The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners : with Strictures on Their Epitome, the Stage, Band 12Proprietors., 1801 |
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... actress , surpassed any thing I ever saw for the extravagance of her humours . She never sung above one night in three , from a fever upon her temper ; and never would act at all when Ricciarelli , the first man , was to be in dialogue ...
... actress , surpassed any thing I ever saw for the extravagance of her humours . She never sung above one night in three , from a fever upon her temper ; and never would act at all when Ricciarelli , the first man , was to be in dialogue ...
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... actresses in general , to pay the most scrupulous attention to dress . Dress adds considerably to the illusion of the spectators ; and , when it is appropriate , it gives a degree of confi dence to the actor . - That it should be ...
... actresses in general , to pay the most scrupulous attention to dress . Dress adds considerably to the illusion of the spectators ; and , when it is appropriate , it gives a degree of confi dence to the actor . - That it should be ...
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... actresses to avoid the fashions of the day . The best and only mode proper to be followed , is to adopt , as near as you can , that of the costume of the character you are performing . An actress , in arranging her dress , should ...
... actresses to avoid the fashions of the day . The best and only mode proper to be followed , is to adopt , as near as you can , that of the costume of the character you are performing . An actress , in arranging her dress , should ...
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... actress of great merit , and she is in high favour with the town , but even she is not enabled to display her powers to advantage , for we have not one male performer capable of sustaining , along with her , the heroic parts of tragedy ...
... actress of great merit , and she is in high favour with the town , but even she is not enabled to display her powers to advantage , for we have not one male performer capable of sustaining , along with her , the heroic parts of tragedy ...
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... Actresses . - Mesd . Contat ; Emilie Contat ; Suin ; Volnais ; Lachassaigne ; Hopkins ; Gros , a debûtant between 15 and 16 ... actress . An interesting figure , more agreeable , however , than thea- trical , a sweet and flexible voice ...
... Actresses . - Mesd . Contat ; Emilie Contat ; Suin ; Volnais ; Lachassaigne ; Hopkins ; Gros , a debûtant between 15 and 16 ... actress . An interesting figure , more agreeable , however , than thea- trical , a sweet and flexible voice ...
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Seite 43 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
Seite 165 - I see a column of slow-rising smoke O'ertop the lofty wood that skirts the wild. A vagabond and useless tribe there eat Their miserable meal. A kettle, slung Between two poles upon a stick transverse, Receives the morsel ; flesh obscene of dog, Or vermin, or, at best, of cock purloined From his accustomed perch.
Seite 390 - Awake, /Eolian lyre, awake, And give to rapture all thy trembling strings. From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take ; The laughing flowers, that round them blow, Drink life and fragrance as they flow. Now the rich stream of music winds along, Deep, majestic, smooth, and strong, Through verdant vales, and Ceres...
Seite 383 - Romeo: and when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.
Seite 166 - The cheerful haunts of man, to wield the axe, And drive the wedge, in yonder forest drear, From morn to eve his solitary task.
Seite 313 - It is a weary interlude — Which doth short joys, long woes, include; • The world the stage, the prologue tears, The acts vain hopes and varied fears ; The scene shuts up with loss of breath, And leaves no epilogue but death.
Seite 241 - He found a Woman in the cave, A solitary Woman, Who by the fire was spinning, And singing as she spun. The pine boughs were cheerfully blazing, And her face was bright with the flame; Her face was as a Damsel's face, And yet her hair was grey.
Seite 117 - ... the peace of all the families and friends he is acquainted with in a quarter of an hour, and yet the next moment be the best-natured man in the whole world.
Seite 227 - Is deep enrich'd with vegetable life; Till, in the western sky, the downward sun Looks out, effulgent, from amid the flush Of broken clouds, gay-shifting to his beam. The rapid radiance instantaneous strikes Th...
Seite 164 - I have been at one opera, Mr. Wesley's. They have boys and girls with charming voices, that sing hymns, in parts, to Scotch ballad tunes; but indeed so long, that one would think they were already in eternity, and knew how much time they had before them.