 | James Boardman, Citizen of the world - 1833 - 452 páginas
...inherited the follies as well as the mantle of the individual honoured: — ERECTED TO THE MEMORY or GEORGE FREDERICK COOKE, BY EDMUND KEAN, OF THE THEATRE...CLAIM HIS BIRTH; BOTH HEMISPHERES PRONOUNCE HIS WORTH. This monument, not being protected by rails, is much defaced by idle scribblers. The propensity to... | |
 | James Boardman, Citizen of the world - 1833 - 462 páginas
...individual honoured : — ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF GEORGE FREDERICK COOKE, BY EDMUND KEAN, or THT. THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE, 1821. THREE KINGDOMS CLAIM...HIS BIRTH ; BOTH HEMISPHERES PRONOUNCE HIS WORTH. This monument, not being protected by rails, is much defaced by idle scribblers. The propensity to... | |
 | William Warland Clapp - 1853 - 496 páginas
...the removal of the remains, is as follows : — " Erected to the Memory of GEORGE FREDERICK COOKE, % Edmund Kean, of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, 1821....Appearance in Boston. — Biographical Sketch of Booth. — Eemarks on his Acting. — Appearance of Miss Elizabeth Powell. — George Barrett. — Announcement... | |
 | John Doran - 1865 - 486 páginas
...Kean, consists of a pedestal, surmounted by an urn, with this inscription : — " Erected to the memory of George Frederick Cooke, by Edmund Kean, of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, 1821 ;" and, beneath, this not choice, nor accurate distich : " Three kingdoms claim his birth. Both hemispheres... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1867 - 836 páginas
...monument, on which even the lapse of only forty years has done a destructive work : Erected to the Memory of George Frederick Cooke by Edmund Kean of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London. 1821. Cooke and Kean were rivals, and played against each other night after night on the London... | |
 | Charles Blake - 1868 - 316 páginas
...It is a work of durability and taste, and bears the following inscription : " Erected to the memory of GEORGE FREDERICK COOKE, BY EDMUND KEAN, OF THE...his birth, Both Hemispheres pronounce his worth." Mr. Cooke was about five feet ten inches in height, and scrupulously neat in his dress. His manners... | |
 | Frederick William Hawkins - 1869 - 454 páginas
...inscription : — 1Emtc& to tf)e JWemorg or GEO. FRED* COOKE, BY EDMUND KEAN, OF THE THEATRE ROTAL, DKURT LANE. 1821. Three kingdoms claim his birth, Both hemispheres pronounce his worth. Kean was very much pleased with this couplet ; and his delight when the monument was completed knew... | |
 | 1874 - 992 páginas
...the inscriptions on three of the sides read : South Side — " Erected to the memory of Geo. Fredk. Cooke by Edmund Kean, of the Theatre Royal, Drury...kingdoms claim his birth, both hemispheres pronounce his worth.1' North Side — "Repaired by Charles Kean, 1846." East Side— " Repaired by EA Sothern, Theatre... | |
 | 1875 - 556 páginas
...inscriptions on three of the sides read : South Side — " Erected to the memory of Geo. Fredk. Cooke byEdmund Kean, of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, ' 1821. Three...his birth, both hemispheres pronounce his worth." North Side — "Repaired by Charles Kean, 1846." East Side — " Repaired by EA Sothern, Theatre Royal,... | |
 | Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy - 1888 - 324 páginas
...pedestal supporting an urn with the following inscription — ERECTED TO THE MEMORY <§corjge jfr.eir.cndi BY EDMUND KEAN, OF THE THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE. 1821. " Three kingdoms claimed his birth; Both hemispheres pronounce his worth." The day on which the monument was placed... | |
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It is a work of durability and taste, and bears the following inscription : " Erected to the memory of GEORGE FREDERICK COOKE, BY EDMUND KEAN, OF THE THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE, 1821. Three kingdoms claim his birth, Both Hemispheres pronounce his worth. 
