Cumberland's British Theatre: With Remarks, Biographical & Critical. Printed from the Acting Copies, as Performed at the Theatres Royal, London..., Volume 20J. Cumberland, 1828 |
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... never serenaded a lady , in or out of trousers . It is a pernicious custom for a singer , out of his own vanity and caprice , to introduce songs that belong not to the piece . What can be more absurd than to hear a stiff- necked dandy ...
... never serenaded a lady , in or out of trousers . It is a pernicious custom for a singer , out of his own vanity and caprice , to introduce songs that belong not to the piece . What can be more absurd than to hear a stiff- necked dandy ...
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... subjects in his whole province of Servia ; and , as for your highness - always talking of your highness - your highness's name is never out of our " mouths . By the by , remember his name is THE SIEGE OF BELGRADE. ...
... subjects in his whole province of Servia ; and , as for your highness - always talking of your highness - your highness's name is never out of our " mouths . By the by , remember his name is THE SIEGE OF BELGRADE. ...
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... never heard of it before . So , says the Seraskier to me , my dear Yuseph Ben Yacoul Ben Mustapha , at the same time most graciously laughing at me , with great condescension- [ Flourish of drums and trumpets without , L. But here he ...
... never heard of it before . So , says the Seraskier to me , my dear Yuseph Ben Yacoul Ben Mustapha , at the same time most graciously laughing at me , with great condescension- [ Flourish of drums and trumpets without , L. But here he ...
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... never know how to make a de- cision . Pet . Why then , sir , how can you decide ? Yus . Why , I decide that you are both in the wrong . I fancy that decision will hold you good in most quarrels -I don't believe that my friend , the ...
... never know how to make a de- cision . Pet . Why then , sir , how can you decide ? Yus . Why , I decide that you are both in the wrong . I fancy that decision will hold you good in most quarrels -I don't believe that my friend , the ...
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... never - failing hope of faithful love . [ Exeunt , L. SCENE V. - The Seraskier's Tent , open , with curtains at the back - a carpet , and four cushions - a table , L.- LILLA discovered seated on a cushion . AIR . - LILLA . Blithe as the ...
... never - failing hope of faithful love . [ Exeunt , L. SCENE V. - The Seraskier's Tent , open , with curtains at the back - a carpet , and four cushions - a table , L.- LILLA discovered seated on a cushion . AIR . - LILLA . Blithe as the ...
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Popular passages
Page 24 - Therefore the winds, piping to us in vain, As in revenge, have suck'd up from the sea Contagious fogs ; which falling in the land Have every pelting river made so proud That they have overborne their continents : The ox hath therefore stretch'd his yoke in vain, The ploughman lost his sweat, and the green corn Hath rotted ere his youth attain'da beard ; The fold stands empty in the drowned field, And crows are fatted with the murrain flock...
Page 42 - So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted ; But yet a union in partition, Two lovely berries moulded on one stem : So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart ; Two of the first, like coats in heraldry, Due but to one, and crowned with one crest.
Page 56 - Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy ; Or, in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush suppos'da bear ! Hip.
Page 15 - Thrice blessed they, that master so their blood, To undergo such maiden pilgrimage : But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd, Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives, and dies, in single blessedness.
Page 18 - Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity : Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind ; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind...
Page 65 - Now the hungry lion roars, And the wolf behowls the moon ; Whilst the heavy ploughman snores, All with weary task fordone. Now the wasted brands do glow, Whilst the screech-owl, screeching loud, Puts the wretch that lies in woe In remembrance of a shroud.
Page 25 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Page 27 - I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows, Where ox-lips and the nodding violet grows ; Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine. With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine...
Page 56 - Lovers, and madmen, have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact :< One sees more devils than vast hell can hold ; That is, the madman : the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt...
Page 42 - All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence ? We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key ; As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate.