The Stage: Both Before and Behind the Curtain: From "observations Taken on the Spot.", Том 1R. Bentley, 1840 |
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... facts , rather than trusting to fiction , and supporting argument by document . There is no possibility of refuting the various autho- rities cited which are interspersed throughout these pages , the records and letters inserted , the ...
... facts , rather than trusting to fiction , and supporting argument by document . There is no possibility of refuting the various autho- rities cited which are interspersed throughout these pages , the records and letters inserted , the ...
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... fact , and that our gracious Queen would never have sanctioned a continuance of regulations , equally unwholesome and * As a proof how rooted has been the determination to carry out the position which I laboured so long , but in vain ...
... fact , and that our gracious Queen would never have sanctioned a continuance of regulations , equally unwholesome and * As a proof how rooted has been the determination to carry out the position which I laboured so long , but in vain ...
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... fact , viz . that on the very first night of Lent , when the prohibition was taken off , Her Majesty was pleased to visit Covent Garden Theatre , and to sit out the evening's entertainments . It can hardly be believed , were it not a ...
... fact , viz . that on the very first night of Lent , when the prohibition was taken off , Her Majesty was pleased to visit Covent Garden Theatre , and to sit out the evening's entertainments . It can hardly be believed , were it not a ...
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... fact , when or where the writer was born , what was his parentage , or what the nature of his education . Though the prejudice may run in favour of the usual number of limbs , and a limited quantity of back * , yet it would no more ...
... fact , when or where the writer was born , what was his parentage , or what the nature of his education . Though the prejudice may run in favour of the usual number of limbs , and a limited quantity of back * , yet it would no more ...
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... fact that , like the rest of my fellow creatures , I have had the average number of relations -that my father wore a sword instead of swallowing one that I was considered , as the Rev. Mr. Plum- tree * has it , " respectable till I took ...
... fact that , like the rest of my fellow creatures , I have had the average number of relations -that my father wore a sword instead of swallowing one that I was considered , as the Rev. Mr. Plum- tree * has it , " respectable till I took ...
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The Stage: Both Before and Behind the Curtain: From "observations ..., Том 1 Alfred Bunn Полный просмотр - 1840 |
The Stage: Both Before and Behind the Curtain: From "observations ..., Том 1 Alfred Bunn Полный просмотр - 1840 |
The Stage: Both Before and Behind the Curtain: From "observations ..., Том 1 Alfred Bunn Полный просмотр - 1840 |
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Стр. 15 - horse while another may not look over the hedge," has been seldom more fully exemplified than in the circumstance I am about to mention.
Стр. 156 - The very first Of human, life must spring from woman's breast, Your first small words are taught you from her lips, Your first tears quench'd by her, and your last sighs Too often breathed out In a woman's hearing, When men have shrunk from the ignoble care Of watching the last hour of him who led them.
Стр. 229 - THERE is a tear for all that die, A mourner o'er the humblest grave ; But nations swell the funeral cry, And Triumph weeps above the brave. For them is Sorrow's purest sigh O'er Ocean's heaving bosom sent : In vain their bones unburied lie, All earth becomes their monument ! A tomb is theirs on every page, An epitaph on every tongue : The present hours, the future age, For them bewail, to them belong.
Стр. xxii - The harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed...
Стр. 260 - And lastly, we do by these presents, for us, our heirs and successors, grant unto the said James Russell, his executors, administrators, and assigns, that these, our letters patent, or the enrolment or exemplification thereof, shall be in and...
Стр. 12 - I know not ; all my new function consists ' in listening to the despair of Cavendish Bradshaw, ' the hopes of Kinnaird, the wishes of Lord Essex, the ' complaints of Whitbread, and the calculations of ' Peter Moore, — all of which, and whom, seem totally ' at variance. C. Bradshaw wants to light the theatre ' with gas, which may, perhaps (if the vulgar be be' lieved), poison half the audience, and all the Dramatis
Стр. 124 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed; in breeze or gale or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving, boundless, endless, and sublime, — The image of Eternity, the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Стр. 259 - ... plays and entertainments of the stage as aforesaid to the actors and other persons employed in acting representing or in any quality whatsoever about the said theatre as he or they shall think fit and that the said Company shall be under the sole government and authority of the said...
Стр. 206 - There is given Unto the things of earth, which Time hath bent, A spirit's feeling, and where he hath leant His hand, but broke his scythe, there is a power And magic in the ruined battlement, For which the palace of the present hour Must yield its pomp, and wait till ages are its dower.
Стр. 68 - Tis that by which the sun and moon, At their own weapons, are outdone : That makes knights-errant fall in trances, And lay about 'em in romances : Tis virtue, wit, and worth, and all That men divine and sacred call : For what is worth in any thing, But so much money as 'twill bring...