Some Account of the English Stage: From the Restoration in 1660 to 1830, Volumen3H.E. Carrington, 1832 |
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Página 222 - This was a good while before the first act was over, and so gave us ease soon; for that duke (besides his own good taste) has a particular knack, as any one now living, in discovering the taste of the public. He was quite right in this as usual ; the good nature of the audience appeared stronger and stronger every act, and ended in a clamour of applause.
Página 387 - In merry old England it once was a rule, The King had his Poet, and also his Fool : But now we're so frugal, I'd have you to know it, That Cibber can serve both for Fool and for Poet.
Página 222 - This piece was received with greater applause than was ever known. Besides being acted in London sixtythree days without interruption, and renewed the next season with equal applause, it spread into all the great towns of England; was played in many places to the thirtieth and fortieth time ; at Bath and Bristol fifty, &c.
Página 223 - The play, like many others, was plainly written only to divert, without any moral purpose, and is therefore not likely to do good; nor can it be conceived, without more speculation than life requires or admits, to be productive of much evil. Highwaymen and housebreakers seldom frequent the playhouse, or mingle in any elegant diversion; nor is it possible for any one to imagine that he may rob with safety, because he sees Macheath reprieved upon the stage.
Página 225 - ... operas, concerts, and pay fiddlers to play to you ; but I insist upon your neither piping nor fiddling yourself. It puts a gentleman in a very frivolous, contemptible light; brings him into a great deal of bad company; and takes up a great deal of time, which might be much better employed. Few things would mortify me more, than to see you bearing a part in a concert, with a fiddle under your chin, or a pipe in your mouth.
Página 272 - How great was my surprise," says Riccoboni, "when I learnt that he was a young man, about the age of twenty-six. I could not believe it ; but...
Página 337 - ... told so strongly the involuntary motion of a gentleman, that it was impossible to consider the character he represented in any other light than that of reality ; but what was still more surprising, that person who could thus delight an audience, from the...
Página 486 - These little things, Mr. Sneerwell, will sometimes happen. Indeed a Poet undergoes a great deal before he comes to his Third Night ; first with the Muses, who are humorous Ladies, and must be attended ; for if they take it into their Head at any time to go abroad and leave you, you will pump your Brain in vain : Then, Sir, with the Master of a Playhouse to get it acted, whom you generally follow a...
Página 222 - We were all at the first night of it, in great uncertainty of the event; till we were very much encouraged by overhearing the Duke of Argyle, who sat in the next box to us, say, 'it will do — it must do! — I see it in the eyes of them!
Página 246 - This was told me in general without any reasons assigned, or any charge against me of my having given any particular offence. Since this prohibition, I have been told that I am accused, in general terms, of having written many disaffected libels and seditious pamphlets.