Memoirs of His Own Life, Volumul 2author, 1790 |
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Pagina 6
Tate Wilkinson. tentive civility turns out , from whence there can be no reason at the time to expect an advantage . My good behaviour , when I was thirteen or four- teen years old to this Mrs. Wier , grew into a lafting efteem which ...
Tate Wilkinson. tentive civility turns out , from whence there can be no reason at the time to expect an advantage . My good behaviour , when I was thirteen or four- teen years old to this Mrs. Wier , grew into a lafting efteem which ...
Pagina 8
... infinite pains and difficulty , that fatisfaction was obtained - Lo ! How the great man leffen'd to my view . The reason is demonftrative , true perfection is feldom found 8 MEMOIRS OF freedom and expreffion to the actor, even in the ...
... infinite pains and difficulty , that fatisfaction was obtained - Lo ! How the great man leffen'd to my view . The reason is demonftrative , true perfection is feldom found 8 MEMOIRS OF freedom and expreffion to the actor, even in the ...
Pagina 9
Tate Wilkinson. The reason is demonftrative , true perfection is feldom found in Nature's works , fo many requi- fites being neceffary to the combination , renders it as difficult to find as ... reason is demonftrative, true perfection is ...
Tate Wilkinson. The reason is demonftrative , true perfection is feldom found in Nature's works , fo many requi- fites being neceffary to the combination , renders it as difficult to find as ... reason is demonftrative, true perfection is ...
Pagina 18
... reasons before hinted at ; but when the curtain was down he went on and affured the audience he was much honoured by their approbation , and with their permiffion would the next night repeat the fame piece again - which they had ...
... reasons before hinted at ; but when the curtain was down he went on and affured the audience he was much honoured by their approbation , and with their permiffion would the next night repeat the fame piece again - which they had ...
Pagina 21
... reason , as a man of wit , for Foote's fuperiority on fuch convivial meetings was , that he , like the American felt bold , knew his fuperiority which was raised by the perfect knowledge of Gar- rick's TATE WILKINSON . 21.
... reason , as a man of wit , for Foote's fuperiority on fuch convivial meetings was , that he , like the American felt bold , knew his fuperiority which was raised by the perfect knowledge of Gar- rick's TATE WILKINSON . 21.
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Pagina 199 - I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory ; But far beyond my depth ; my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary, and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Pagina 39 - I should take it, for it cannot be But I am pigeon-liver'd, and lack gall To make oppression bitter, or ere this I should have fatted all the region kites With this slave's offal.
Pagina 39 - Why, what an ass am I! This is most brave, That I, the son of a dear father murdered, Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell, Must like a whore unpack my heart with words, And fall a-cursing like a very drab, A scullion!
Pagina 153 - For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day ; But he who is in battle slain Can never rise and fight again.
Pagina 199 - This is the state of man : To-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope ; to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him : The third day, comes a frost, a killing frost; And, — when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Pagina 23 - Gibber thought the new player " well enough," but Foote, with the malice that was natural to him, remarked, " Yes, the hound has something clever, but if his excellence was to be examined, he would not be found in any part equal to Colley Gibber's Sir John Brute, Lord Foppington, Sir Courtly Nice, or Justice Shallow.
Pagina 183 - A pleafant fellow. —Who were your parents ? Shift. I was produced, Sir, by a left-handed marriage, in the language of the news-papers, between an illuftrious lamp-lighter and an eminent itinerant cat and dog butcher. — Cat's meat, and dog's meat 1 dare fay, you have heard my mother, Sir.
Pagina 183 - Here, firrah, light me a-crofs the kennel. ——I hope your honour will remember poor Jack. You ragged rafcal, I have no halfpence I'll pay you the next time I fee you. But, lack-a-day, fir, that time I faw as feldom as his tradefmen.
Pagina 94 - O, what an infernal limb of an actress you'll make ! What ! not know the meaning of prentice ! Why prentice, ma'am, is the plural of prentices !" The complaints of this original to the Dublin stage-manager upon her daughter's wrongs, are equally comic. " Sir, you have not used my daughter well, 'pon my sould, and Barry has left her in ' Love's Last Shift
Pagina 28 - ... why will you take a liberty with these gentlemen the players, and without my consent ? you never consulted or told me you were to take off, as you call it ; hey, why now, I never take such liberties — indeed I once did it, but I gave up such dd impudence.