The Life and Life-work of Samuel PhelpsSampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1886 - 436 Seiten |
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... success , and possibly this will be added to the category . But the intimate relations long subsisting between Mr. May Phelps and his dis- tinguished uncle , and the more than ordinary interest shared by his coadjutor in all things ...
... success , and possibly this will be added to the category . But the intimate relations long subsisting between Mr. May Phelps and his dis- tinguished uncle , and the more than ordinary interest shared by his coadjutor in all things ...
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... He was as pleased with his achievements in this way as he was with his success on the stage . His gardener for the greater part of this period was an B Irishman , who had held the same position at William PREFACE INTRODUCTION.
... He was as pleased with his achievements in this way as he was with his success on the stage . His gardener for the greater part of this period was an B Irishman , who had held the same position at William PREFACE INTRODUCTION.
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... success many of the best characters of the elder Farren , such as Lord Ogleby , Sir Peter Teazle , and Nicholas Flam ; of Dowton , such as Old Dornton , Job Thornbury , and Dr. Cantwell ; of Elliston and Charles Kemble , such as Leon ...
... success many of the best characters of the elder Farren , such as Lord Ogleby , Sir Peter Teazle , and Nicholas Flam ; of Dowton , such as Old Dornton , Job Thornbury , and Dr. Cantwell ; of Elliston and Charles Kemble , such as Leon ...
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... success ; for he was then , as at all times , a bad hand at making a bargain . When he agreed to share , which he did at first , the receipts were small ; and after- wards , when he was content to receive a certain sum , they rose ...
... success ; for he was then , as at all times , a bad hand at making a bargain . When he agreed to share , which he did at first , the receipts were small ; and after- wards , when he was content to receive a certain sum , they rose ...
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... success . His then partner , Thomas Longden Greenwood , a man of the highest integrity and honour , worked as diligently for the good of Sadler's Wells in his capacity of business manager as Mr. Phelps did as the stage manager . The ...
... success . His then partner , Thomas Longden Greenwood , a man of the highest integrity and honour , worked as diligently for the good of Sadler's Wells in his capacity of business manager as Mr. Phelps did as the stage manager . The ...
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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
Beliebte Passagen
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.