The Palmy Days of Nance OldfieldW. Heinemann, 1898 - 272 sider This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. |
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... light comedy , who Cibber said was mistress of more variety of humour than he ever knew in any one actress , would never more tread those boards which were dearer to her than life . * Before she disappears for ever from these " Palmy ...
... light comedy , who Cibber said was mistress of more variety of humour than he ever knew in any one actress , would never more tread those boards which were dearer to her than life . * Before she disappears for ever from these " Palmy ...
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... light - and the time when the punctilio and artificial decency of the age will cast over the stage the cold light of formality and restraint . The nation is but slowly recovering from the licentiousness which characterised the merry ...
... light - and the time when the punctilio and artificial decency of the age will cast over the stage the cold light of formality and restraint . The nation is but slowly recovering from the licentiousness which characterised the merry ...
Side 26
... light - hearted monarch seemed expressly born to dispel all respect for the kingly dignity . England was inundated with the foreign follies and vices in his train . The Court set the fashion of the most undisguised im- morality , and ...
... light - hearted monarch seemed expressly born to dispel all respect for the kingly dignity . England was inundated with the foreign follies and vices in his train . The Court set the fashion of the most undisguised im- morality , and ...
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... light manner . The theatre , which in its former simplicity had attracted the spectators solely by the excellence of the dramatic works and the actors , was now furnished out with all the appendages with which we are at this day ...
... light manner . The theatre , which in its former simplicity had attracted the spectators solely by the excellence of the dramatic works and the actors , was now furnished out with all the appendages with which we are at this day ...
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... the matter in the same light , and , indignantly throwing down the silver , stalked into the booth without so much as thanking the proprietor of the puppets . What a Bedlam of a place Bartholomew must have been 34 NANCE OLDFIELD.
... the matter in the same light , and , indignantly throwing down the silver , stalked into the booth without so much as thanking the proprietor of the puppets . What a Bedlam of a place Bartholomew must have been 34 NANCE OLDFIELD.
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actors actress Addison admirers Andromache Anne Bracegirdle audience Barton Booth beauty Betterton Bracegirdle Cato character charms Chetwood Christopher Rich Cibber Colley Colley Cibber comedian comedy dear death delightful Distressed Mother Dogget dramatic Drury Lane English epilogue eyes Farquhar fashion favour fellow Foppington friends genius gentleman George Powell give grace Hamlet Haymarket hero honour humour Jane Shore King Kit-Cat Club LADY BETTY LADY EASY laugh Lincoln's Inn Fields London look lover Macbeth madam manager Maynwaring merry Mistress Oldfield Nance Oldfield never night Non-juror opera passion Paul Lorrain performance perhaps person play players pleasure poet poor Porter Queen Anne rôle Santlow Savage says scene Scornful Lady seem'd SIR CHARLES Sir Courtly Sir Richard Sophonisba speak Spectator spirit stage Steele Swiney Tamerlane TATTLEAID tell theatre theatrical thought town tragedy virtue Whig WIDOW Wilks woman writes young
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Side 106 - To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart, To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold...
Side 93 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Side 250 - Angels and ministers of grace defend us! Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd, Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane, O, answer me!
Side 96 - There is no place of general resort wherein I do not often make my appearance; sometimes I am seen thrusting my head into a round of politicians at Will's, and listening with great attention to the narratives that are made in those little circular audiences. Sometimes I smoke a pipe at Child's; and, while I seem attentive to nothing but the Post-man, overhear the conversation of every table in the room.
Side 107 - The numerous and violent claps of the whig party on the one side of the theatre, were echoed back by the tories on the other ; while the author sweated behind the scenes with concern to find their applause proceeding more from the hand than the head.
Side 98 - I do not know that I meet, in any of my walks, objects which move both my spleen and laughter so effectually, as those young fellows at the Grecian, Squire's, Searle's, and all other coffee-houses adjacent to the law, who rise early for no other purpose but to publish their laziness.
Side 106 - Cato was not so. much the wonder of Rome in his days, as. he is of Britain in ours ; and though all the foolish industry possible has been used to.
Side 140 - Our modern celebrated clubs are founded upon eating and drinking, which are points wherein most men agree, and in which the learned and illiterate, the dull and the airy, the philosopher and the buffoon, can all of them bear a part.
Side 35 - ... hearing what fell from the weakest utterance; all objects were thus drawn nearer to the sense ; every painted scene was stronger, every grand scene and dance more extended ; every rich or fine-coloured habit had a more lively lustre : nor was the minutest motion of a feature (properly changing with the passion or humour it suited) ever lost, as they frequently must be in the obscurity of too great a distance...
Side 107 - Cato, into the box, between one of the acts, and presented him with fifty guineas, in acknowledgment, as he expressed it, for defending the cause of liberty so well against a perpetual dictator. The Whigs are unwilling to be distanced this way, and therefore design a present to the same Cato very speedily ; in the...
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