Richard Cumberland: His Life and Dramatic WorksYale University Press, 1917 - 365 páginas |
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Página 147 - Why, sir, for aught I know, he might take out some of the best things in my tragedy, and put them into his own comedy.
Página 160 - ... dinner ; you did not, perhaps, make it the whole, or principal part, of your meal, but it was an admirable and wholesome auxiliary to your other viands. Soame Jenyns told you no long stories, engrossed not much of your attention, and was not angry with those that did.
Página 17 - Quin presented himself, upon the rising of the curtain, in a green velvet coat,- embroidered down the seams, an enormous fullbottomed periwig, rolled stockings, and high-heeled, squaretoed shoes. With very little variation of cadence, and in a deep, full tone, accompanied by a sawing kind of action, which had more of the senate than of the stage in it, he rolled out his heroics with an air of dignified indifference, that seemed to disdain the plaudits that were bestowed upon him.
Página 132 - ... its future sale. Johnson described the precautions he took in concealing the amount of the sum he had in hand, which he prudently administered to him by a guinea at a time. In the event he paid off the landlady's score, and redeemed the person of his friend from her embraces. Goldsmith had the joy of finding his ingenious work succeed beyond his hopes, and from that time began to place a confidence in the resources of his talents, which thenceforward enabled him to keep his station in society,...
Página 124 - Adam Drummond, of amiable memory, who was gifted by nature with the most sonorous, and at the same time, the most contagious laugh that ever echoed from the human lungs. The neighing of the horse...
Página 121 - But there is one argument in favour of sentimental comedy, which will keep it on the stage, in spite of all that can be said against it. It is, of all others, the most easily written. Those abilities that can hammer out a novel, are fully sufficient for the production of a sentimental comedy. It is only sufficient to raise the characters a little ; to deck out the hero with a...
Página 123 - Drummond, of amiable memory, who was gifted by nature with the most sonorous, and at the same time the most contagious laugh, that ever echoed from the human lungs. The neighing of the horse of the son of Hystaspes was a whisper to it ; the whole thunder of the theatre could not drown it. This kind and...
Página 298 - He considered the theatre a school for moral improvement, and his remains are truly worthy of mingling with the illustrious dead which surround us. Read his prose subjects on divinity! there you will find the true Christian spirit of the man who trusted in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ May God forgive him his sins ; and, at the resurrection of the just, receive him into everlasting glory !" — E.] t [The " London Review,
Página 17 - ... when after long and eager expectation I first beheld little Garrick, then young and light and alive in every muscle and in every feature, come bounding on the stage, and pointing at the wittol Altamont and heavy -paced Horatio — heavens, what a transition!
Página 117 - That is very like my friend, and that blue coat with a red cape is very like the coat he has on, but you must give him something to do ; put a pen in his hand, a paper on his table, and make him a poet ; if you can once set him down well to his writing, who knows but in time he may write something in your praise...