Drama: Or, Theatrical Pocket Magazine ..., Volume 4T. and J. Elvey., 1823 Wholly dedicated to the stage, and containing original dramatic biography, essays, criticisms, poetry, reviews ... with occasional notices of the country theatres, the whole forming a complete critical and biographical illustration of the British stage. |
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... person here alluded to was a Roman Catholic priest in the reign of CHARLES 1. and was tried and execu- ted at Hereford . The place where the execution took place is now the race - ground , and known by the name of Wide Marsh . His hand ...
... person here alluded to was a Roman Catholic priest in the reign of CHARLES 1. and was tried and execu- ted at Hereford . The place where the execution took place is now the race - ground , and known by the name of Wide Marsh . His hand ...
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... persons think it makes them look ridiculous by betraying the weakness of their nature . ” But why may not nature show itself in tragedy , as well as in comedy , or farce ? We see persons not ashamed to laugh loudly at the humour of a ...
... persons think it makes them look ridiculous by betraying the weakness of their nature . ” But why may not nature show itself in tragedy , as well as in comedy , or farce ? We see persons not ashamed to laugh loudly at the humour of a ...
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... tragedy succeeded at first much better than ither " Venice Preserved , " or " The Orphan , " and was finitely more applauded , and followed for many days . It audience , consisting of nearly the same persons , could. THEATRICAL MAGAZINE. ..
... tragedy succeeded at first much better than ither " Venice Preserved , " or " The Orphan , " and was finitely more applauded , and followed for many days . It audience , consisting of nearly the same persons , could. THEATRICAL MAGAZINE. ..
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... persons , could be drawn together only by variety . This seems plausible ; and DOWNES , in his " Roscius Anglicanus " informs us , that it was only acted ten succeeding days ; but adds , it got more money than any preceding tragedy , a ...
... persons , could be drawn together only by variety . This seems plausible ; and DOWNES , in his " Roscius Anglicanus " informs us , that it was only acted ten succeeding days ; but adds , it got more money than any preceding tragedy , a ...
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... person to be mar- ried or murdered , and is the substance of the fourth act ; - at last the contest becomes fatiguing , the mariage is so- lemnized , and the murder perpetrated - and this constitutes the last . Lambeth , 1823 ...
... person to be mar- ried or murdered , and is the substance of the fourth act ; - at last the contest becomes fatiguing , the mariage is so- lemnized , and the murder perpetrated - and this constitutes the last . Lambeth , 1823 ...
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Page 79 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword; The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
Page 280 - Spurred boldly on, and dashed through thick and thin Through sense and nonsense, never out nor in: Free from all meaning, whether good or bad, And, in one word, heroically mad, He was too warm on picking-work to dwell, But faggoted his notions as they fell, And, if they rhymed and rattled, all was well.
Page 68 - I'll bear him no more sticks, but follow thee, Thou wondrous man. Trin. A most ridiculous monster, to make a wonder of a poor drunkard ! Cal. I prithee, let me bring thee where crabs grow ; And I with my long nails will dig thee pig-nuts ; Show thee a jay's nest and instruct thee how To snare the nimble marmoset ; I'll bring thee To clustering filberts and sometimes I'll get thee Young scamels from the rock.
Page 78 - Well believe this, No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace, As mercy does.
Page 282 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Page 29 - His acquaintance with Ben Jonson began with a remarkable piece of humanity and good nature. Mr. Jonson, who was at that time altogether unknown to the world, had offered one of his plays to the players, in order to have it acted ; and the persons into whose hands it was put, after having turned it carelessly and superciliously over, were just upon returning it to him with an ill-natured answer, that it would be of no service to their company ; when...
Page 74 - Making it momentary as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream, Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That in a spleen unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say, Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up, So quick bright things come to confusion.
Page 335 - What particular habitude or friendships he contracted with private men, I have not been able to learn, more than that every one, who had a true taste of merit, and could distinguish men, had generally a just value and esteem for him. His exceeding candour and good nature must certainly have inclined all the gentler part of the world to love him...
Page 377 - For ill can Poetry express Full many a tone of thought sublime, And Painting, mute and motionless, Steals but a glance of time. But by the mighty actor brought, Illusion's perfect triumphs come, — Verse ceases to be airy thought, And Sculpture to be dumb.
Page 377 - Whose image brought the heroic age Revived to Fancy's view. Like fields refreshed with dewy light When the sun smiles his last, Thy parting presence makes more bright Our memory of the past ; And memory conjures feelings up That wine or music need not swell, As high we lift the festal cup To Kemble — fare thee well...