An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Comedian, and Late Patentee of the Theatre-Royal: With an Historical View of the Stage During His Own TimeJohn Watts, 1740 - 488 頁 |
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第 83 頁 - Pity it is, that the momentary beauties flowing from an harmonious elocution, cannot, like those of poetry, be their own record ; that the animated graces of the player can live no longer than the instant breath and motion that presents them ; or at best can but faintly glimmer through the memory, or imperfect attestation, of a few surviving spectators.
第 139 頁 - ... pours upon him her whole artillery of airs, eyes, and motion; down goes her dainty, diving body to the ground, as if she were sinking under the conscious load of her own attractions; then launches into a flood of fine language and compliment, still playing her chest forward in fifty falls and risings, like a swan upon waving water...
第 101 頁 - He had something of a formal gravity in his mien, which was attributed to the stately step he had been so early confined to. in a female decency. But even that, in characters of superiority, had its proper graces ; it misbecame him not in the part of Leon, in Fletcher's ' Rule a Wife,' &c., which he executed with a determined manliness, and honest authority, well worth the best actor's imitation.
第 2 頁 - But why make my Follies publick? Why not ? I have passed my Time very pleasantly with them, and I don't recollect that they have ever been hurtful to any other Man living.
第 93 頁 - I never heard a line in tragedy come from Betterton, wherein my judgment, my ear, and my imagination, were not fully satisfied; which, since his time, I cannot equally say of any one actor whatsoever...
第 226 頁 - Reason he gave for it was, that the Distresses of King Henry the Sixth, who is kill'd by Richard in the first Act, would put weak People too much in mind of King James then living in France; a notable Proof of his Zeal for the Government!
第 138 頁 - Nor was her humour limited to her sex ; for while her shape permitted, she was a more adroit pretty fellow than is usually Seen upon the stage ; her easy air, action, mien, and gesture, quite changed from the quoif to the cocked hat and cavalier in fashion. People were so fond of seeing her a man, that when the part of Bays in the "Rehearsal...
第 386 頁 - ... our house was in a manner invested, and entrance demanded by twelve o'clock at noon ; and before one it was not wide enough for many who came too late for places.
第 102 頁 - Morat, and in Don Sebastian, Muley Moloch; in both these Parts he had a fierce, Lionlike Majesty in his Port and Utterance that gave the Spectator a kind of trembling Admiration...
第 217 頁 - It may be observable too, that my muse and my spouse were equally prolific ; that the one was seldom the mother of a child, but in the same year the other made me the father of a play. I think we had a dozen of each sort between us ; of both which kinds some died in their infancy, and near an equal number of each were alive when I quitted the theatre.