Scenes from the Life of an Actor ... By a celebrated Comedian; (G. H. H.) [Edited by C. Hill.]Garrett & Company, 1853 - 246 Seiten |
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... asked for a certificate that George Handel Hill was a good - natured , tender - hearted , honest , comical , lazy boy , it would have been signed for me by half the peo- ple in Taunton and Raynham , ministers and deacons included . For ...
... asked for a certificate that George Handel Hill was a good - natured , tender - hearted , honest , comical , lazy boy , it would have been signed for me by half the peo- ple in Taunton and Raynham , ministers and deacons included . For ...
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... asked as to where the fun came from , when the old jokes are turned up from that grave of old farces , the prompter's library , by the spade of some new play- maker , who will write another name for Solomon Swap , and Christen , the ...
... asked as to where the fun came from , when the old jokes are turned up from that grave of old farces , the prompter's library , by the spade of some new play- maker , who will write another name for Solomon Swap , and Christen , the ...
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... asked me to play a Yankee character . This op- portunity I had long desired ; and Jonathan Ploughboy , in the " Forrest Rose , " was the character selected for my new essay . My brother performers can appreciate my feelings when the ...
... asked me to play a Yankee character . This op- portunity I had long desired ; and Jonathan Ploughboy , in the " Forrest Rose , " was the character selected for my new essay . My brother performers can appreciate my feelings when the ...
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... asking him for an opening at the Park . I had my own views in relation to the matter ; but a young actor , just leaving the humble duties of stock business at ten dollars per week , and entering by a lucky pathway to the road of ...
... asking him for an opening at the Park . I had my own views in relation to the matter ; but a young actor , just leaving the humble duties of stock business at ten dollars per week , and entering by a lucky pathway to the road of ...
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... asking some questions of an elderly looking gentleman who was standing at the door , apparently bidding adieu to some ... asked what they were . The old gentleman said : " In that locality abounded one of the staples of New England ...
... asking some questions of an elderly looking gentleman who was standing at the door , apparently bidding adieu to some ... asked what they were . The old gentleman said : " In that locality abounded one of the staples of New England ...
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Seite 190 - Oh — never may a son of thine, Where'er his wandering steps incline, Forget the sky which bent above His childhood like a dream of love — The stream beneath the green hill flowing — The broad-armed trees above it growing — The clear breeze through the foliage blowing; Or, hear unmoved the taunt of scorn Breathed o'er the brave New England born...
Seite 116 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden -flower grows wild; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year...
Seite 189 - LA.ND of the forest and the rock — Of dark blue lake and mighty river — Of mountains reared aloft to mock The storm's career, the lightning's shock — My own green land for ever ! Land of the beautiful and brave — The freeman's home — the martyr's grave...
Seite 12 - I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood.
Seite 171 - I never see a real one, but I guess you be. Ar'nt ye — you? BILL: Who's you call nigger? JED: Well, I only ask'd you. Why he's mad as a hen a'ready. Did your mother have any more on you? BILL: Dere child, you better keep quiet, and mind what you say to me, you little bushwacker; if you am saucy I'll spile your profile, you mind dat now.
Seite 197 - God, ascend, Bid the broad arch the dangerous flood contain, The mole projected break the roaring main ; Back to his bounds the subject sea command, And roll obedient rivers through the land : These honours peace to happy Britain brings ; These are imperial works, and worthy kings.
Seite 191 - ... good dividends when others are bankrupt. In the language of Chevalier, at the north or the south, in the east as well as the west, he is a true Marquis of Carrabas. At Baltimore, as well as at Boston, in New Orleans as well as at Salem, in New York as well as at Portland, if a merchant is mentioned who has made — and kept, by-the-bye a vqry difficult part of it — a large fortune by sagacity and forecast, you.
Seite 198 - ... tickle the ears of the groundlings." We allude to the loud mouthed ranting style — the tearing of every thing to shivers — which is so much the ambition of some of our players, particularly the younger ones. It does in such cases truly seem as if some of Nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well — they imitate humanity so abominably.
Seite 92 - I shall be happy to give you any information in my power.' 'Was it in this room that you gave your instructions as to the copying of the document?