Memoirs of an Unfortunate Son of Thespis: Being a Sketch of the Life of Edward Cape Everard, Comedian ... with Reflections, Remarks, and AnecdotesJ. Ballantyne, 1818 - 274 pages |
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Page 142 - Might we but hope your zeal would not be less, When I am gone, to patronize distress, That hope obtain'd the wish'd for ,end secures, To soothe their cares, who oft have lighten'd yours.
Page 96 - ... as well be in another world. But out of the distant wonderlands one traveler returned. He was a missionary. He had sailed strange seas, he had seen famous cities, and had got back safely to Ohio. He had crossed deserts in caravans, and had endured perils of robbers. I resolved to be a missionary. The world was all before me where to choose my place of work. There were islands in the South Seas still awaiting the spiritual explorer. Moffat and Livingstone had found Africa interesting. There were...
Page 5 - If you cannot give a speech, or make love to' a table, chair, or marble, as well as to the finest woman in the world, you are not, nor ever will be a great actor...
Page 143 - Fortune cringe and court her, Thirst in their age, and call in vain for porter ? Like Belisarius, tax the pitying street, With 'Date Obolum' to all they meet ? Shan't I, who oft have drench'd my hands in gore, Stabb'd many, poison'd some, beheaded more ; Who numbers slew in battle on this plain ; Shan't I, the slayer, try to feed the slain ? Brother to all, with equal love I view The men who slew me, and the men I slew: I must, I will this happy project seize, IX That those, too old to die, may live...
Page 144 - With grisly beard, pale cheek, stalk up and down, And he, the royal Dane, want half a crown ? Forbid it, ladies ! gentlemen, forbid it ! Give joy to age, and let 'em say — you did it.
Page 133 - Behold him sound the depth of Hubert's soul, Whilst in his own contending passions roll ; View the whole scene, with critic judgment scan, And then deny him merit if you can. Where he falls short, 'tis nature's fault alone ; Where he succeeds, the merit's all his own.
Page vii - Insatiate archer ! could not one suffice ? Thy shaft flew thrice ; and thrice my peace was slain ; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn.
Page 143 - With date oboktm to all they meet ? Shan't I, who oft have drench 'd my hands in gore ; Stabb'd many, poison'd some, beheaded more; Who numbers slew in battle on this plain ; Shan't I, the slayer, try to feed the slain ? Brother to all, with equal love I view...
Page 62 - I remember," he was wont to relate in after life, " that when I had been but a short time on the stage I performed one night King Richard...
Page 62 - that when I had been but a short time on the stage, I performed one night King Richard, sang two comic songs, played in an interlude, danced a hornpipe, spoke a prologue, and was afterwards harlequin, in a sharing company, and after all this fatigue my share came to threepence and three pieces of candle ! " A strolling manager of a later period was wont to boast that he had performed the complete melodrama of "Rob Roy" with a limited company of five men and three women.