The Life of an ActorMethuen, 1904 - 263 עמודים |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
actor admirer amongst appearance applause audience Baronet Bartholomew Fair better blue-eyed nymph Brilliant Shore celebrated character comic Country Manager Covent Garden Theatre daughter dear delight door Drawn & Engraved dress EDMUND KEAN elegant endeavoured engagement exclaimed eyes fair ELIZA fame father favourite feelings fellow flattered fond fortune gentleman Hamlet happy Haymarket Theatre heart hero Hero among Heroes honour HORATIO QUILL hour JOHN EMERY John Kemble Knipe ladies Lane laugh likewise London look mansion MARIA master ment metropolis MILDMAY mind Miss mistress Mug-Cutter never night numerous obtain opinion Othello PEREGRINE PROTEUS PEREGRINE'S performers person pieces PIERCE EGAN play possessed prison procure profession rehearsal replied Romeo salary scene Screw servants Shakspeare shillings Sir Harry SIR HENRY GAYBOY situation smile stage stage-struck Strolling Player success talents Teazer Theatres Royal theatrical THEATRICAL PROPERTY theatrically mad Thespis thing town visits young BULLION
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עמוד 2 - Let me play the Fool : With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come ; And let my liver rather heat with wine, Than my heart cool with mortifying groans. Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster ? Sleep when he wakes?
עמוד 4 - There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond, And do a wilful stillness entertain, 90 With purpose to be dress'd in an opinion Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit, As who should say ' I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips let no dog bark...
עמוד 57 - Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye Than twenty of their swords : look thou but sweet, And I am proof against their enmity.
עמוד 8 - My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, And makes as healthful music : it is not madness That I have utter'd : bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word ; which madness Would gambol from.
עמוד 2 - I love thee, and it is my love that speaks,— There are a sort of men, whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond; And do a wilful stillness entertain, With purpose to be dress'd in an opinion Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit; As who should say, ' I am Sir Oracle, And, when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!
עמוד 25 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown: The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword, The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observ'd of all observers, quite, quite down.
עמוד 110 - Her hair, I said, was auburn ; but her eyes Were black as death, their lashes the same hue, Of downcast length, in whose silk shadow lies Deepest attraction ; for when to the view Forth from its raven fringe the full glance flies, Ne'er with such force the swiftest arrow flew : 'Tis as the snake late coil'd, who pours his length, And hurls at once his venom and his strength.
עמוד 212 - Pity it is that the momentary beauties flowing from an harmonious elocution cannot, like those of poetry, be their own record; that the animated graces of the player can live no longer than the instant breath and motion that presents them, or at best can but faintly glimmer through the memory or imperfect attestation of a few surviving spectators...
עמוד 66 - My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.
עמוד xix - I could weep My spirit from mine eyes ! — There is my dagger, And here my naked breast ; within, a heart Dearer than Plutus' mine, richer than gold : If that thou be'st a Roman, take it forth ; I, that denied thee gold, will give my heart : Strike, as thou didst at Caesar ; for, I know, When thou didst hate him worst, thou lovedst him better Than ever thou lovedst Cassius.