Memoirs of Charles Mathews, Comedian, Volumen2R. Bentley, 1838 |
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Página 256 - Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
Página 380 - I saw Byron for the last time in 1815, after I returned from France. He dined, or lunched, with me at Long's, in Bond Street. I never saw him so full of gaiety and good-humour, to which the presence of Mr Mathews, the comedian, added not a little.
Página 101 - Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone, Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night, And would have told him half his Troy was burn'd; But Priam found the fire ere he his tongue, And I my Percy's death ere thou report'st it.
Página 258 - A great actor, comic or tragic, is not to be a mere copy, a fac-simile, but an imitation of nature ; now an imitation differs from a copy in this, that it of necessity implies and demands a difference ; whereas a copy aims at identity...
Página 67 - I see her now, returning from a tumble in a neighbouring pond, in the middle of which her horse had unexpectedly chosen to drink. How unaffectedly she protested, when dragged out, that she did not care for the accident, and walked home, though with difficulty, across the common, with her muslin garments saturated with muddy water, and her beautiful hair...
Página 158 - ... the shocking appearance of his lacerated throat, the blood from which flowed out upon Mr. Bradbury — in short, this heartrending result of the previous agitation and discovery, acted upon the sensibility of Mr. Bradbury to such an extent as to deprive him of reason. This fact was noticeable two days after the above scene, by his entering a church, and after the service was ended going into the vestry, and requesting the clergyman to pray for him, as he intended to cut his throat ! This distemper...
Página 339 - After he had acted, he was determined to have a procession all by himself, a minor pageant or imitation of the Jubilee; and walked, dressed as Romeo, from the barn to the butcher's shop where Shakespeare was born. Here he wrote his name on the walls, and in the book kept for that purpose, called himself the illustrator of the poet, complained of the house, said it was not half good enough for the divine bard to have been born in, and proposed to pull it down at his own expense and build it up again,...
Página 60 - Sheridan was generally very dull in society, and sate sullen and silent, swallowing glass after glass, rather a hinderance than a help. But there was a time when he broke out with a resumption of what had been going on, done with great force, and generally attacking some person in the company, or some opinion which he had expressed.
Página 58 - Hook being in turn solicited, displayed, to the delight and surprise of all present, his wondrous talent in extemporaneous singing. The company was numerous, and generally strangers to Mr. Hook, but, without a moment's premeditation, he composed a verse upon every person in the room, full of the most pointed wit, and with the truest rhymes, unhesitatingly gathering into his subject, as he rapidly proceeded, in addition to what had passed during the dinner, every trivial incident of the moment. Every...
Página 266 - ... and orange-groves, is hardly conceivable), the clearness of the atmosphere, the coolness of the evenings, and the loveliness of the place itself, all combine to render it fascination. The very thought of ever quitting it is like the apprehension of the death or long parting with some near relation, and if it were not that this feeling is counteracted by having some friends at home, there is no inducement that would draw me from such a perfect Thule.