Dramatic Table Talk: Or, Scenes, Situations, & Adventures, Serious & Comic, in Theatrical History & Biography, Volume 1Richard Ryan J. Knight & H. Lacey, 1825 |
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... minds the most pleasing and the most animated sensations . - Superior to every other amuse- ment , it , at once , expands the heart , and re- fines the intellect , while , properly directed , ti is one of the most powerful means of im ...
... minds the most pleasing and the most animated sensations . - Superior to every other amuse- ment , it , at once , expands the heart , and re- fines the intellect , while , properly directed , ti is one of the most powerful means of im ...
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... mind , which he had suffered to have free course , and , in fact , every thing which , in his moments of exaltation , concurred to the effect he had pro- duced . His intelligence then passes all these means in review , corrects them ...
... mind , which he had suffered to have free course , and , in fact , every thing which , in his moments of exaltation , concurred to the effect he had pro- duced . His intelligence then passes all these means in review , corrects them ...
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... mind ; the actor must , therefore , in this case , have the air of thinking , before he speaks ; and , by introducing pauses , he appears to take time to meditate on what he is going to say ; but his physiognomy must , also , correspond ...
... mind ; the actor must , therefore , in this case , have the air of thinking , before he speaks ; and , by introducing pauses , he appears to take time to meditate on what he is going to say ; but his physiognomy must , also , correspond ...
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... mind : they are born with them , and succeed each other without interruption . The manner of the actor ought then to be hurried , rapid , and without taking breath ; he must even conceal from the audience the effort he makes to prolong ...
... mind : they are born with them , and succeed each other without interruption . The manner of the actor ought then to be hurried , rapid , and without taking breath ; he must even conceal from the audience the effort he makes to prolong ...
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... mind is active . We have seen sick per- sons astonish by the vivacity of their ideas ; and succeeded . The actor ought to habituate himself to take breath before he absolutely needs it , thus inhaling a little at a time ; and often he ...
... mind is active . We have seen sick per- sons astonish by the vivacity of their ideas ; and succeeded . The actor ought to habituate himself to take breath before he absolutely needs it , thus inhaling a little at a time ; and often he ...
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Page xxii - ... twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve; the censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
Page xxii - ... 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.
Page 246 - This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride At length broke under me; and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Page xxi - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue ; but if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.
Page xxii - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action ; with this special observance, that you o'er-step not the modesty of nature : for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first, and now, was, and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time, his form and pressure.
Page 102 - Weep with me, all you that read This little story : And know, for whom a tear you shed Death's self is sorry. 'Twas a child that so did thrive In grace and feature, As heaven and nature seemed to strive Which owned the creature.
Page 102 - Parcae thought him one, He played so truly. So by error to his fate They all consented; But viewing him since (alas, too late) They have repented. And have sought (to give new birth) In baths to steep him; But, being so much too good for earth, Heaven vows to keep him.
Page 187 - Be absolute for death; either death, or life, Shall thereby be the sweeter. Reason thus with life,— If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep...
Page 25 - He began on it ; and" when first he mentioned it to Swift, the doctor did not much like the project. As he carried it on, he showed what he wrote to both of us, and we now and then gave a correction, or a word or two of advice ; but it was wholly of his own writing.
Page xxi - O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who, for the most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb-shows and noise: I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant; it out-herods Herod: pray you, avoid it.