Memoirs of Samuel Foote, Esq: With a Collection of His Genuine Bon-mots, Anecdotes, Opinions, &c. Mostly Original. And Three of His Dramatic Pieces, Not Published in His Works ...R. Phillips, 1805 |
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... kind in his purse , his table , and advice . Yet as no man is a hero to his valet - de - chambre , ” so these in- timates were witnesses to great occasional dejection of spirits . He would suddenly fall from the height of mirth to the ...
... kind in his purse , his table , and advice . Yet as no man is a hero to his valet - de - chambre , ” so these in- timates were witnesses to great occasional dejection of spirits . He would suddenly fall from the height of mirth to the ...
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... kind of un- becoming eagerness , or made the least dis- tinction at his table between them and the obscurest guest . When that table too was all in a roar , as it usually was , he never stop- ped the career of his bon - mot out of ...
... kind of un- becoming eagerness , or made the least dis- tinction at his table between them and the obscurest guest . When that table too was all in a roar , as it usually was , he never stop- ped the career of his bon - mot out of ...
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... under no restraints of this kind , was so much of an original himself , that he was impatient of the fatigue of a copyist ; and when he once got the outline , he filled C 2 SAMUEL FOOTE . 19 remembered that great master of the old ...
... under no restraints of this kind , was so much of an original himself , that he was impatient of the fatigue of a copyist ; and when he once got the outline , he filled C 2 SAMUEL FOOTE . 19 remembered that great master of the old ...
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... kind of concentration . He is above all law , exempted from all re straints : he ranges the world at will , and governs wherever he appears : he fights without inquiring the cause , and loves in spite of the obligations of justice , of ...
... kind of concentration . He is above all law , exempted from all re straints : he ranges the world at will , and governs wherever he appears : he fights without inquiring the cause , and loves in spite of the obligations of justice , of ...
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... kind is , in some respects , more useful to the age in which he lives , than he who only ranges abroad in the various scenes of life for general character . " On the other hand , and with much more reason , many who readily agree as to ...
... kind is , in some respects , more useful to the age in which he lives , than he who only ranges abroad in the various scenes of life for general character . " On the other hand , and with much more reason , many who readily agree as to ...
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Seite 193 - Graced as thou art with all the power of words, So known, so honour'd, at the house of lords...
Seite 155 - The first time I was in company with Foote was at Fitzherbert's. Having no good opinion of the fellow, I was resolved not to be pleased, and it is very difficult to please a man against his will. I went on eating my dinner pretty sullenly, affecting not to mind him. But the dog was so very comical, that I was obliged to lay down my knife and fork, throw myself back upon my chair, and fairly laugh it out. No, Sir, he was irresistible.* He upon one occasion experienced, in an extraordinary degree,...
Seite 134 - Mantua testified their esteem by a public mourning, the contemporary wits were profuse of their encomiums, and the palaces of Italy were adorned with pictures, representing him on horseback with a lance in one hand and a book in the other.
Seite 172 - We talked of Mr. Burke. Dr. Johnson said he had great variety of knowledge, store of imagery, copiousness of language. ROBERTSON. "He has wit too." JOHNSON. "No, sir, he never succeeds there. "Tis low; 'tis conceit. I used to say Burke never once made a good joke.
Seite 160 - Sir, it is not a talent ; it is a vice ; it is what others abstain from. It is not comedy, which exhibits the character of a species, as that of a miser gathered from many misers ; it is farce which exhibits individuals.
Seite 158 - ... reading ; he has knowledge enough to fill up his part. One species of wit he has in an eminent degree, that of escape. You drive him into a corner with both hands ; but he's gone, Sir, when you think you have got him — like an animal that jumps over your head. Then he has a great range for wit ; he never lets truth stand between him and a jest, and he is sometimes mighty coarse. Garrick is under many restraints from which Foote is free.
Seite 192 - ... such a flowing happiness of diction, which (from care, perhaps, at first) is become so habitual to him, that even his most familiar conversations, if taken down in writing, would bear the press, without the least correction either as to method or style.
Seite 135 - His person was of the middle size, about five feet seven inches high, inclinable to fatness. He had a thoughtful speaking eye, and that was all. He gave himself up early to drinking ; and, like the unhappy wits of that age, passed his days between rioting and fasting, ranting' jollity and abject penitence, carousing one week with Lord Plymouth, and then starving a month in low company at an alehouse on Tower-hill.
Seite 126 - Hebrew, and all the languages which we call learned, but also all the different jargons or modern dialects; he accented and pronounced them so naturally, and so perfectly imitated the gestures and manners both of the several nations of Europe, and the particular provinces of France, that he might have been taken for a native of all or any of these countries; and this quality he applied to counterfeit all sorts of persons, wherein he succeeded wonderfully; he was, moreover, the best comedian and...
Seite 2 - Dear Mother, — So am I, which prevents his duty being paid to his loving mother by her affectionate son, SAM. FOOTE.