The Actor: A Treatise on the Art of Playing : Interspersed with Theatrical Anecdotes, Critical Remarks on Plays, and Occasional Observations on AudiencesR. Griffiths, 1750 - 326 pages |
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... scene which had been almost the only merit in a former en- tertainment , into a palace for Comus . He feemed to have confidered it as an unneceffary piece of luxury ( to use the words of a very celebrated writer , who chufes to be ...
... scene which had been almost the only merit in a former en- tertainment , into a palace for Comus . He feemed to have confidered it as an unneceffary piece of luxury ( to use the words of a very celebrated writer , who chufes to be ...
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... scenes , they fhall happen to fuit fo well with the circum- ftances of the character he reprefents , that we cannot deny him a high applause . This however is no more than the deception of a moment ; an abfurdity that follows ...
... scenes , they fhall happen to fuit fo well with the circum- ftances of the character he reprefents , that we cannot deny him a high applause . This however is no more than the deception of a moment ; an abfurdity that follows ...
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... scene in a play fhall pafs off fmooth- ly from the tongue of one perfon , while the dif turbance of the heart of another , as he goes thro ' it , fhall render the organs of his voice incapable of pronouncing the words articulately . The ...
... scene in a play fhall pafs off fmooth- ly from the tongue of one perfon , while the dif turbance of the heart of another , as he goes thro ' it , fhall render the organs of his voice incapable of pronouncing the words articulately . The ...
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... scene ; and ' tis evident that this is a quality of more confequence in playing than in any other profeffion . In what road of playing it is most important , remains to be enquired into . People who find themselves naturally of a ten ...
... scene ; and ' tis evident that this is a quality of more confequence in playing than in any other profeffion . In what road of playing it is most important , remains to be enquired into . People who find themselves naturally of a ten ...
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... scenes : The first of these never fails to engage the attention and the hearts of an audience in an uncommon manner ; but the fame fuccefs has not always attended the other . The affection of an Andromache for her fon , has never fail'd ...
... scenes : The first of these never fails to engage the attention and the hearts of an audience in an uncommon manner ; but the fame fuccefs has not always attended the other . The affection of an Andromache for her fon , has never fail'd ...
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