Theatrical Management in the West and South for Thirty YearsLibrary Reprints, Incorporated, 1868 - 275 Seiten |
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Seite 219 - A murderer and a villain ; A slave that is not twentieth part the tithe Of your precedent lord ; a vice of kings ; A cutpurse of the empire and the rule, That from a shelf the precious diadem stole, And put it in his pocket ! Queen.
Seite 220 - Come, come, and sit you down ; you shall not budge ; You go not till I set you up a glass Where you may see the inmost part of you.
Seite 219 - See what a grace was seated on this brow ; Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself, An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill ; A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.
Seite 51 - And, sure enough, out crept from the cottage the veritable faded hat, copperas-colored pants, yellow countenance and two weeks' beard we had seen the night before, and the same voice we had heard regulating the price of cottonwood squeaked out the following sentence, accompanied by the same leer of the same yellow countenance: "Why, darn it all, capting, there is but three or four cords left, and since it's you, I don't care if I do let you have it for three — as you're a good customer!
Seite 91 - Then a soldier Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice In fair round belly with good capon...
Seite 51 - ... voice, which came from a woman with a petticoat over her shoulders in place of a shawl. "What's the price of wood ?" "I think you ought to know the price by this time," answered the old lady in the petticoat— ' ' it's three and a qua-a-rter! and now you know it.
Seite 189 - Summons is a particularly clever fellow! — a clever fellow in the widest sense of the term — a fellow that is clever in every way — anxious that his passengers shall be comfortably bestowed, well fed and well attended to — and determined that they shall amuse themselves "just as they d — n please,
Seite 51 - Still, with all these disadvantages, they continued playing — they wanted to learn the game. At two o'clock the Captain asked the mate how we were getting on. "Oh, pretty glibly, sir,' ' replied the mate; "we can scarcely tell what headway we are making, for we are obliged to keep the middle of the river, and there is the shadow of a fog rising. This wood seems rather better than that we took in at Yellow-Face's, but we're nearly out again, and must be looking out for more. I saw a light just ahead...
Seite 51 - There it is!" exclaimed the Captain; "stop her!" Ding — ding — ding! went the big bell, and the Captain hailed : "Hallo! the woodyard!" "Hallo yourself!" answered a squeaking female voice, which came from a woman with a petticoat over her shoulders in place of a shawl. "What's the price of wood?" ' ' I think you ought to know the price by this time," answered the old lady in the petticoat; "it's three and a qua-a-rter! and now you know it.
Seite 275 - The Stage paints Virtue in her holiday garments ; and though storms sometimes . gather round her radiant head, the countenance of the heavenly maid, resigned, serene, and meek, beams forth, after a season of patient suffering, with ineffable refulgence. Vice constantly wears his hideous features, and in the sure, inevitable, punishment of the guilty we behold the type of that Eternal Justice, before whose fiat the purest of us shall tremble when the curtain falls on the Great Drama of Life.