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Side 151 - O, reason not the need! Our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous. Allow" not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's. Thou art a lady ; If only to go warm were gorgeous, Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st, Which scarcely keeps thee warm.
Side 67 - When, to enforce some very tender part, The right hand sleeps by instinct on the heart, His soul, of every other thought bereft, Is anxious only where to place the left...
Side 13 - I shall have more frequent mention to make of him than of the others, enacted the insipid part of Captain Harcourt ; whereby <he suffered the fate (not very uncommon for an actor who, before he is of age, begins his profession in London) of buckling to a drudgery very much below his innate excellence ; but his abilities were then in the bud, and his line undecided ; so he took, for the convenience of the theatre, any line, good, bad, or indifferent, either in tragedy, comedy, or farce — no trifling...
Side 274 - Doctor's funeral procession to be most inveterately comical, and even to outdo myself. " I did outdo myself at a furious rate ! I doubled all the faults of my first composition in my second. Instead of splashing carelessly with a light brush, I now deliberately laid it on with a trowel ; to say nothing of the flimsiness and improbability of my plot I laboured so much to sparkle in dialogue, studied so deeply for antitheses, quibbles, and puns, ' And glittering thoughts struck out at every line...
Side 33 - He was a wight of high renown, And thou art but of low degree. 'Tis pride that pulls the country down; Then take thine auld cloak about thee.
Side 24 - I continued to manage as my own. During such progression, up to the year 1796, inclusive, I scribbled many dramas for the Haymarket, and one for Drury Lane ; in almost all of which the younger Bannister (being engaged at both theatres) performed a prominent character ; so that, for most of the thirteen years I have enumerated, he was of the greatest importance to my theatrical prosperity, in my double capacity of author and manager; while I was of some service to him, by supplying him with new characters....
Side 220 - The shallow Stripling's vain attempt you'll mock, And damn him, for a Chip of the Old Block. Puffs at the bottom of Play-Bills had not, then, arrived at their perfection ; — otherwise it would have been announced, that, " the Musical Comedy of Two to One, having been received with unanimous and enthusiastick applause, would be repeated every evening, 'till further notice : Not an Order to be admitted.
Side 7 - Bensley, who always maintained an upper rank upon the stage, both in tragedy and comedy, was respectable in all the characters he undertook, in spite of a stalk and a stare — a stiffness of manner and a nasal twang of utterance — which prevented his being very popular in most of them ; but these drawbacks were advantages to him in representing the buckram nobility of Lord Mortimer in Miss Lee's play ; and for the same reason his personation of Malvolio, the starched and conceited steward in "...
Side 24 - ... one after the other, into different tracks. He had arrived at that height of London popularity, when his visits to various provincial theatres, in the summer, were productive of much more money than my scale of expense in the Haymarket, could afford to give him. As he wintered it, however, in Drury Lane, I profited, for two years more, by his acting in the pieces which I produced there. I then began to write for the rival house in Covent Garden, and this parted us as author and actor. But separating...
Side 161 - Between these points, several little islands are scattered, the most conspicuous of which are the Isle of May, and the Bass. " The May is on the northern side of the Frith ; is about a mile long, and a quarter of a mile broad ; and boasts only one constant inhabitant of the human species, the poor solitary devil who keeps up the nightly fire in the light-house...