Diprose's Book of the Stage and the Players

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Diprose & Bateman, 1877 - 288 pages
 

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Page 117 - A Prologue to introduce the first Woman that came to act on the Stage, in the Tragedy called the Moor of Venice...
Page 84 - In fancied scenes, as in life's real plan, He could not, for a moment, sink the man. In whate'er cast his character was laid, Self still, like oil, upon the surface play'd. Nature, in spite of all his skill, crept in : Horatio, Dorax, Falstaff, — still 'twas Quin.
Page 232 - The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.
Page 236 - If I were a woman, I would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleased me, complexions that liked me, and breaths that I defied not...
Page 236 - So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber; and there were present the Picninnies, and the Joblillies, and the...
Page 117 - Our women are defective, and so sized, You'd think they were some of the guard disguised ; For, to speak truth, men act, that are between Forty and fifty, wenches of fifteen ; With bone so large, and nerve so incompliant, When you call " Desdemona,
Page 128 - Perhaps your hearts, when years have glided by, And past emotions wake a fleeting sigh, May think on her whose lips have...
Page 231 - The best actors in the world, either for tragedy, comedy, history, pastoral, pastoral-comical, historicalpastoral, tragical-historical, tragical-comical-historicalpastoral, scene individable, or poem unlimited : Seneca cannot be too heavy, nor Plautus too light.
Page 138 - Bring with thee airs from heaven, or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked, or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee, Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane: O, answer me: Let me not burst in ignorance!

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