Memoirs of Charles Lee Lewes: Containing Anecdotes, Historical and Biographical, of the English and Scottish Stages, During a Period of Forty Years, Svazek 1R. Phillips, 1805 |
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Strana 101 - ... blubbered like hungry children crying for their bread and butter ; and when the bell rang for music between the acts, the tears ran from the bassoon players...
Strana 11 - Bliss ! sublunary bliss ! — proud words, and vain ! Implicit treason to divine decree ! A bold invasion of the rights of heaven ! I clasp'd the phantoms, and I found them air.
Strana 18 - There is a design formed to rob your house this night, and cut your throat; and for that purpose there is a man disguised like a quaker, who is to pass for one Simon Pure. The gang, whereof I am one, though now resolved to rob no more...
Strana 102 - The briny pond in the pit was three feet deep, and the people that were obliged to stand upon the benches, were in that position up to their ankles in tears. An Act of Parliament against her playing will certainly pass, for she has infected the volunteers, and they sit reading The Fatal Marriage, crying and roaring all the time.
Strana 99 - From the repeated panegyrics in the impartial London newspapers, we were taught to expect the sight of a heavenly angel ; but how were we supernaturally surprised into the most awful joy, at beholding a mortal goddess. The house was crowded with hundreds more than it could hold, — with thousands of admiring spectators, that went away without a sight. This extraordinary phenomenon of tragic excellence ! this star of Melpomene ! this comet of the stage ! this sun of the firmament of the Muses ! this...
Strana 114 - but don't you think she is much finer on the stage, when adorned by art?"—" Sir," said Dr. Johnson, " on the stage art does not adorn her; nature adorns her there, and art glorifies her.
Strana 102 - ... to increase the briny pond in the pit ; the water was three feet deep, and the people that were obliged to stand upon the benches, were in that position up to their ankles in tears ! An act of parliament / against her playing any more will certainly pass,
Strana 101 - ... eyes in such plentiful showers, that they choked the finger stops, and making a spout of the instrument, poured in such torrents on the first fiddler's book, that, not seeing the overture was in two sharps, the leader of the band actually played in one flat.
Strana 101 - ... on the first fiddler's book, that not seeing the Overture was in two sharps, the leader of the band actually played in one flat. But the sobs and sighs of the groaning audience, and the noise of the corks drawn from the smelling bottles, prevented the mistake between the flats and the sharps being discovered.
Strana 99 - On Saturday Mrs. Siddons, about whom all the world has been talking, exposed her beautiful adamantine, soft, and comely person, for the first time, in the Theatre Royal, Smock Alley. The house was crowded with hundreds more than it could hold, with thousands of admiring spectators that went away without a sight...