The Drama: Or, Theatrical Pocket Magazine, Volumen1T. and J. Elvey., 1821 Wholly dedicated to the stage, and containing original dramatic biography, essays, criticisms, poetry, reviews ... with occasional notices of the country theatres, the whole forming a complete critical and biographical illustration of the British stage. |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 53
Página 2
... appearance as Shylock , on the 26th of Janu- ary 1814. It was not the first time the writer of this sketch had seen Mr. KEAN , and it was with no small gratification he found the expressions of approbation from the audience encreasing ...
... appearance as Shylock , on the 26th of Janu- ary 1814. It was not the first time the writer of this sketch had seen Mr. KEAN , and it was with no small gratification he found the expressions of approbation from the audience encreasing ...
Página 7
... appearance on the metropolitan boards , Characters which we trust ' ere long to see him again reviving to the support of our stage , and the gratifica- tion of his innumerous admirers . Jan. 26 , -Shylock . Feb. 12 , Richard III . Mar ...
... appearance on the metropolitan boards , Characters which we trust ' ere long to see him again reviving to the support of our stage , and the gratifica- tion of his innumerous admirers . Jan. 26 , -Shylock . Feb. 12 , Richard III . Mar ...
Página 45
... appearance in the charac- ter of Zelinda , hitherto sustained by that " child of En- glish melody " Miss STEPHENS , and it was an undertaking of no small hazard . Miss H. , however , by the trial , has increased her reputation . The ...
... appearance in the charac- ter of Zelinda , hitherto sustained by that " child of En- glish melody " Miss STEPHENS , and it was an undertaking of no small hazard . Miss H. , however , by the trial , has increased her reputation . The ...
Página 46
... appearance ( in Comedy ) as Lady Townley , and was well received , but she evidently wants more study : she has a just conception of the charac- ter as a whole , and bestows on it all the grace and elegance that can be desired , but ...
... appearance ( in Comedy ) as Lady Townley , and was well received , but she evidently wants more study : she has a just conception of the charac- ter as a whole , and bestows on it all the grace and elegance that can be desired , but ...
Página 54
... appearance with pleasure , and gradually induced both audience and manager to sus- pect that his talents were adapted to a wider field ; and though some may perhaps regret that he has been so long debarred from his present eminence ...
... appearance with pleasure , and gradually induced both audience and manager to sus- pect that his talents were adapted to a wider field ; and though some may perhaps regret that he has been so long debarred from his present eminence ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
acting actor Adel Adelaide admirable Alonzo appearance applause audience bard beautiful called celebrated character CHARLES Cobourg comedy comic Covent Garden Covent Garden Theatre Dæmon death DRAMA Duke effect English Ethelwald excellent exhibited farce father favour favourite feeling French GARRICK genius hand hath Haymarket HAYMARKET THEATRE heart Henry Henry VI honour humour KEAN KEMBLE King King's Theatre lady London Lord Lord Byron Macbeth MAJESTY manner merit Mid Lothian mind murder nature never night o'er opera original Othello OXBERRY passion performance PERKIN WARBECK person piece play plot poet present Prince produced proprietors Queen racter Ravenstone readers received representation RICHARD RICHARD III Rob Roy scene season SHAKSPEARE SHAKSPEARE'S shew songs soul spirit stage style success SURREY THEATRE talents taste theatre theatrical thee thou tion tragedy voice whole wife writer written young
Pasajes populares
Página 171 - And all amid them stood the tree of life, High eminent, blooming ambrosial fruit Of vegetable gold; and next to life Our death the tree of knowledge grew fast by, Knowledge of good bought dear by knowing ill.
Página 24 - Caesar carelessly but nod on him. He had a fever when he was in Spain, And when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did shake : — 'tis true, this god did shake.
Página 237 - I have heard That guilty creatures sitting at a play Have by the very cunning of the scene Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaimed their malefactions ; For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.
Página 390 - Shakespeare was inspiration indeed ; he is not so much an imitator as an instrument of Nature ; and it is not so just to say that he speaks from her as that she speaks through him.
Página 385 - WHEN Learning's triumph o'er her barbarous foes First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakspeare rose; Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagined new : Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.
Página 81 - See, what a grace was seated on this brow; Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury, New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; A combination, and a form, indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.
Página 110 - Not what we ail'd, yet something we did ail ; And yet were well, and yet we were not well, And what was our disease we could not tell. Then would we kiss, then sigh, then look. And thus In that first garden of our simpleness We spent our childhood : but when years began To reap the fruit of knowledge, ah, how then Would she with graver looks, with sweet stern brow, Check my presumption and my forwardness ; Yet still would give me flowers, still would me show What she would have me, yet not have me...
Página 117 - I speak to Time and to Eternity, Of which I grow a portion, not to man. Ye elements ! in which to be resolved I hasten, let my voice be as a spirit Upon you ! Ye blue waves ! which bore my banner, Ye winds ! which...
Página 328 - The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, the important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome.
Página 182 - The house is shown by a garrulous old lady in a frosty red face, lighted up by a cold blue anxious eye, and garnished with artificial locks of flaxen hair, curling from under an exceedingly dirty cap.