Autobiography, a Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever Published, Volum 1Hunt and Clarke, 1826 |
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... pretend to ; ( which , though I have not utterly forgot , I cannot say I have much improved by study ; ) but even there I remember I was the same inconsistent creature I have been ever since ; always in full spirits , in some small ...
... pretend to ; ( which , though I have not utterly forgot , I cannot say I have much improved by study ; ) but even there I remember I was the same inconsistent creature I have been ever since ; always in full spirits , in some small ...
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... pretend not to restrain others from choosing what I do not like ; they are welcome too ( if they please ) to think I offer these rules more from an in- capacity to break them , than from a moral humanity . Let it be so ! Still , that ...
... pretend not to restrain others from choosing what I do not like ; they are welcome too ( if they please ) to think I offer these rules more from an in- capacity to break them , than from a moral humanity . Let it be so ! Still , that ...
Side 34
... pretended suspicion : I therefore told them , since it gave them such joy to believe them my own , I would do my best to make the whole town think so too . As the oddness of this reply was , I knew , what would not be easily com ...
... pretended suspicion : I therefore told them , since it gave them such joy to believe them my own , I would do my best to make the whole town think so too . As the oddness of this reply was , I knew , what would not be easily com ...
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... pretend to give you any farther account than what my simple eyes saw of it . We had not been many days at Nottingham , before we heard that the prince of Denmark , with some other great persons , were gone off from the king to the ...
... pretend to give you any farther account than what my simple eyes saw of it . We had not been many days at Nottingham , before we heard that the prince of Denmark , with some other great persons , were gone off from the king to the ...
Side 61
... pretend to . These shares of the patentees were pro- miscuously sold out to money - making persons , called adventurers , who though utterly ignorant of theatrical affairs were still admitted to a proportionate vote in the management of ...
... pretend to . These shares of the patentees were pro- miscuously sold out to money - making persons , called adventurers , who though utterly ignorant of theatrical affairs were still admitted to a proportionate vote in the management of ...
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Side 101 - ... at once; and that the letter might not embarrass her attack, crack ! she crumbles it at once into her palm, and pours upon him her whole artillery of airs, eyes, and motion. Down goes her dainty, diving, body to the ground, as if she were sinking under the conscious load of her own attractions ; then launches into a flood of fine language and compliment, still playing her chest forward in fifty falls and risings, like a swan upon waving water ; and, to complete her...
Side 66 - All this ? ay, more: Fret, till your proud heart break; Go, show your slaves how choleric you are, And make your bondmen tremble.
Side 87 - ... before his time; and yet his general excellence may be comprehended in one article, viz. a plain and palpable simplicity of nature, which was so utterly his own, that he was often as unaccountably diverting in his common speech, as on the stage. I saw him once...
Side 164 - Such then was the mettlesome modesty he set out with ; upon this principle he produced several frank and free farces, that seemed to knock all distinctions of mankind on the head. Religion, laws, government, priests, judges, and ministers, were all laid flat at the feet of this Herculean satirist...
Side 65 - Betterton ; and it has often amazed me to see those who soon came after him, throw out in some parts of a character a just and graceful spirit which Betterton himself could not but have applauded ; and yet, in the equally shining passages of the same character, have heavily...
Side 101 - Melantha is as finished an impertinent as ever fluttered in a drawing-room, and seems to contain the most complete system of female foppery that could possibly be crowded into the tortured form of a fine lady.
Side 293 - Meaning, the Fable of Mars and Venus* was form'd into a connected Presentation of Dances in Character, wherein the Passions were so happily expressed, and the whole Story so intelligibly told by a mute Narration of Gesture only, that even thinking Spectators allow'd it both a pleasing and a rational Entertainment...
Side 100 - Mountfort, whose second marriage gave her the name of Verbruggen, was mistress of more variety of humour than I ever knew in any one woman actress. This variety too was attended with an equal vivacity, which made her excellent in characters extremely different. -As she was naturally a pleasant...
Side 64 - Hamlet should be in so violent a passion with the gho«t, which, though it might have astonished, had not provoked him ? For you may observe, that in this beautiful speech the passion never rises beyond an almost breathless astonishment, or an impatience limited by filial reverence, to...
Side 310 - ... if the common fame of her may be believed, which in my memory was not doubted, she had less to be laid to her charge, than any other of those ladies who were in the same state of preferment : she never meddled in matters of serious moment, or was the tool of working politicians ; never...