Macready's Reminiscences, and Selections from His Diaries and Letters, Zväzok 2Macmillan and Company, 1875 |
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Acis and Galatea Acted Hamlet actor agreeable applause April audience August Babbage Bartley beautiful blessed Bulwer called Cardinal Richelieu carriage Catherine character cheerful Cheltenham cordially Covent Garden Theatre dear December delighted Dickens dined dinner drama dress Drury Lane Theatre Elstree engagement February feel Forster Garrick Club gave give Hamlet Haymarket hear heart Henry honour hope Horace Twiss interest January July June King King Lear labour Lady Lear Letitia letter London looked Lord Lord Lansdowne Macbeth Maclise Macready's March mind Miss morning never November o'clock October Othello pantomime passed performance persons play pleased Pollock Procter received rehearsal Richelieu Robertson Ryder scene seemed sent September Serle Shakespeare Sherborne Siddons sincerely spirits spoke stage Stanfield Talfourd talked thank thought told took Virginius W. C. MACREADY walked Wellington Square WILLIAM CHARLES MACREADY Willmott wish Wrote
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Strana 56 - The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.
Strana 33 - Action is transitory — a step, a blow. The motion of a muscle — this way or that — 'Tis done, and in the after-vacancy We wonder at ourselves like men betrayed : Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
Strana 314 - Life ! we've been long together Through pleasant and through cloudy weather; 'Tis hard. to part when friends are dear — Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear; — Then steal away, give little warning, Choose thine own time; Say not Good Night, — but in some brighter clime Bid me Good Morning.
Strana 444 - I ought not to hazard an opinion ; but from what has been omitted and what has been interpolated in the production of the Shakespearian plays at the Princess's Theatre, it has always seemed to me as if the text allowed to be spoken was more like a running commentary upon the spectacles exhibited, than the scenic arrangements an illustration of the text. It has however been popular, and the main end been answered. Perhaps I may see you before your flying visit. Katie and all, thank God, are pretty...
Strana 424 - To fathom the depths of character, to trace its latent motives, to feel its finest quiverings of emotion, to comprehend the thoughts that are hidden under words, and thus possess one's self of the actual mind of the individual man" — such was Macready's definition of the player's art ; and to this we may add the testimony of Talma.
Strana 97 - I described the sort of fragile, hectic, beautiful-faced boy that he should be, and stated my belief that it never could be acted. Bartley observed that a woman should play it. I caught at the idea, and instantly exclaimed, Miss P. Horton is the very person.
Strana 8 - Forster and Browning called, and talked over the plot of a tragedy which Browning had begun to think of : the subject, Narses. He said that I had bit him by my performance of Othello, and I told him I hoped I should make the blood come. It would indeed be some recompense for the miseries, the humiliations, the heartsickening disgusts which I have endured in my profession if, by its exercise, I had awakened a spirit of poetry whose influence would elevate, ennoble, and adorn our degraded drama. May...
Strana 43 - Forster told me that Browning had fixed on Strafford for the subject of a tragedy ; he could not have hit upon one that I could have more readily concurred in.
Strana 453 - He tells us of the days in which the sounding cataract, The tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood.
Strana 443 - In sooth, I know not why I am so sad : It wearies me ; you say it wearies you ; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn ; And such a want-wit sadness makes of me, That I have much ado to know myself.