The Life of Mr. Thomas Betterton, the Late Eminent Tragedian. Wherein the Action and Utterance of the Stage, Bar, and Pulpit, are Distinctly Consider'd. ... To which is Added, The Amorous Widow, ... Written by Mr. Betterton. ...Robert Gosling, 1710 - 87 strán (strany) |
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Strana 2
... Seem'd as if he ought to have been exempted entirely from Death . : Whether Mr. Betterton or Rofcius make a juft Parallel or not in their Merits as Actors , is difficult to know ; but thus far it is certain , that let the Excellence of ...
... Seem'd as if he ought to have been exempted entirely from Death . : Whether Mr. Betterton or Rofcius make a juft Parallel or not in their Merits as Actors , is difficult to know ; but thus far it is certain , that let the Excellence of ...
Strana 3
... seem to render this Art impoffible for any other to attain to , as Cicero is faid in his Orator , to do with the Oratorian Art . I confefs that I do make him require Quali- fications , of which he was not perhaps Master himfelf ; but I ...
... seem to render this Art impoffible for any other to attain to , as Cicero is faid in his Orator , to do with the Oratorian Art . I confefs that I do make him require Quali- fications , of which he was not perhaps Master himfelf ; but I ...
Strana 54
... seems more difficult to be obtain'd , than the Art of Speaking ; becaufe a Man's own Ear may be judge of the Voice , and its feveral Variations ... seem feem as done by the Left , which confounds the 54 The Life of Mr. Tho . Betterton .
... seems more difficult to be obtain'd , than the Art of Speaking ; becaufe a Man's own Ear may be judge of the Voice , and its feveral Variations ... seem feem as done by the Left , which confounds the 54 The Life of Mr. Tho . Betterton .
Strana 71
... seems to have expreffed all the Duties of a Player in a great Paffion ; yet in the fol- lowing feven he derives a yet ftronger Action when the Object of Grief is real ; which jufti- fies what the Ancients practis'd in heightning their ...
... seems to have expreffed all the Duties of a Player in a great Paffion ; yet in the fol- lowing feven he derives a yet ftronger Action when the Object of Grief is real ; which jufti- fies what the Ancients practis'd in heightning their ...
Strana 73
... seems more adapted to Comedy , than Tragedy , where all fhould be great and folemn , and with which the graveft of the Orators Acti ons will agree . I have read of a pleasant Me- thod , that Demofthenes took to cure himself of this Vice ...
... seems more adapted to Comedy , than Tragedy , where all fhould be great and folemn , and with which the graveft of the Orators Acti ons will agree . I have read of a pleasant Me- thod , that Demofthenes took to cure himself of this Vice ...
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Action Actor Afide againſt Anſwer Beauty becauſe beſt Betterton Body Britt Bufinefs Buſineſs call'd Caufe Charles Davenant Cicero cife Clod confefs Cuningham Damaris Dancing Demetrius the Cynic Demofthenes Difcourfe Exit exprefs Eyes faid fame feem feen Feff felf feveral fhall fhew fhort fhould fince firft firſt fome fomething fometimes foon fpeak ftill ftrong fuch fufficient fure Geſture give Hands hear Henry Purcel himſelf Honour Houſe Husband Jeff juft Lady laft lefs Love Lovemore Madam Mafter moft moſt Motions Mufic muft muſt know Nature never obferve Opera's Paffion Perfon perfuade Phil Play Player pleafing pleaſe Pleaſure Plutarch Pray prefent Pronunciation Prudence Quintilian raiſe Reafon reprefent Senfe ſhall Sir Peter ſpeak Speaking Speech Stage tell thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe Thomas Betterton thoſe thou Tone twill underſtand unleſs uſe Vifc Viſcount Voice Widow Words wou'd
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Strana 119 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil, that men do, lives after them ; The good is oft interred with their bones ; So let it be with Caesar.
Strana 115 - Hear, Nature, hear ! dear goddess, hear ! Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend To make this creature fruitful ! Into her womb convey sterility ! Dry up in her the organs of increase, And from her derogate body never spring A babe to honour her ! If she must teem...
Strana 82 - Herod. Pray you, avoid it. Be not too tame, neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor; suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature...
Strana 116 - Make me to see't; or, at the least, so prove it, That the probation bear no hinge nor loop To hang a doubt on ; or woe upon thy life ! lago.
Strana 24 - Oh ! it offends me to the foul, to hear a robufteous periwig-pated fellow tear a paffion to tatters, to very rags, to fplit the ears of the groundlings ; who (for the moft part) are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb fhews and neife : I could have fuch a fellow whipp'd for o'erdoing termagant ; it out-herods Herod. Pray you, avoid it.
Strana 16 - Practice to confult e'en the moft indifferent Poet in any Part we have thought fit to accept of...
Strana 70 - A broken voice, and his whole function suiting With forms to his conceit? and all for nothing! For Hecuba! What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her...
Strana 9 - ... apiece for every day there shall be any playing at the King's Theatre. Mr. Hart and Mr. Kynaston do both also promise to promote with all their power and interest an agreement between both playhouses : and Mr. Kynaston for himself promises to endeavour as much as he can to get free that he may act at the Duke's Playhouse, but he is not obliged to play unless he have ten shillings per day allowed for his acting and his pension then to cease. Mr. Hart and Mr. Kynaston promise to go to law with...
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Strana 17 - ... some rules, by which the young beginners might direct themselves to that perfection, which everybody is sensible is extremely (and perhaps always has been) wanted on our stage I wish I could prevail with you to deliver your sentiments on this head, so that from them we might form a system of acting, which might be a rule to future players and teach them to excel not only themselves, but those who have gone before them.