Memoirs of the Colman family, including their correspondence, Zväzok 2 |
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Aberdeen actor afterwards alteration appeared audience Bannister Battle of Hexham Bishop burletta called celebrated character College Colman the younger comedy comic Covent Garden Theatre criticism DEAR ARNOLD DEAR MATHEWS DEAR SIR dinner Doctor drama dramatist Drury Lane Edwin elder Elliston engaged entertainment excellent farce father favour feelings Garrick genius gentleman George Colman give Haymarket Theatre honour hope HORACE WALPOLE Iron Chest Jack Bannister Jewell John Kemble Lady late Liston little theatre London Lord Chamberlain MACKLIN madam manager Margate market theatre matter ment merit Miles Peter Andrews Miss Farren morning never O'Keefe obliged occasion opera Palmer Peeping Tom performers person piece play pleasure pounds present produced prologue proprietors received RECOLLECTIONS ROBERT LOWTH Royalty Theatre scene season servant Soho Square stage success summer talents theatrical tion told town tragedy twenty nights writing written Wynnstay Yarico young
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Strana 17 - I told our bard ; he smiled, and said 'twas clear, I ought to play deep tragedy next year. Meanwhile he drew wise morals from his play, And in these solemn periods stalk'd away...
Strana 13 - Haymarket but himself and his own writings, and forgot that a failure of the new scheme might possibly endanger the regular payment of his annuity. His pique broke out sometimes in downright rudeness. One morning he came hopping upon the stage during the rehearsal of the Spanish Barber...
Strana 419 - Oh, no, sir," replied Colman, " I could not take the liberty of coming into the world before your Royal Highness !" Though this is legitimately a pun, it is most assuredly a witty one ; and this, like...
Strana 43 - This man was a half crazy creature (as poets indeed generally are), and was well-known in most of the Colleges. He ran the Bell-Man hard in composition, but could not come up to him in rank, or in riches ; living chiefly upon what he could get from the under-graduates, by engaging to find, instantaneously, a rhyme for any word in the English language ; and when he could not find, he coined one, as in the case of rimney for chimney, which he call'da wild rhyme.
Strana 43 - a reckless libertine,' preferred ' the primrose path' to wicked playhouses, and became, in every acceptance of the phrase, a poor poet. " Had my rage for scribbling, by the by, broken out before I quitted Oxford, I do not recollect any rival, the Professor of Poetry* always excepted, whom I should have encountered in the whole University,f but Poet Harding.
Strana 17 - Peter boozes with the squire,) And at backgammon mortify my soul, That pants for loo, or flutters at a vole? Seven's the main!
Strana 123 - I'll tell you, now, what I do. If I am to write familiar things, as sonnets to Armida, and the like, I make use of stewed prunes only; but, when I have a grand design in hand, I ever take physic, and let blood, for, when you would have pure swiftness of thought and fiery flights of fancy, you must have a care of the pensive part. In fine, you must purge the belly.
Strana 217 - George Colman, the younger, starting as manager, he records : " People would be astonished if they were aware of the cart-loads of trash which are annually offered to the director of a London theatre. The very first manuscript which was proposed to me for representation on my undertaking theatrical management, was from a nautical gentleman, on a nautical subject : the piece was of a tragic description, and in five acts ; during the principal scenes of which the hero of the drama declaimed from the...
Strana 256 - Some critics have pompously called them ' lyric poetry,' that by raising them to dignity they may more effectually degrade them ; as men lift a stone very high, before they let it fall, when they would completely dash it to pieces. " I now leave the gentle reader to the perusal of the play, and, lest my father's memory may be injured by mistakes ; and in the confusion of aftertimes, the translator of Terence, and the author of The Jealous Wife...
Strana 200 - I was sometimes a carpenter, at others a bird-cage maker, or a gardener, or a drawer of landscapes. At fifty years of age I commenced an author. It is a whim that has served me longest and best, and which will probably be my last.