The life of Edmund Kean [by B.W. Procter]. |
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... heart . Although it show itself upon the boards of a theatre , in a painted face and grotesque costume , it is itself essentially natural ; being wrought out and compounded of the passions and actions . and characters of men . If it ...
... heart . Although it show itself upon the boards of a theatre , in a painted face and grotesque costume , it is itself essentially natural ; being wrought out and compounded of the passions and actions . and characters of men . If it ...
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... the blood that ran racing through his veins , had no right to claim any alliance with that patrician stream , which circled in the hearts of " all the Howards . " CHAPTER III . HIS RECITATIONS IN LONDON - GOES TO EDMUND KEAN . 45.
... the blood that ran racing through his veins , had no right to claim any alliance with that patrician stream , which circled in the hearts of " all the Howards . " CHAPTER III . HIS RECITATIONS IN LONDON - GOES TO EDMUND KEAN . 45.
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... hearts and money of the unenlightened ; and reaping just sufficient from each exhibi- tion to drive famine from the door . In these encampments , Kean , or rather " Mas- ter Carey , " as he still continued to be called , was wont to ...
... hearts and money of the unenlightened ; and reaping just sufficient from each exhibi- tion to drive famine from the door . In these encampments , Kean , or rather " Mas- ter Carey , " as he still continued to be called , was wont to ...
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... heart into the lap of a certain Miss Maria Germain , who was at that time apprenticed to his aunt , Mrs. Price . Mrs. Price fomented this second love - fever . She was , in fact , very desirous that he should marry Maria ; but there was ...
... heart into the lap of a certain Miss Maria Germain , who was at that time apprenticed to his aunt , Mrs. Price . Mrs. Price fomented this second love - fever . She was , in fact , very desirous that he should marry Maria ; but there was ...
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... Heart - Ache " ( a play implying hope , at least ) , and Kean was to enact Young Rapid . The bills were printed and distributed with more than ordi- nary diligence ; the doors were unclosed , the lamps lighted , the curtain drawn up ...
... Heart - Ache " ( a play implying hope , at least ) , and Kean was to enact Young Rapid . The bills were printed and distributed with more than ordi- nary diligence ; the doors were unclosed , the lamps lighted , the curtain drawn up ...
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Página 95 - My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd, so sanded ; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-knee'd, and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each.
Página 105 - Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking-off...
Página 105 - Duncan is in his grave ; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well; Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing, Can touch him further.
Página xxi - A farther excellence in Betterton, was, that he could vary his spirit to the different characters he acted. Those wild impatient starts, that fierce and flashing fire, which he threw into Hotspur, never came from the unruffled temper of his Brutus; (for I have, more than once seen a Brutus as warm as Hotspur) when the Betterton Brutus was...
Página xxxviii - With respect to the extravagance of actors, as a traditional character, it is not to be wondered at. They live from hand to mouth ; they plunge from want into luxury ; they have no means of making money breed ; and all professions that do not live by turning money into money, or have not a certainty of accumulating it iu the end by parsimony, spend it.
Página 32 - I say to you ? Should I not say, " Hath a dog money ? is it possible, 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.
Página 266 - What was my astonishment, to see him, as the scene opened, standing in the centre of the stage, his arms crossed, and his whole attitude one of thoughtful solemnity. His dress was splendid ; and thunders of applause greeted him from all parts of the house. To display the one, and give time for the other, were the objects for which he stood fixed for several minutes, and sacrificed the sense of the situation. He spoke ; but what a speech ! The one I wrote, consisted of eight or nine lines ; his, was...
Página xli - It were for me To throw my sceptre at the injurious gods ; To tell them that this world did equal theirs Till they had stol'n our jewel.
Página 236 - Let us be no longer fools. Come home ; forget and forgive. If I have erred, it was my head, not my heart, and most severely have I suffered for it. My future life shall be employed in contributing to your happiness ; and you, I trust, will return that feeling by a total obliteration of the past. " Your wild but really affectionate husband, '"EDMUND KEAN.
Página 252 - SIR, I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, announcing the transmission of a valuable sword, which you teach me to receive as a token of the flattering estimation, in which my professional exertions, in the northern capital, are held by yourself, and a portion of that public, to whose fostering indulgence I am already bound in lasting gratitude. To those unknown patrons, in whose name...