The Life and Life-work of Samuel PhelpsSampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1886 - 436 Seiten |
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... cast down that his family thought he would never rally again . Indeed he never was the same man afterwards . On the morn- ing after her departure he told his nephew that he had lived through twenty deaths during the previous seven years ...
... cast down that his family thought he would never rally again . Indeed he never was the same man afterwards . On the morn- ing after her departure he told his nephew that he had lived through twenty deaths during the previous seven years ...
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... cast from 1814 to 1868 . The plays produced by Mr. Macready during his four years of management , and those produced by Mr. Phelps during the first four seasons he had Sadler's Wells , with the number of nights they were each played at ...
... cast from 1814 to 1868 . The plays produced by Mr. Macready during his four years of management , and those produced by Mr. Phelps during the first four seasons he had Sadler's Wells , with the number of nights they were each played at ...
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... cast Mr. Warde for Pierre on the repetition of the tragedy . A few nights after Mr. Phelps appeared as Othello , and Mr. Macready stuck to his original intention and played Iago . Mr. Phelps's success in this character was so great that ...
... cast Mr. Warde for Pierre on the repetition of the tragedy . A few nights after Mr. Phelps appeared as Othello , and Mr. Macready stuck to his original intention and played Iago . Mr. Phelps's success in this character was so great that ...
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... cast for Macduff , and although he did not refuse to play it , he and his manager were at daggers drawn from that moment . His performance of Macduff , however , which he played every Monday night for some four months after- wards ...
... cast for Macduff , and although he did not refuse to play it , he and his manager were at daggers drawn from that moment . His performance of Macduff , however , which he played every Monday night for some four months after- wards ...
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... cast him for Master Walter in The Hunchback , and Jaques in As You Like It , with Ellen Tree in the principal female characters . Phelps saw plainly now the only remedy was to bide his time , which he felt would come some day , as ...
... cast him for Master Walter in The Hunchback , and Jaques in As You Like It , with Ellen Tree in the principal female characters . Phelps saw plainly now the only remedy was to bide his time , which he felt would come some day , as ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
actor admirable afterwards appeared applause artist audience Bennett Brutus Cæsar Charles Charles Kean comedy comic commenced Covent Garden criticism Daughter DEAR SIR drama Drury Lane Duke Earl Edmund Kean Edmund Phelps effect engagement Falstaff feeling FENTON genius Gentlemen GREENWOOD Hamlet Haymarket Helen Faucit Hermann Vezin honour Hoskins Iago JAMES WHITE JOHN FORSTER Julius Cæsar King Henry King John King Lear Lady of Lyons letter London Lord Macduff Macready's Malvolio Marston MESSRS mind Miss Addison Miss Cooper Miss Glyn Monday nature never occasion Othello passion performance Pericles Phelps played Phelps's piece play-goers poetical present Prince Princess's produced Queen revival Richelieu Sadler's Sadler's Wells Theatre SAMUEL PHELPS Saturday scene scenery season seen Shakespeare Sir Pertinax Macsycophant spirit stage success taste THEATRE ROYAL theatrical Timon tragedy Venice W. C. MACREADY Warner Webster week wife William Winter's Tale Wolsey young
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Seite 190 - O let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven ! Keep me in temper ; I would not be mad ! — Enter Gentleman.
Seite 130 - I had — but man is but a patched fool, if he will offer to say what methought I had. The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was.
Seite 84 - No, you unnatural hags, I will have such revenges on you both, That all the world shall — I will do such things — What they are yet I know not ; but they shall be The terrors of the earth.
Seite 272 - To move a horror skilfully, to touch a soul to the quick, to lay upon fear as much as it can bear, to wean and weary a life till it is ready to drop, and then step in with mortal instruments to take its last forfeit : this only a Webster can do. Inferior geniuses may " upon horror's head horrors accumulate,
Seite 329 - O Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
Seite 324 - Where should Othello go? — Now, how dost thou look now ? O ill-starr'd wench ! Pale as thy smock ! when we shall meet at compt, This look of thine will hurl my soul from heaven, And fiends will snatch at it. Cold, cold, my girl? Even like thy chastity. — O cursed, cursed slave ! — Whip me, ye devils, From the possession of this heavenly sight! Blow me about in winds! roast me in sulphur! "Wash me in steep-down gulfs of liquid fire!
Seite 200 - O now, for ever, Farewell the tranquil mind ! Farewell content ! Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue ! O, farewell ! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner ; and all quality. Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war ! And O, you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell ! Othello's occupation's gone ! lago.
Seite 200 - O curse of marriage, That we can call these delicate creatures ours, And not their appetites! I had rather be a toad, And live upon the vapour of a dungeon, Than keep a corner in the thing I love For others
Seite 200 - If I do prove her haggard, Though that her jesses were my dear heart-strings, I'd whistle her off, and let her down the wind, To prey at fortune.
Seite 337 - Who made a nation purer through their art. Thine is it that our drama did not die, Nor flicker down to brainless pantomime, And those gilt gauds men-children swarm to see. Farewell, Macready; moral, grave, sublime; Our Shakespeare's bland and universal eye Dwells pleased, through twice a hundred years, on thee.