The Stage: Both Before and Behind the Curtain: From "observations Taken on the Spot.", Том 1R. Bentley, 1840 |
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... 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 matter of such recent occurrence ...
... 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 matter of such recent occurrence ...
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... nights in an earlier part of her season , towards the number she proposed to play , by which she has been enabled to close so much earlier , and thereby to escape the fearful odds against a patent manager , as the London season ...
... nights in an earlier part of her season , towards the number she proposed to play , by which she has been enabled to close so much earlier , and thereby to escape the fearful odds against a patent manager , as the London season ...
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... nights , on each of which he filled most of the crevices in Covent Garden Theatre ; and if his acting had no other effect , it possessed the very useful and salutary one of bringing other performers to their Covent Garden Theatre . By ...
... nights , on each of which he filled most of the crevices in Covent Garden Theatre ; and if his acting had no other effect , it possessed the very useful and salutary one of bringing other performers to their Covent Garden Theatre . By ...
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... NIGHTS , to give a few promenade concerts to enable me the more effectually to return to the usual dramatic performances , the yell from one end of the theatrical part of the metropolis to the other was enough to make the welkin ring ...
... NIGHTS , to give a few promenade concerts to enable me the more effectually to return to the usual dramatic performances , the yell from one end of the theatrical part of the metropolis to the other was enough to make the welkin ring ...
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... NIGHTS , between the 26th Octo- ber , 1839 , and the 28th February , 1840 , all was " like a phantasma or a hideous dream . " What ! A Drury Lane season , the first of a new lessee , to extend but to four months , and in those four ...
... NIGHTS , between the 26th Octo- ber , 1839 , and the 28th February , 1840 , all was " like a phantasma or a hideous dream . " What ! A Drury Lane season , the first of a new lessee , to extend but to four months , and in those four ...
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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.
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.
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