The Stage: Both Before and Behind the Curtain: From "observations Taken on the Spot.", Volumen3R. Bentley, 1840 |
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... Lord Mayor - Dimond his life and death - His many trials- LENT , not paid for The Lord Chamberlain again ! —Mrs . Glover's fall from the stage - C . Kean's Hamlet and Richard - Three hundred guineas ' worth of lectures - A Shaksperian ...
... Lord Mayor - Dimond his life and death - His many trials- LENT , not paid for The Lord Chamberlain again ! —Mrs . Glover's fall from the stage - C . Kean's Hamlet and Richard - Three hundred guineas ' worth of lectures - A Shaksperian ...
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... Lord North - Chenies - Miss Stephen made a lady of -Theodore Hook and Captain Saunders - Shakspeare monument -A ... Chamberlain and the German Opera- Value of a Patent , and of a Chamberlain - Shaksperian Hoax- Wright's Champagne ...
... Lord North - Chenies - Miss Stephen made a lady of -Theodore Hook and Captain Saunders - Shakspeare monument -A ... Chamberlain and the German Opera- Value of a Patent , and of a Chamberlain - Shaksperian Hoax- Wright's Champagne ...
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... Lord Chamberlain passes Lent , and how the divines observe it - Lord John Russell's assertion , and Mr. Bunn's contradiction - Pleasant prospects for the British em- pire 101 CHAPTER V. Posthumous opera by Sheridan How to pay a coal ...
... Lord Chamberlain passes Lent , and how the divines observe it - Lord John Russell's assertion , and Mr. Bunn's contradiction - Pleasant prospects for the British em- pire 101 CHAPTER V. Posthumous opera by Sheridan How to pay a coal ...
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... Lord Mayor - Dimond his life and death - His many trials- LENT , not paid for - The Lord Chamberlain again ! —Mrs . Glover's fall from the stage - C . Kean's Hamlet and Richard - Three hundred guinea's worth of lectures - A Shaksperian ...
... Lord Mayor - Dimond his life and death - His many trials- LENT , not paid for - The Lord Chamberlain again ! —Mrs . Glover's fall from the stage - C . Kean's Hamlet and Richard - Three hundred guinea's worth of lectures - A Shaksperian ...
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... Lord Chamberlain ) shut . Imagine any function- ary having the power to take the bread out of some hundreds of mouths on a day when the chances are , he puts an extra quantity into his own . Well may they say , " the times are out of ...
... Lord Chamberlain ) shut . Imagine any function- ary having the power to take the bread out of some hundreds of mouths on a day when the chances are , he puts an extra quantity into his own . Well may they say , " the times are out of ...
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actors Alfred Bunn Amburgh amongst amusements Balfe character Charles Kean Chevalier Spontini city of Westminster committee Covent Garden Theatre DEAR BUNN DEAR SIR dinner Ditto Drury Lane Theatre Duke Duncombe engagement entertainments exertions Farinelli favour feeling Fridays Garrick gentlemen George Robins German operas give given Guillaume Tell hear honour Kean's Kemble Knowles Lady legitimate drama Lent lessee letter license London Lord Byron Lord Chamberlain Lord John Russell lordship's Macready Madame Vestris Majesty Majesty's March matter MEMS ment Miss Monsieur never nights noble lord obedient servant occasion opinion paid parties patent theatres performance piece played pleasure present proprietors question reader receipts received reply respect Reynolds Royal Drury Lane salary School for Scandal season Shakspeare Shakspeare's Sheridan Sir Giles stage sub-committee subjoined talent Theatre Royal Drury theatrical tion Wednesday wish
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Página 69 - Enter: its grandeur overwhelms thee not; And why ? It is not lessened ; but thy mind, Expanded by the genius of the spot, Has grown colossal, and can only find A fit abode wherein appear enshrined Thy hopes of immortality; and thou Shalt one day, if found worthy, so defined, See thy God face to face, as thou dost now His holy of holies, nor be blasted by his brow.
Página 65 - I am in blood Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er : Strange things I have in head, that will to hand ; Which must be acted, ere they may be scann'd.
Página 51 - Out upon Time ! it will leave no more Of the things to come than the things before ! Out upon Time ! who for ever will leave But enough of the past for the future to grieve...
Página 40 - Cause, slave ! why, I am angry, And thou a subject only fit for beating, And so to cool my choler. Look to the writing ; Let but the seal be broke upon the box, That has slept in my cabinet these three years, I'll rack thy soul for't.
Página 65 - All causes shall give way ; I am in blood Stept in so far, that should I wade no more, Returning were as bad as to go o'er.
Página 192 - Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till, by broad spreading, it disperse to nought.
Página 165 - I'd dry the mourner's tears, And to the pallid lip recall the smile of happier years ; And hearts that had been long estranged, and friends that had grown cold, Should meet again, like parted streams, and mingle as of old.
Página 109 - Linguet believed this reflection to be quite new. * !..-•"! coneernant let amiatenrs, pp. 36, 37. It is to be hoped that a time will come when the same liberal spirit will govern maritime warfare ; that naval engagements will take place without entailing confiscation of merchant vessels, or the making prisoners of plain sailors, or other than military passengers. Commerce could then be carried on at sea as it is on land, in...
Página 153 - ... examiner of plays to Drury Lane, with his report upon their merits and demerits. Certain of the items may be here reproduced : — ' Paired Off — The plan, characters, and dialogue of the piece are by no means objectionable, but I fear it is not up to the mark as to the breadth necessary for a one-act piece. The part intended for Mrs. Glover is tame, and what she could or would do nothing with. ' Nicolas Pedrossa— Sad stuff — to be returned.
Página 99 - To impress more strongly on the auditor, and render more palpable those portions of the story which have not the advantage of action, and still are requisite to the drama's completeness, the narrative and descriptive poetry spoken by the Chorus is accompanied with pictorial illustrations from the pencil of Mr. Stanfield.