Clowns and PantomimesConstable, 1925 - 343 pagini |
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acrobat acted actors Adrien appeared Astley's audience ballet Bartholomew Fair became burlesque called century changed character Charlie Chaplin Christmas circus clown clownship Columbine comedians comedy comic costume Covent Garden Dan Leno dance dancer Deburau delight Devil Dibdin dragon drama dressed Drury Lane Ellar emotion English entertainment eyes face Fair fairy fashion Faustus fool French Garrick George giant Grimaldi Grock hand Harle Harlequin Harlequinade Harris Haymarket head hero horse Hôtel de Bourgogne humour imitation Italian joke King ladies laugh laughter legs lequin Lincoln's Inn Fields London Lord magic manager mask Merry mime mirth Mother Goose motley music-hall night opera Pantaloon panto pantomime Paris Payne performance piece Pierrot play popular principal boy revival Rich round Royal Sadler's Scaramouche scene Shakespeare singing song spectacle stage story sword tale theatre took transformation tricks turn Wettach woman words
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Pagina 275 - Think what you would have been now, if, instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history!
Pagina 42 - How monie hearts this day converts O' sinners and o' lasses ! Their hearts o' stane, gin night, are gane As saft as ony flesh is. There's some are f'ou o...
Pagina 84 - Be of your patron's mind, whate'er he says ; Sleep very much ; think little ; and talk less ; Mind neither good nor bad, nor right nor wrong, But eat your pudding, slave; and hold your tongue.
Pagina 113 - Anderson. Like vaulting ambition, I have overleaped myself, and pay the penalty in an advanced old age. If I have now any aptitude for tumbling, it is through bodily infirmity, for I am worse on my feet than I used to be on my head. It is four years since I jumped my last jump — filched my last oyster — boiled my last sausage — and set in for retirement.
Pagina 65 - True fops help nature's work, and go to school, To file and finish God Almighty's fool. Yet none Sir Fopling him, or him can call ; 1s He's knight o' the shire, and represents ye all. From each he meets he culls whate'er he can ; Legion's his name, a people in a man. His bulky folly gathers as it goes, And, rolling o'er you, like a snowball grows. 20 His various modes from various fathers follow ; One taught the toss, and one the new French wallow : His swordknot this, his cravat that design'd ;...
Pagina 70 - Their predecessors were contented to make serving-men only their stage-fools: but these rogues must have gentlemen, with a pox to 'em, nay, knights; and, indeed, you shall hardly see a fool upon the stage but he's a knight...
Pagina 68 - Some talk of things of state, of puling stuff; There's nothing in a play to* a clown, if he Have the grace to hit on't ; that's the thing indeed : The king shows well, but he sets off the king.
Pagina 280 - Observe, the audience is in pain, While Punch is hid behind the scene; But when they hear his rusty voice, With what impatience they rejoice! And then they value not two straws How Solomon decides the cause, Which the true mother, which Pretender...
Pagina 269 - The next play to which I was taken was the Lady of the Manor, of which, with the exception of some scenery, very faint traces are left in my memory. It was followed by a pantomime, called Lun's Ghost — a satiric touch, I apprehend, upon Rich, not long since dead — but to my apprehension (too sincere for satire), Lun was as remote a piece of antiquity as Lud — the father of a line of Harlequins — transmitting his dagger of lath (the wooden sceptre) through countless ages.
Pagina 84 - I must observe, that there is a set of merry drolls, whom the common people of all countries admire, and seem to love so well,