A View of the English Stage: Or, A Series of Dramatic CriticismsG. Bell & sons, 1906 - 358 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 66
Page ix
... Opera ; H. = Haymarket ; K.T. = King's Theatre ; L. = Lyceum . ) From The Morning Chronicle . PAGE Mr. Kean's Shylock ( Merchant of Venice ) D.L. , Jan. 26 , 18141 The Apprentice I 22 99 " " " " 99 99 Physic ) . Mr. Kean's Shylock ...
... Opera ; H. = Haymarket ; K.T. = King's Theatre ; L. = Lyceum . ) From The Morning Chronicle . PAGE Mr. Kean's Shylock ( Merchant of Venice ) D.L. , Jan. 26 , 18141 The Apprentice I 22 99 " " " " 99 99 Physic ) . Mr. Kean's Shylock ...
Page x
... Opera . Twenty Per Cent . C.G. , 22 25 , 120 29 D.L. , 28 , 122 29 Nov. 2 , 99 99 124 Miss O'Neill's Elwina ( Percy ) Who's Who ? or , The Double Imposture Where to find a Friend C.G. , II , 99 99 125 D.L. , 99 15 , 128 " " 23 , 99 129 ...
... Opera . Twenty Per Cent . C.G. , 22 25 , 120 29 D.L. , 28 , 122 29 Nov. 2 , 99 99 124 Miss O'Neill's Elwina ( Percy ) Who's Who ? or , The Double Imposture Where to find a Friend C.G. , II , 99 99 125 D.L. , 99 15 , 128 " " 23 , 99 129 ...
Page xi
... , 214 Mr. Kemble's Macbeth · • New English Opera House ( Up all Night ) The Winter Theatres ( The School of Reform ) 99 :: " " 99 99 " " 217 L. , 22 15 , 218 " " C.G. , 14 , 220 The Winter Theatres ( The Irish Widow ) . D.L. Contents . xi.
... , 214 Mr. Kemble's Macbeth · • New English Opera House ( Up all Night ) The Winter Theatres ( The School of Reform ) 99 :: " " 99 99 " " 217 L. , 22 15 , 218 " " C.G. , 14 , 220 The Winter Theatres ( The Irish Widow ) . D.L. Contents . xi.
Page xii
... Opera . The Italian Opera ( Cosi fan Tutti ) Old Customs . My Landlady's Nightgown ( My Landlady's Gown ) · Love in a Village The Castle of Andalusia The Fair Deserter Two Words • The Surrender of Calais The Wonder . Mr. Macready's ...
... Opera . The Italian Opera ( Cosi fan Tutti ) Old Customs . My Landlady's Nightgown ( My Landlady's Gown ) · Love in a Village The Castle of Andalusia The Fair Deserter Two Words • The Surrender of Calais The Wonder . Mr. Macready's ...
Page xxii
... Opera , Coriolanus , etc. In fact , I have come to this determination in my own mind , that a work is as good as manuscript , and is invested with all the same privileges , till it appears in a second edition — a rule which leaves me at ...
... Opera , Coriolanus , etc. In fact , I have come to this determination in my own mind , that a work is as good as manuscript , and is invested with all the same privileges , till it appears in a second edition — a rule which leaves me at ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
acting action actor admirable allusion appearance applause audience Bartley beautiful Beggar's Opera better Bruges character Charles Kemble comedy comic Comus Coriolanus Covent Garden critics début delight display Dowton dramatic Drury Lane Drury-Lane Duke effect English equal excellent expression farce favour favourite feeling gaiety Garrick genius gentleman give grace Hamlet Haymarket Haymarket Theatre Hazlitt humour Iago Ibid imagination indifferent interest Kean Kean's Kemble Kemble's King Lady Liston look Lord lover Macbeth manner Mardyn mind Miss Kelly Miss O'Neill Miss Stephens Molière moral Munden nature never night O'Neill's October Othello pantomime passages passion perfect performance person piece play plot poet produced revived Richard Richard III Romeo scene seems sense sentiment Shakespeare Shylock Siddons singing Sir Giles song soul spirit stage sung Theatre theatrical thing thou thought tion tone tragedy voice whole Wife words young
Popular passages
Page 2 - BELL (Sir Charles). The Anatomy and Philosophy of Expression, as connected with the Fine Arts.
Page 17 - OVID'S Works, complete. Literally translated into Prose. 3 vols. 5*. each. PASCAL'S Thoughts. Translated from the Text of M. Auguste Molinier by C. Kegan Paul. 3rd Edition. v- M PAULI'S (Dr. R.) Life of Alfred the Great. Translated from the German To which is appended Alfred's ANGLO-SAXON VERSION OF OROSIUS. With a literal Translation interpaged, Notes, and an ANGLO-SAXON GRAMMAR and GLOSSARY, by B. Thorpe. 5*. PAUSANIAS
Page 66 - Think, my lord ! By heaven, he echoes me. As if there were some monster in his thought Too hideous to be shown.
Page 6 - CHRONICLES OF THE CRUSADES. Contemporary Narratives of the Crusade of Richard Coeur de Lion, by Richard of Devizes and Geoffrey de Vinsauf ; and of the Crusade at St. Louis, by Lord John de Joinville. 5*. CICERO'S Orations. Translated by Prof. CD Yonge, MA 4 vols.
Page 17 - MUDIE'S British Birds ; or, History of the Feathered Tribes of the British Islands. Revised by W. CL Martin. With 52 Figures of Birds and 7 Coloured Plates of Eggs. 2 vols.
Page 12 - Notes on. Original and Selected from the best Commentators. By DW Turner, MA With Coloured Map. 5*. Analysis and Summary of By JT Wheeler. 5*.
Page 62 - Ay, there's the point :' — as — to be bold with you — Not to affect many proposed matches Of her own clime, complexion, and degree, Whereto we see in all things nature tends, — Foh ! one may smell in such a will most rank, Foul disproportion, thoughts unnatural...
Page 67 - Dangerous conceits are, in their natures, poisons, Which, at the first, are scarce found to distaste ; But, with a little act upon the blood, Burn like the mines of sulphur.
Page 12 - HUTCHINSON (Colonel). Memoirs of the Life of. By his Widow, Lucy : together with her Autobiography, and an Account of the Siege of Lathom House.
Page 14 - If folly grow romantic, I must paint it. Come, then, the colours and the ground prepare ! Dip in the rainbow, trick her off in air ; Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.