Edwin Booth and His Contemporaries, Volum 3Brander Matthews, Laurence Hutton Page, 1900 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 19 - A cur can lend three thousand ducats ? " or Shall I bend low, and in a bondman's key, With 'bated breath, and whispering humbleness, Say this, — " Fair, sir, you spit on me on Wednesday last ; You spurned me such a day ; another time You called me — dog ; and for these courtesies I'll lend you thus much moneys.
Pàgina 118 - Apostate," was sure to draw a crowded house. (Remember heavy pieces were much more in demand those days than now. ) He was also unapproachably grand in Sir Giles Overreach, in " A New Way to Pay Old Debts," and the principal character in "The Iron Chest.
Pàgina 238 - O PRECIOUS evenings! all too swiftly sped! Leaving us heirs to amplest heritages Of all the best thoughts of the greatest sages, And giving tongues unto the silent dead!
Pàgina 15 - Before the piece was brought out, I had a number of children brought to me, that I might choose a Cupid. One struck me, with a fine pair of black eyes, who seemed by his looks and little gestures to be most anxious to be chosen as the representative of the God of Love ; I chose him, and little then did I imagine that my little Cupid would eventually become a great actor ; the then little urchin, was neither more nor less than Edmund Kean.
Pàgina 29 - On the demise of a person of eminence, it is confidently averred that he had a hand "open as day to melting charity," and that "take him for all in all, we ne'er shall look upon his like again.
Pàgina 247 - I have never since heard without a thrill of anything but comical association ; " never mind 'em ! don't think of 'em any more than if they were so many rows of cabbages!" "Nurse!" called my mother, and on waddled Mrs. Davenport, and, turning back, called in her turn, "Juliet!" My aunt gave me an impulse forward, and I ran straight across the stage, stunned with the tremendous shout that greeted me, my eyes covered with mist, and the green baize flooring of the stage feeling as if it rose up against...
Pàgina 34 - Cato everybody is consistently eloquent about everything. There are many causes for the growth -of naturalism in dramatic art, and amongst them we should remember the improvement in the mechanism of the stage. For instance, there has been a remarkable development in stagelighting. In old pictures you will observe the actors constantly standing in a line, because the oil-lamps of those days gave such an indifferent illumination that everybody tried to get into what was called the focus — the ' blaze...
Pàgina 248 - I did not return into myself till all was over, and amid a tumultuous storm of applause, congratulation, tears, embraces, and a general joyous explosion of unutterable relief at the fortunate termination of my attempt, we went home. And so my life was determined, and I devoted myself to an avocation which I never liked or honored, and about the very nature of which I have never been able to come to any decided opinion. It is in vain that the undoubted specific gifts of great actors and actresses...
Pàgina 25 - Farewell" ran on the same tones and semitones, had the same rests and breaks, the same forte and piano, the same crescendo and diminuendo, night after night, as if he spoke it from a musical score.
Pàgina 100 - The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes — or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two — is gone.