Charles MacklinK. Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1891 - 208 頁 |
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第 51 頁 - Cold are those hands, which, living, were stretched forth At friendship's call to succour modest worth. Here lies James Quin ! deign reader to be taught (Whate'er thy strength of body, force of thought, In nature's happiest mould however cast), To this complexion thou must come at last.
第 64 頁 - I had never before assumed, the performers all stared at one another, and evidently with a stare of disappointment. Well, sir, hitherto all was right, till the last bell rung; then, I confess, my heart began to beat a little...
第 135 頁 - O, sir, yee do no ken the law — the law is a sort of hocuspocus science, that smiles in yeer face, while it picks yeer pocket : and the glorious uncertainty of it is of mair use to the professors than the justice of it — Here the parties come, and seemingly in great affliction.
第 136 頁 - Sir ! Sir C. Faith I do — for the youngest branch of our family, one Mac Fergus O'Brallaghan, was the very man that went from Carrickfergus, and peopled all Scotland with his own hands ; so that, my dear Sir Archy, you must be bastards of course, you know. Sir A. Hark'e, Sir Gallaghan, though yeer ignorance and vanity would mak conquerors and ravishers of yeer ancestors, and harlots and Sabines o' our mithers — yet, ye shall prove, Sir, that their issue are a
第 156 頁 - I booed, and watched, and hearkened, and ran about, backwards and forwards, and attended, and dangled upon the then great mon, till I got into the vary bowels of his confidence ; and then, sir, I wriggled, and wrought, and wriggled, till I wriggled myself among the very thick of them.
第 64 頁 - ... accordingly at this period I threw out all my fire ; and as the contrasted passions of joy for the merchant's losses, and grief for the elopement of Jessica, open a fine field for an actor's powers, I had the good fortune to please beyond my most sanguine expectations.
第 56 頁 - Pencil drew, But all the shining Master-stroaks are new. This Play, ye Criticks, shall your Fury stand, Adorn'd and rescu'd by a faultless Hand.
第 65 頁 - I made such a silent yet forcible impression on my audience, that I retired from this great attempt most perfectly satisfied. On my return to the greenroom after the play was over, it was crowded with nobility and critics, who all complimented me in the warmest and most unbounded manner, and the situation I felt myself in, I must confess, was one of the most flattering and intoxicating of my whole life. No money, no title could purchase what I felt.
第 51 頁 - Cold is that hand, which ever was stretched forth. At friendship's call, to succour modest worth. Here lies James Quin ! — Deign, reader, to be taught, Whate'er thy strength of body, force of thought ; In Nature's happiest mould however cast, To this complexion thou...
第 135 頁 - Theodore is my uncle, only by my moder's side, which is a little upstart family, that came in vid one Strongbow but t'other day — lord, not above six or seven hundred years ago; whereas my family, by my fader's side, are all the true old...