Edwin Booth and His Contemporaries, Τόμος 2Brander Matthews, Laurence Hutton Page, 1900 |
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acting actor actress admiration appearance applause audience beauty Boaden chap character Charles Kemble CHARLES LAMB Charles Mathews CHARLES YOUNG charm comedian comedy comic Cooke's Cooper countenance Covent Garden daughter dignity DORA JORDAN drama Drury Lane Dublin Elliston engagement excellence expression eyes face Falstaff farce farewell father feeling friends Garrick gave genius gentleman George Frederick Cooke grace Hamlet Haymarket heart humor Iago John Kemble John Philip Kemble Jordan Kean Kean's Kemble's King laugh LAURENCE HUTTON LEIGH HUNT Liston London look Lord manager manner Master Betty ment Miss Farren Miss O'Neill Munden nature never night Norval Othello passion perfect performance person play players Reminiscences Richard ROBERT WILLIAM ELLISTON Romeo Roscius scene season seemed seen Shakspere's Siddons spirit stage success Tate Wilkinson theatre theatrical tion told took tragedy tragic voice W. C. MACREADY William wonderful words
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Σελίδα 22 - Mutter'd to wretch by necromantic spell ; Or of those hags who at the witching time Of murky midnight, ride the air sublime, And mingle foul embrace with fiends of hell ; Cold horror drinks its blood ! Anon the tear More gentle starts, to hear the beldame tell Of pretty babes, that lov'd each other dear, Murder'd by cruel uncle's mandate fell : Ev'n such the shiv'ring joys thy tones impart, Ev'n so, thou, Siddons, meltest my sad heart.
Σελίδα 88 - For time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And, with his arms outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer: welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing.
Σελίδα 22 - As when a child, on some long winter's night, Affrighted, clinging to its grandam's knees, With eager wond'ring and perturb'd delight Listens strange tales of fearful dark decrees, Mutter'd to wretch by necromantic spell; Or of those hags who at the witching time Of murky midnight, ride the air sublime, And mingle foul embrace with fiends of hell; Cold horror drinks its blood!
Σελίδα 57 - Mrs. Siddons, in her visit to me, behaved with great modesty and propriety, and left nothing behind her to be censured or despised. Neither praise nor money, the two powerful corrupters of mankind, seem to have depraved her. I shall be glad to see her again. Her brother Kemble calls on me, and pleases me very well. Mrs. Siddons and I talked of plays ; and she told me her intention of exhibiting this winter the characters of Constance, Catharine, and Isabella, in Shakspeare.
Σελίδα 40 - I am very glad she is thus patronised, since Mrs. Abington, and so many frail fair ones, have been thus noticed by the great. She behaved with great propriety ; very calm, modest, quiet, and unaffected. She has a very fine countenance, and her eyes look both intelligent and soft. She has, however, a steadiness in her manner and deportment by no means engaging. Mrs. Thrale, who was there, said, — " Why, this is a leaden goddess we are all worshipping! however, we shall soon gild it.
Σελίδα 58 - I think so too, madam (said he); and whenever you perform it, I will once more hobble out to the theatre myself.
Σελίδα 45 - Yet I was filial to my humble parents. But did my sire surpass the rest of men As thou excellest all of womankind?
Σελίδα 176 - This was the light into which Betterton threw this scene, which he opened with a pause of mute amazement ; then rising slowly to a solemn, trembling voice, he made the ghost equally terrible to the spectator as to himself...
Σελίδα 66 - Save for the gallantry of man, In lovelier woman's cause. Fair as some classic dome, Robust and richly graced, Your Kemble's spirit was the home Of genius and of taste. Taste, like the silent dial's power, That when supernal light is given, 28 THE POETICAL ALBUM. Can measure inspiration's hour, And tell its height in heaven.
Σελίδα 153 - Her joyous parts — in which her memory now chiefly lives — in her youth were outdone by her plaintive ones. There is no giving an account how she delivered the disguised story of her love for Orsino. It was no set speech, that she had foreseen, so as to weave it into an harmonious period, line necessarily following line, to make up the music — yet I have heard it so spoken, or rather rend, not without its grace and beauty — but, when she had declared her sister's history to be a " blank,"...