The Stage: Both Before and Behind the Curtain: From "observations Taken on the Spot.", Bind 2R. Bentley, 1840 |
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66 MY DEAR Act of Parliament actor Alfred Bunn amongst announced appear audience Bartley Bulwer character Charles Kean Charles Kemble circumstances Colman committee Covent Garden Theatre DEAR SIR death Ditto drama Drury Lane Theatre Elliston engagement entertainment farce favour feeling fees Fidelio Forrest genius gentlemen give honour Isoline Jewess Joanna Baillie Jules Kean Kemble's La Sonnambula labour lessee letter license London Lord Chamberlain lordship Macready Macready's Madame Malibran Maid of Artois Majesty Malibran de Beriot manager ment Monsieur de Beriot morning never night nightly average novelty obedient servant occasion offer opera opinion paid pantomime party patent theatres performance person piece possessed present produced proprietors reader receipt received regret reply respect Royal Drury Lane scene season Serjeant Talfourd Shakspeare sing song Sonnambula stage subjoined talent Theatre Royal Drury theatrical tion Tipperary tragedy week wish
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Side 226 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No. Doth he hear it? No. Is it insensible then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living ? No. Why? Detraction will not suffer it :— therefore I'll none of it : Honour is a mere scutcheon, and so ends my catechism.
Side 266 - Ah ! let not Censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice ; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live.
Side 31 - Why should that name be sounded more than yours ? Write them together, yours is as fair a name; Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well; Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with 'em, Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar.
Side 242 - The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils ; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.
Side 190 - ... interlude, tragedy, comedy, opera, play, farce or other entertainment of the stage...
Side 285 - Young man, you have not only pleased the public, but you have pleased me; and as a slight token of my regard and good wishes, I beg your acceptance of a small piece of plate.
Side 219 - D'avenant, his heirs or assigns, from time to time, to act plays and entertainments of the stage, of all sorts, peaceably and quietly, without the impeachment or impediment of any person or persons whatsoever, for the honest recreation of such as shall desire to see the same.
Side 136 - and other poems, now the Honourable Mrs. Norton. — E.] (3) [Lord Byron entertained a high 'opinion of George Colman's convivial powers — " If I had," he says, " to choose, and could not have both at a time, I should say, ' Let me begin the evening with Sheridan, and finish it with Colman.
Side 189 - Hire shall act or present, or cause to be acted or presented, any Stage Play, or any Act, Scene, or Part thereof, or any Prologue or Epilogue, or any Part thereof, contrary to such Prohibition as aforesaid...
Side 226 - Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery, then? No. What is honour? A word. What is in that word honour? What is that honour? Air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? He that died o