Peg WoffingtonDodd, Mead, 1852 - 276페이지 |
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actors actress admired angel baize beautiful begged Bloomsbury Square bowed Bracegirdle brute CHARLES READE Cibber Clive Colander Colley Colley Cibber comedy country wife Covent Garden creature cried Mabel cried Triplet cried Vane dear door dress epilogue Ernest eyes face Falstaff fell fington forgive gentleman green-room hand happy head hear heart Heaven honour husband innocent James Burdock James Quin Kitty Clive knew laugh letter look lover Lucy Lysimachus Ma'am Mabel Vane Madam Margaret Woffington mind never night painted Peg Woffington picture play Pompey poor Triplet Quin replied rival rose round servant Shropshire sigh Sir Charles Pomander smile Snarl Soaper soul stage suddenly sweet talent tell theatre thing thought told tone took tragedies trembled turned Vane's vanity voice whilst wife woman words young
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194 페이지 - Where is that ? You mean kindly, sir; but you make me unhappy. POMANDER. — The greenroom, my dear madam, is the bower where houris put off their wings, and goddesses become dowdies ; where Lady Macbeth weeps over her lapdog, dead from repletion; and Belvidera soothes her broken heart with a dozen of oysters. In a word, it is the place where actors and actresses become men and women, and act their own parts with skill, instead of a poet's, clumsily.
236 페이지 - ... not rule her heart. And when the young wife, instead of inveighing against her, came to her as a supplicant, with faith in her goodness, and sobbed to her for pity, a big tear rolled down her cheek, and proved her something more than a picture or an actress. Mrs. Vane, as we have related, screamed and ran to Triplet. Mrs. Woffington came instantly from her frame, and stood before them in a despairing attitude, with one hand upon her brow. For a single moment her impulse was to fly from the apartment,...
126 페이지 - Le bruit est pour le fat, la plainte est pour le sot, L'honnête homme trompé s'éloigne et ne dit mot.