The Exhibition Speaker: Containing Farces, Dialogues, and Tableaux : with Exercises for Declamation in Prose and Verse, Also a Treatise on Oratory and Elocution, Hints on Dramatic Characters, Costumes, Position on the Stage, Making Up, Etc., Etc. : with IllustrationsSheldon, Blakeman & Company, 1856 - 268 páginas |
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... DAME CONTENT . GEORGE , Farmer's son . 1st Boy . 2d Boy . JOHN . ELLEN , the Farmer's daughter . Boys , Girls , etc. COSTUMES , MODERN . ACT I. * SCENE . A kitchen in Farmer Content's house . Supper table set : on one side is seated the ...
... DAME CONTENT . GEORGE , Farmer's son . 1st Boy . 2d Boy . JOHN . ELLEN , the Farmer's daughter . Boys , Girls , etc. COSTUMES , MODERN . ACT I. * SCENE . A kitchen in Farmer Content's house . Supper table set : on one side is seated the ...
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... Dame Content . And , George , don't , as you value the blessings of Heaven , forget the lessons your mother has taught you . You have been a child of many prayers , forget not that . George . I will not , mother : Enter JOHN , L. John ...
... Dame Content . And , George , don't , as you value the blessings of Heaven , forget the lessons your mother has taught you . You have been a child of many prayers , forget not that . George . I will not , mother : Enter JOHN , L. John ...
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... Dame . ( L. ) I hope George will continue virtuous , for the sake of his old mother . Far . ( R. C. ) And for the sake of that feeling which accompanies the practice of virtue . George , ( R. ) But why , father , do you fear for me ? I ...
... Dame . ( L. ) I hope George will continue virtuous , for the sake of his old mother . Far . ( R. C. ) And for the sake of that feeling which accompanies the practice of virtue . George , ( R. ) But why , father , do you fear for me ? I ...
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... Dame . Oh , I wish you would give up this idea , George , Now that you are about to say " farewell , " I feel how hard it is for a mother to part from her child . But you will not , I am sure , forget us , you will write often tell us ...
... Dame . Oh , I wish you would give up this idea , George , Now that you are about to say " farewell , " I feel how hard it is for a mother to part from her child . But you will not , I am sure , forget us , you will write often tell us ...
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... Dame kneels one side of him , R. , Ellen the other , L. ) ACT II . SCENE . Kitchen in Farmer Content's house as before ; work- table , and Basket , c .; chairs , etc. Farmer and Dame discovered , at Table . Far . ( L. ) Just one year ...
... Dame kneels one side of him , R. , Ellen the other , L. ) ACT II . SCENE . Kitchen in Farmer Content's house as before ; work- table , and Basket , c .; chairs , etc. Farmer and Dame discovered , at Table . Far . ( L. ) Just one year ...
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Página 136 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.
Página 136 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Página 216 - Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave. A king sate on the rocky brow Which looks o'er sea-born Salamis ; And ships, by thousands, lay below, And men in nations ; — all were his ! He counted them at break of day — And when the sun set where were they ? And where are they?
Página 135 - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus ; but use all gently ; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Página 133 - May sweep to my revenge. Ghost. I find thee apt ; And duller shouldst thou be than the fat weed That roots itself in ease on Lethe wharf, Wouldst thou not stir in this.
Página 166 - t. It breaks my chain. I held some slack allegiance till this hour; But now my sword's my own. Smile on, my lords ! I scorn to count what feelings, withered hopes. Strong provocations, bitter, burning wrongs, I have within my heart's hot cells shut up, To leave you in your lazy dignities.
Página 217 - You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet, Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone? Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the manlier one?
Página 216 - Islands of the Blest'. The mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looks on the sea. And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free, For standing on the Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave.
Página 217 - Must we but blush? Our fathers bled. Earth ! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead ! Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae ! What, silent still?
Página 191 - It is to that Union we owe our safety at home and our consideration and dignity abroad. It is to that Union that we are chiefly indebted for whatever makes us most proud of our country. That Union we reached only by the discipline of our virtues in the severe school of adversity. It had its origin in the necessities of disordered finance, prostrate commerce, and ruined credit.