Macready's Reminiscences, and Selections from His Diaries and Letters, Opseg 1Macmillan and Company, 1875 |
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Stranica 59
... excitement in the town on that occasion . At about three o'clock the waiter . gave me notice that Mr. Betty was coming , and I hastened out of the coffee - room to meet him , as he drove in his tandem into the gates . I introduced ...
... excitement in the town on that occasion . At about three o'clock the waiter . gave me notice that Mr. Betty was coming , and I hastened out of the coffee - room to meet him , as he drove in his tandem into the gates . I introduced ...
Stranica 65
... excited the wonder of Shakespearean critics , that it should have lain so long neglected and still should enjoy so little popularity . The passion of its language and the beauty of its poetry ( considered apart from effect in ...
... excited the wonder of Shakespearean critics , that it should have lain so long neglected and still should enjoy so little popularity . The passion of its language and the beauty of its poetry ( considered apart from effect in ...
Stranica 66
... excited could not maintain a place for the work in the list of acting plays among the favourite dramas of Shakespeare . My other new characters this season were Dorax in an adaptation by Reynolds of Dryden's Don Sebastian , ' Oroonoko ...
... excited could not maintain a place for the work in the list of acting plays among the favourite dramas of Shakespeare . My other new characters this season were Dorax in an adaptation by Reynolds of Dryden's Don Sebastian , ' Oroonoko ...
Stranica 68
... excitement was as great in the town as if the theatre had been blown up ; but the general feeling was one of indignation at the calumny and the dastardly means adopted to circulate it . When informed of it , I determined not to hold ...
... excitement was as great in the town as if the theatre had been blown up ; but the general feeling was one of indignation at the calumny and the dastardly means adopted to circulate it . When informed of it , I determined not to hold ...
Stranica 69
... excited crowds of box , pit , and gallery , and the play proceeded , but with little effect ; for Antony , the voluptuary and doting spoiled child of fortune , was not within the compass of a tyro as I then was . This was the first ...
... excited crowds of box , pit , and gallery , and the play proceeded , but with little effect ; for Antony , the voluptuary and doting spoiled child of fortune , was not within the compass of a tyro as I then was . This was the first ...
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