The Life of Edwin Forrest: With Reminiscences and Personal RecollectionsT. B. Peterson, 1874 - 524 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
actor alluded appeared Arch Street Theatre artist audience beautiful Broadway Theatre called cause CHAPTER character Chestnut Street Chestnut Street Theatre Colley Cibber commenced connection Conrad Cooper Coriolanus criticism Damon death dollars dramatic E. L. Davenport Edwin Forrest Edwin Forrest Home engagement England English eyes feeling folio Forney friends gallery Garrick gave genius gentleman give Gladiator Hamlet heard hiss histrionic honor Jack Cade James John Kean Kemble King Lear letter living London look Macready Macready's manager manner ment mind nature never night noble occasion Oraloosa Othello passage passion performed Philadelphia picture play produced profession readers Reminiscences reply Richard Richard III Richelieu scene Shakespeare Smith Spartacus speaking spirit Springbrook success talent tion tragedian tragedy Virginius voice Walnut Street Theatre wife William witnessed words writer York young youth
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Página 47 - I've seen around me fall, Like leaves in wintry weather; I feel like one, Who treads alone Some banquet hall deserted, Whose lights are fled, Whose garlands dead, And all but he departed!
Página 140 - For since these arms of mine had seven years' pith, Till now, some nine moons wasted, they have used Their dearest action in the tented field ; And little of this great world can I speak, More than pertains to feats of broil and battle ; And therefore little shall I grace my cause, In speaking for myself; yet by your...
Página 141 - She'd come again, and with a greedy ear • Devour up my discourse: which I, observing, Took once a pliant hour, and found good means To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart That I would all my pilgrimage dilate...
Página 255 - I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them...
Página 263 - tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly: If the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, 'With his surcease, success ; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here. But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, — We'd jump the life to come...
Página 272 - Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose...
Página 471 - ... as where, before, you were abus'd with divers stolen and surreptitious copies, maimed and deformed by the frauds and stealths of injurious impostors, that expos'd them ; even those are now offer'd to your view cur'd, and perfect of their limbs; and all the rest absolute in their numbers, as he conceived them: Who, as he was a happy imitator of Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it.
Página 187 - ... the end of the tenth or the beginning of the eleventh century, during the invasions of England by the Danes. ' If the dramas of Shakspeare,
Página 43 - tis the mind that makes the body rich ; And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, So honour peereth in the meanest habit. What, is the jay more precious than the lark, Because his feathers are more beautiful ? Or is the adder better than the eel, Because his painted skin contents the eye ? O, no, good Kate ; neither art thou the worse For this poor furniture, and mean array.
Página 187 - The younger sort take much delight in Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis ; but his Lucrece, and his tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmarke, have it in them to please the wiser sort, 1598.