Some Account of the English Stage: From the Restoration in 1660 to 1830, 第 2 卷H.E. Carrington, 1832 |
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... says << Faith , Gentlemen , be kind to his first born . " The first edition of the Treacherous Brothers is dated 1690 - Langbaine says that the main incident -the soporifick potion - is borrowed from a romance called the Wall Flower ...
... says << Faith , Gentlemen , be kind to his first born . " The first edition of the Treacherous Brothers is dated 1690 - Langbaine says that the main incident -the soporifick potion - is borrowed from a romance called the Wall Flower ...
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... says " whatever fiction I " have elsewhere interwoven , the distresses of Hor- " midas and Cleomira are true history " —this play is founded on the 39th chapter of the 5th book of Theo- doritus - Settle has warpt the story in favour of ...
... says " whatever fiction I " have elsewhere interwoven , the distresses of Hor- " midas and Cleomira are true history " —this play is founded on the 39th chapter of the 5th book of Theo- doritus - Settle has warpt the story in favour of ...
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... say was divided between Mortimer and Eitherside the former of whom attempts to debauch Maria - this alteration was ... says " The play is quite imperfect . Your Lordship loves the stage : CC 66 so does Mr. Murphy , let me entreat your ...
... say was divided between Mortimer and Eitherside the former of whom attempts to debauch Maria - this alteration was ... says " The play is quite imperfect . Your Lordship loves the stage : CC 66 so does Mr. Murphy , let me entreat your ...
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... says , King Arthur does not seem to have been ever brought on the stage - one would not have expected so gross a ... say , " How shall we bear the lewdness of this play ! " 66 In Ben Jonson's time the bucks and bloods of T. R. 1691 .
... says , King Arthur does not seem to have been ever brought on the stage - one would not have expected so gross a ... say , " How shall we bear the lewdness of this play ! " 66 In Ben Jonson's time the bucks and bloods of T. R. 1691 .
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... says Why I knew the Hectors , and before " them the Muns , and the Tityre Tues ; they were " brave fellows indeed ; in those days a man could 66 not go from the Rose Tavern to the Piazza once , " but he must venture his life twice " -it ...
... says Why I knew the Hectors , and before " them the Muns , and the Tityre Tues ; they were " brave fellows indeed ; in those days a man could 66 not go from the Rose Tavern to the Piazza once , " but he must venture his life twice " -it ...
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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.