Some Account of the English Stage: From the Restoration in 1660 to 1830, 第 2 卷H.E. Carrington, 1832 |
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... marriage with Montsurry- but it may be doubted , whether this be an improve- ment he has very properly turned the Friar , who was privy to their intrigue , into an old female - he represents on the stage the fight between D'Ambois and 5 ...
... marriage with Montsurry- but it may be doubted , whether this be an improve- ment he has very properly turned the Friar , who was privy to their intrigue , into an old female - he represents on the stage the fight between D'Ambois and 5 ...
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... marriage- -Dorinda had been debauched by Lord Worthy she is kept by him - Lord Worthy returns from abroad in the 1st act - Dorinda is violently in love with Young Reveller - she pretends at first to be virtuous — she invites him to ...
... marriage- -Dorinda had been debauched by Lord Worthy she is kept by him - Lord Worthy returns from abroad in the 1st act - Dorinda is violently in love with Young Reveller - she pretends at first to be virtuous — she invites him to ...
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... married , and the Vandals and Goths are united in a firm alliance - this T. is attributed to Brady - it has con- siderable merit - see L. I. F. Nov. 25 1729 . www = = = Marriage - Hater Match'd . Sir Philip Freewit = Mountfort : Van ...
... married , and the Vandals and Goths are united in a firm alliance - this T. is attributed to Brady - it has con- siderable merit - see L. I. F. Nov. 25 1729 . www = = = Marriage - Hater Match'd . Sir Philip Freewit = Mountfort : Van ...
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... Marriage - hater Matched- * Friendall in Wives ' Excuse . - He was excellent in the Rover - he acted Alex- ander - Castalio - Macduff - Sparkish . * Originally . Anthony Leigh died about a week after Mountfort -In King James ' time ...
... Marriage - hater Matched- * Friendall in Wives ' Excuse . - He was excellent in the Rover - he acted Alex- ander - Castalio - Macduff - Sparkish . * Originally . Anthony Leigh died about a week after Mountfort -In King James ' time ...
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... Marriage in a Mask ; a deception which perhaps never happened and which ( whether likely or not ) had been introduced in so many plays , that it was stale to the last degree . Congreve says he wrote this play to amuse himself in a slow ...
... Marriage in a Mask ; a deception which perhaps never happened and which ( whether likely or not ) had been introduced in so many plays , that it was stale to the last degree . Congreve says he wrote this play to amuse himself in a slow ...
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第 198 頁 - I smile, And cry, Content, to that which grieves my heart ; And wet my cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face to all occasions.
第 210 頁 - My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree; Murder, stern murder in the dir'st degree; All several sins, all us'd in each degree, Throng to the bar, crying all, 'Guilty, guilty!
第 212 頁 - Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead ! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility ; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger...
第 456 頁 - Mr. Betterton (although a superlative good actor) labored under ill figure, being clumsily made, having a great head, a short thick neck, stooped in the shoulders, and had fat short arms, which he rarely lifted higher than his stomach. His left hand frequently lodged in his breast, between his coat and waistcoat, while, with his right he prepared his speech.
第 43 頁 - Og may write against the king, if he pleases, so long as he drinks for him, and his writings will never do the government so much harm, as his drinking does it good ; for true subjects will not be much perverted by his libels; but the wine-duties rise considerably by his claret.
第 314 頁 - ... pay than any of his predecessors. He would laugh with them over a bottle, and bite them in their bargains. He kept them poor, that they might not be able to rebel ; and sometimes merry, that they might not think of it.
第 421 頁 - The author of The Tatler recommends him to the favour of the town, upon that play's being acted for his benefit, wherein, after his age had some years obliged him to leave the stage, he came on again, for that day, to perform his old part; but, alas ! so worn and disabled, as if himself was to have lain in the grave he was digging : when he could no more excite laughter, his infirmities were dismissed with pity : he died soon after, a superannuated pensioner, in the list of those, who were supported...
第 211 頁 - I shall, despair. — There is no creature loves me ; And, if I die, no soul will pity me : — Nay, wherefore should they ? since that I myself Find in myself no pity to myself.
第 516 頁 - Tom observed to me, that after having written more odes than Horace, and about four times as many comedies as Terence, he was reduced to great difficulties, by the importunities of a set of men, who, of late years, had furnished him with the accommodations of life, and would not, as we say, be paid with a song.
第 511 頁 - The tender respect of Augustus for a free constitution which he had destroyed can only be explained by an attentive consideration of the character of that subtle tyrant. A cool head, an unfeeling heart, and a cowardly disposition, prompted him at the age of nineteen to assume the mask of hypocrisy, which he never afterwards laid aside.