declines taking advantage of their dependent situation; and scorns that importance which may be acquired by trifling with their anxieties.
Σελίδα 189 - I entreat you'll relieve me from that state of suspense in which I have been kept for a long time. Whatever objections you have made or shall make to my play, I will endeavour to remove and not argue about them. To bring in any new judges either of its merits or faults I can never submit to. Upon a former occasion, when my other play was before Mr. Garrick, he offered to bring me before Mr. Whitehead's tribunal...
Σελίδα 173 - Dear sir," says he in a letter dated Temple Garden Court, July 9th, " I am very much obliged to you for your kind partiality in my favor, and your tenderness in shortening the interval of my expectation. That the play is liable to many objections I well know, but I am happy that it is in hands the most capable in the world of removing them. If then, dear sir you will complete your...
Σελίδα 202 - We received your songs to-day, with which we are exceedingly pleased. I shall profit by your proposed alterations; but I'd have you to know that we are much too chaste in London to admit such strains as your Bath spring inspires.
Σελίδα 49 - Whether it has action enough to please the stage, I doubt; but the morality and satire ought to be relished by the reader. I will do more than you ask me ; I will recommend it to Mr. Rich. If he can join it to any play, with suitable representations, to make it an entertainment, I believe he will give you a benefit night; and I sincerely wish it may be turned any way to your advantage, or that I could show you my friendship in any instance. I am, &c.
Σελίδα 100 - With very little variation of cadence, and in a deep, full tone, accompanied by a sawing kind of action, which had more of the senate than of the stage in it, he rolled out his heroics with an air of dignified indifference, that seemed to disdain the plaudits that were bestowed upon him.
Σελίδα 100 - Quin presented himself upon the rising of the curtain in a green velvet coat embroidered down the seams, an enormous full bottomed periwig, rolled stockings and high-heeled square-toed shoes: with very little variation of cadence, and in a deep full tone, accompanied by a sawing kind of action...
Σελίδα 13 - This entertainment consisted of two parts, which the inventor distinguished by the names of the serious and the comic. The serious exhibited a certain number of heathen gods and heroes, who were certainly the worst and dullest company into which an audience was ever introduced; and (which was a secret known to few) were actually intended so to be, in order to contrast the comic part of the entertainment, and to display the tricks of harlequin to the better advantage.
Σελίδα 189 - I shall not experience as hard treatment from you as from him. I have, as you know, a. large sum of money to make up shortly ; by accepting my play I can readily satisfy my Creditor that way, at any rate I must look about to some certainty to be prepared. For God's sake take the play and let us make the best of it, and let me have the same measure at least which you have given as bad plays as mine. I am your friend and servant, OLIVER GOLDSMITH.