The Actor: A Treatise on the Art of Playing. Interspersed with Theatrical Anecdotes, Critical Remarks on Plays, and Occasional Observations on Audiences |
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... pleas'd to take a little more pains about her mind , and a little lefs about her face , for the future , we ' fhall venture to prophecy to her , That when that face ( as one time it will be ) is not worth a farthing , E 3 farthing ...
... pleas'd to take a little more pains about her mind , and a little lefs about her face , for the future , we ' fhall venture to prophecy to her , That when that face ( as one time it will be ) is not worth a farthing , E 3 farthing ...
Page 86
... pleas'd , but excell'd to the very laft ; who at an age more than equal to that of Bowman , never appear'd upon the stage , without being the greatest player on it ; and who has left us to feek , what we shall perhaps never find , a ...
... pleas'd , but excell'd to the very laft ; who at an age more than equal to that of Bowman , never appear'd upon the stage , without being the greatest player on it ; and who has left us to feek , what we shall perhaps never find , a ...
Page 93
... pleas'd , as when we can discover that in diverting us , they are heartily entertaining themselves . ' Tis only by thoroughly relishing the comedy in their own breasts that they can ever reprefent it feelingly to us , or acquire our ...
... pleas'd , as when we can discover that in diverting us , they are heartily entertaining themselves . ' Tis only by thoroughly relishing the comedy in their own breasts that they can ever reprefent it feelingly to us , or acquire our ...
Page 148
... to do . We have feen an actress of fifty , who , whenever fhe pleas'd , was to all appearance barely fixteen . The men have but very feldom been known to Have this advantage ; and among the women ' tis have 14 The ACTOR .
... to do . We have feen an actress of fifty , who , whenever fhe pleas'd , was to all appearance barely fixteen . The men have but very feldom been known to Have this advantage ; and among the women ' tis have 14 The ACTOR .
Page 152
... pleas'd us in them , and long may do fo ; a requifite affurance is not wanting in either this player nor his rival in these characters ; perhaps it would be a point not easily determined which of them has the most of it ; but the ...
... pleas'd us in them , and long may do fo ; a requifite affurance is not wanting in either this player nor his rival in these characters ; perhaps it would be a point not easily determined which of them has the most of it ; but the ...
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Page 146 - Put out the light, and then put out the light. If I quench thee, thou flaming minister, I can again thy former light restore, Should I repent me; but once put out thy light, Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature, I know not where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume.
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