The Stage: Both Before and Behind the Curtain: From "observations Taken on the Spot.", Том 1R. Bentley, 1840 |
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... LATE LESSEE OF THE THEATRES ROYAL DRURY LANE AND COVENT GARDEN . " I am ( NOT ) forbid To tell the secrets of my prison - house . " HAMLET , ACT 1. SC . V. IN THREE VOLUMES . VOL . I. RICHARD BENTLEY , NEW BURLINGTON STREET , Publisher ...
... LATE LESSEE OF THE THEATRES ROYAL DRURY LANE AND COVENT GARDEN . " I am ( NOT ) forbid To tell the secrets of my prison - house . " HAMLET , ACT 1. SC . V. IN THREE VOLUMES . VOL . I. RICHARD BENTLEY , NEW BURLINGTON STREET , Publisher ...
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... late esteemed and eminent friend , Charles Mathews , and I , have heard its defunct tenant , Mrs. Hornby , of garrulous memory , with a pair of bright blue eyes glistening under a flaxen front , positively aver , that a rusty rapier ...
... late esteemed and eminent friend , Charles Mathews , and I , have heard its defunct tenant , Mrs. Hornby , of garrulous memory , with a pair of bright blue eyes glistening under a flaxen front , positively aver , that a rusty rapier ...
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... late lamented friend , Mr. Henry Harris , who directed Covent Garden theatre from 1809 to 1822. He enlisted under his banners , during this period , the most eminent people in every department that have ever adorned a theatre , on ...
... late lamented friend , Mr. Henry Harris , who directed Covent Garden theatre from 1809 to 1822. He enlisted under his banners , during this period , the most eminent people in every department that have ever adorned a theatre , on ...
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... country , went to America with his daughter , amassed much money there , returned , took leave of the stage , and subsided into the Examiner of Plays . The late Mr. Elliston , for seven years lessee of 18 MR . C. KEMBLE .
... country , went to America with his daughter , amassed much money there , returned , took leave of the stage , and subsided into the Examiner of Plays . The late Mr. Elliston , for seven years lessee of 18 MR . C. KEMBLE .
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From "observations Taken on the Spot." Alfred Bunn. The late Mr. Elliston , for seven years lessee of Drury Lane theatre , knew as much of the stage , its capabilities , and its necessities , as any man that ever crossed it : and though ...
From "observations Taken on the Spot." Alfred Bunn. The late Mr. Elliston , for seven years lessee of Drury Lane theatre , knew as much of the stage , its capabilities , and its necessities , as any man that ever crossed it : and though ...
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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. 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.
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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...
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