A General View of the Stage: By Mr. WilkesJ. Coote; and W. Whetstone, Dublin, 1759 - 335 pages |
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... player happily hold up the mirror to nature , in which each man may behold his own portrait at length ; the fhades of vice , and lights of vir- tue being fo happily blended , as to force the human heart to acknowledge the likeness , and ...
... player happily hold up the mirror to nature , in which each man may behold his own portrait at length ; the fhades of vice , and lights of vir- tue being fo happily blended , as to force the human heart to acknowledge the likeness , and ...
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... players , strollers , and minstrels , as debauchees and corrupters of mankind . He foon had reafon to alter his opinion , for he found that the people ran into all manner of exceffes ; and that wanting fomething to amuse and divert them ...
... players , strollers , and minstrels , as debauchees and corrupters of mankind . He foon had reafon to alter his opinion , for he found that the people ran into all manner of exceffes ; and that wanting fomething to amuse and divert them ...
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... Player exhibits such pictures , and has this fuperiority over other artists , that he can vary his piece at pleasure , and be inftructively pleafing in a variety of lights and attitudes ; a perfection peculiar only to himself . The ...
... Player exhibits such pictures , and has this fuperiority over other artists , that he can vary his piece at pleasure , and be inftructively pleafing in a variety of lights and attitudes ; a perfection peculiar only to himself . The ...
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... Player has discovered where the ftrength of his genius lies , and applies himself to that set of characters which are conformable to it ; when alfo he has laid in a fufficient stock of reading and obfervation , he may be then faid to be ...
... Player has discovered where the ftrength of his genius lies , and applies himself to that set of characters which are conformable to it ; when alfo he has laid in a fufficient stock of reading and obfervation , he may be then faid to be ...
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... from any future one ; but he perfevered , and was fuccefsful . It is faid of him , that he regulated his action be- fore a mirror , and his utterance by the remarks of of that Player who was witness to the ill fuc- 102 A GENERAL VIEW.
... from any future one ; but he perfevered , and was fuccefsful . It is faid of him , that he regulated his action be- fore a mirror , and his utterance by the remarks of of that Player who was witness to the ill fuc- 102 A GENERAL VIEW.
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Page 133 - Villain, be sure thou prove my love a whore, — Be sure of it; give me the ocular proof; Or, by the worth of mine eternal soul, Thou hadst been better have been born a dog Than answer my wak'd wrath ! lago.
Page 164 - That I must die, it is my only comfort ; Death is the privilege of human nature, And life without it were not worth our taking: " Thither the poor, the pris'ner, and the mourner, \\* " Fly for relief, and lay their burthens down.
Page 126 - Alack, alack, is it not like that I So early waking, what with loathsome smells And shrieks like mandrakes...
Page 127 - Imparadised in one another's arms, The happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill Of bliss on bliss, while I to hell am thrust...
Page 226 - As for Maister Greene, all that I will speak of him (and that without flattery) is this (if I were worthy to censure) there was not an actor of his nature, in his time, of better ability in performance of what he undertook, more applauded by the audience, of greater grace at the court, or of more general love in the city.
Page 123 - ... .In Sophocles, when the unfortunate Deianira discovers her mistake in having sent a . poisoned vestment to her husband Hercules; her surprise and sorrow are unspeakable, and she answers not her son who acquaints her with the disaster, but goes off the stage without uttering a syllable. A writer unacquainted with nature and the heart, would have put into her mouth twenty florid Iambics, in which she would bitterly have bewailed her misfortunes, and informed the spectators that she was going to...
Page 121 - Away, stand off ! where is she ? let me fly, Save her from death, and snatch her to my heart. Aim. Oh! Alph. Forbear ; my arms alone shall hold her up, Warm her to life, and wake her into gladness.
Page 147 - Kneller recognised in him a superior artist. Sir Godfrey remarks that "he could only copy nature from the originals before him, but that Dogget could vary them at pleasure and yet keep a close likeness.
Page 164 - Thither the Poor, the Pris'ner, and the Mourner, Fly for Relief, and lay their Burthens down. Come then, and take me now to thy cold Arms, Thou meagre Shade ; here let me breathe my last...
Page 234 - I never see him coming down from one corner of the Stage with his old grey hair standing, as it were, erect upon his head, his face filled with horror and attention, his hands expanded, and his whole frame actuated by a dreadful solemnity but I am astounded and share in all his distresses. Nay, as Shakespeare in some different place, with elegance, observes upon another subject, one might interpret from the dumbness of his gesture.