Some Account of the English Stage: From the Restoration in 1660 to 1830. In Ten Volumes, Volume 10H.E. Carrington, 1832 - Theater |
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Page 421 - And how did Garrick speak the soliloquy last night? Oh, against all rule, my Lord, — most ungrammatically! betwixt the substantive and the adjective, which should agree together in number, case, and gender, he made a breach thus, — stopping, as if the point wanted settling; — and betwixt the nominative case, which your lordship knows should govern the verb, he suspended his voice in the epilogue a dozen times three seconds and three fifths by a stop-watch, my Lord, each time.
Page 422 - Admirable grammarian! But in suspending his voice — was the sense suspended likewise? Did no expression of attitude or countenance fill up the chasm ? — Was the eye silent? Did you narrowly look? — —I looked only at the stop-watch, my Lord.
Page 46 - ... he fell from his duty, and all his former friends, and prostituted himself to the vile office of celebrating the infamous acts of those who were in rebellion against the King ; which he did so meanly, that he seemed to all men to have lost his wits when he left his honesty; and so shortly after died miserable and neglected, and deserves to be forgotten.
Page 173 - All this we hope from your Highness's happy expiration, who are the true father of your country ; for while you live, we can call nothing ours, and it is from your death that we hope for our inheritances.
Page 430 - Mrs. Abington's manner was charmingly fascinating, and her speaking voice melodious. She had peculiar tricks in acting, one was turning her wrist, and seeming to stick a pin in the side of her waist. She was also very adroit in the exercise of her fan ; and though equally capital in fine ladies and hoydens...
Page 230 - death-bed" may be, it is not my province to predicate : let him settle it with his Maker, as I must do with mine. There is something at once ludicrous and blasphemous in this arrogant scribbler of all...
Page 151 - Whereas Mr. Thomas Otway, some time before his death, made four Acts of a Play, whoever can give notice in whose hands the copy lies, either to Mr. Thomas Betterton, or to Mr. William Smith, at the Theatre Royal, shall be well rewarded for his pains.
Page 8 - Was played betwixt the black house and the white. " The white house won. Yet still the black doth brag, «' They had the power to put me in the bag. " Use but your royal hand, 'twill set me free: V 'Tis but removing of a man, that's me.
Page 403 - ... submit, however reluctantly. Previous to his appearance, an apology for his former conduct was demanded by the public, and with so much earnestness, that it became necessary to promise it unconditionally. The night was accordingly fixed, and every part of the house crowded soon after the doors were open. When the curtain drew up he advanced to the centre of the stage with a paper in his hand, fearing (in that unavoidable confusion) to trust entirely to his memory. It was the opinion of some of...
Page 172 - TO HIS HIGHNESS OLIVER CROMWELL. " May it please your Highness, — " How I have spent some hours of the leisure your Highness has been pleased to give me, this following paper will give your Highness an account. How you will please to interpret it, I cannot tell; but I can with confidence say, my intention in it is, to procure your Highness that justice nobody yet does you, and to let the people see, the longer they defer it, the greater injury they do both themselves and you. To your Highness justly...