A History of the Theatre in America from Its Beginnings to the Present Time, Tập 1J.B. Lippincott, 1919 - 728 trang |
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Trang 110 - Kings Arms Tavern— Newport Rhode Island On Monday, June 10th, at the Public Room of the Above Inn will be delivered a series of MORAL DIALOGUES IN FIVE PARTS Depicting the Evil Effects of Jealousy and other Bad Passions, and Proving that Happiness can only Spring from the Pursuit of Virtue.
Trang 129 - As I was going about here and there, to and again, to find it, I saw a great crowd of folks going into a long entry, that had...
Trang 31 - You are to know me, as a Gentleman, Lawyer, Poet, Actor, Soldier, Sailor, Exciseman, Publican; in England, Scotland, Ireland, New York, East and West Jersey, Maryland, Virginia (on both sides Cheesapeek), North and South Carolina, South Florida, Bahamas, Jamaica, Hispaniola, and often a Coaster by all the same.
Trang 111 - Of jealousy, our being's bane, Mark the small cause and the most dreadful pain. Mr. ALLYN will depict the character of a specious villain, in the regiment of Othello, who is so base as to hate his commander on mere suspicion, and to impose on his best friend. Of such characters, it is to be feared, there are thousands in the world, and the one in question may present to us a salutary warning. The man that wrongs his master and his friend, What can he come to but a shameful end?
Trang 117 - From the same narrow way of thinking, too, were so many ordinary People and unlick'd Cubs of Condition admitted behind our Scenes for Money, and sometimes without it : The Plagues and Inconveniences of which Custom we found so intolerable, when we afterwards had the Stage in our Hands, that at the Hazard of our Lives we were forced to get rid of them...
Trang 24 - declared that " to indulge a taste for playgoing means nothing more or less than the loss of that most valuable treasure the immortal soul.
Trang 254 - but I think I pay pretty dear for it : — first to give six shillings at the door, and then to have my head battered with rotten apples, and my coat spoiled by candle-grease...
Trang 86 - Joy thro' the whole House resound ; Yet not content to bear so great a name, The Muse still labour'd to increase her Fame ; Summon'd her Agents quickly to appear, Haste to Virginia's Plains, my Sons, repair, The Goddess said, Go, confident to find An Audience sensible, polite and kind. We heard and strait obey'd ; from Britain's Shore These unknown Climes advent'ring to explore: For us then, and our Muse thus low I bend, Nor fear to find in each the warmest Friend ; Each smiling Aspect dissipates...
Trang 112 - Will be her faithful attendant, who will hold out a good example to all servants, male and female, and to all people in subjection. Obedience and gratitude Are things as rare as they are good.
Trang 102 - Much has been said at this unlucky time, To prove the treading of the stage a crime. Mistaken zeal, in terms oft not so civil, Consigns both play and players to the devil. Yet wise men own, a play well chose may teach Such useful moral truths as...