The Life of David Garrick, Esq, Tom 1J. Wright, 1801 - 389 |
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... voice of love . Comedy was reduced to farce and buffoonery . Garrick . saw that nature was banished from the theatre , but he flattered himself that he should be able to revive a better taste , and succeed by the truth of imitation . He ...
... voice of love . Comedy was reduced to farce and buffoonery . Garrick . saw that nature was banished from the theatre , but he flattered himself that he should be able to revive a better taste , and succeed by the truth of imitation . He ...
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... voice was feeble , swelling frequently to a drawling tone , and al- together ill - suited to the force and energy of Richard . Garrick scorned to lacky after any actor whatever ; he depended on his own genius , and was completely an ...
... voice was feeble , swelling frequently to a drawling tone , and al- together ill - suited to the force and energy of Richard . Garrick scorned to lacky after any actor whatever ; he depended on his own genius , and was completely an ...
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... voice , his atti- tude , changed with every sentiment . To de- scribe him in the vast variety that occurs in Richard , would draw us into too much length . The rage and rapidity , with which he spoke , The North ! -what do they in the ...
... voice , his atti- tude , changed with every sentiment . To de- scribe him in the vast variety that occurs in Richard , would draw us into too much length . The rage and rapidity , with which he spoke , The North ! -what do they in the ...
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... voice was able to affect the heart in several pas- sages , but he could not , with propriety , repre- sent the old king out of his senses . He started , took long and hasty steps , stared about him in a vague wild manner , and his voice ...
... voice was able to affect the heart in several pas- sages , but he could not , with propriety , repre- sent the old king out of his senses . He started , took long and hasty steps , stared about him in a vague wild manner , and his voice ...
Strona 45
... voice was in unison with the workings of his mind , and as soon as he said , " I have that within me which sur- σε passes shew , " his every feature confirmed and proved the truth . The soliloquy , that be- 1 gins with , " O that this ...
... voice was in unison with the workings of his mind , and as soon as he said , " I have that within me which sur- σε passes shew , " his every feature confirmed and proved the truth . The soliloquy , that be- 1 gins with , " O that this ...
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Aaron Hill actor admired alterations appeared applause Athelstan audience Barry Bayes beautiful Belvidera Boadicea brother called catastrophe celebrated CHAP character Cibber comedy comic Creusa critics crowded DAVID GARRICK Decemvir distress dramatic Drury-Lane Dublin Duke Dumnorix elegant engaged English Epigram Epitasis excellent fable fame farce father favour Fleetwood fourth act gave genius give Goodman's Fields heart honour humour Jaffier Johnson judgement King King Lear Lacy Livy Lord Lord Chamberlain lover Macbeth Macklin Mallet manager manner mind month moral Mossop murder nature never night occasion Oroonoko Othello passions pathetic performers piece play plot poet Pritchard Prologue Quin racter resolved revived rick Roman Romeo Samuel Johnson says scene season sentiments September Shakespeare shew soon spirit stage stile success taste tender theatre thought tion tragedy virtue voice Voltaire Whitehead whole wife WILLIAM WHITEHEAD Woodward writer written Xuthus young
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Strona 80 - What hands are here? ha! they pluck out mine eyes! Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red.
Strona 75 - That noble extravagance of fancy, which he had in so great perfection, thoroughly qualified him to touch this weak superstitious part of his reader's imagination ; and made him capable of succeeding, where he had nothing to support him besides the strength of his own genius.
Strona 190 - Looking tranquillity! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart.
Strona 75 - ... we have no rule by which to judge of them, and must confess, if there are such beings in the world, it looks highly probable they should talk and act as he has represented them.
Strona 284 - I'll change my note soon, and, I hope, for the better. May the right use of letters, as well as of men, • Hereafter be fixed by the tongue and the pen. Most devoutly I wish they may both have their due, And that / may be never mistaken for U.
Strona 45 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Strona 336 - Falling in the other day at a victualling-house near the house of peers, I heard the maid come down and tell the landlady at the bar, that my lord bishop swore he would throw her out at window, if she did not bring up more mild beer, and that my lord duke would have a double mug of purl.
Strona 310 - ... tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only Merit constant pay receives, Is...
Strona 30 - ... presence. But the guest at his right hand, a happy-looking, red-faced, welldressed man, soon drew his attention towards me. The party to whom I was thus indebted seemed a very joviallooking personage, and appeared to be well known to all hands, and indeed the life of the party, for, like Falstaff, he was not only witty in himself, but the cause of wit in others.
Strona 101 - His gardens next your admiration call, On every side you look, behold the wall! No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene: Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other.