Samuel Foote: A BiographyChatto & Windus, 1910 - 382 Seiten |
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Seite 108 - So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie ; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop.
Seite 93 - But he has wit too, and is not deficient in ideas, or in fertility and variety of imagery, and not empty of 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...
Seite 90 - He has a singular talent of exhibiting character." JOHNSON. " 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 254 - July in the year of our LORD CHRIST, One Thousand, Seven Hundred and Sixty one and in the First year of our Reign.
Seite 62 - Saturday afternoon, exactly at twelve o'clock, at the new theatre in the Haymarket, Mr. Foote begs the favour of his friends to come and drink a dish of chocolate with him, and 'tis hoped there will be a great deal of company and some joyous spirits.
Seite 94 - Why, Sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull ; but it must have taken him a great deaf of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature.
Seite 254 - George the Second, by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, etc. : To all to whom these presents shall come Greeting : Know ye that...
Seite 255 - Killigrew his heirs and assigns from time to time to act plays and entertainments of the stage of all sorts peaceably and quietly without the impeachment or impediment of any person or persons whatsoever for the honest recreation of such as shall desire to see the same.
Seite 109 - So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber; and there were present the Picninnies, and the Joblillies, and the...
Seite 30 - Who is he?' which nobody could answer, until, a handsome carriage stopping at the door to take him to the assembly of a lady of fashion, they learned from the servants that his name was Foote, that he was a young gentleman of family and fortune, and a student of the Inner Temple.