| William Cook - 1804 - 468 trang
...contest, in which he was sensible he had the worst of, both in fame and profit: " Well, what's to night ?" says angry Ned, As up from bed he rouses ; " Romeo again !*' and shakes his head ; " Ah ! pox on both your houses !" Accident, however, put an end to this controversy. After twelve... | |
| Thomas Davies - 1818 - 262 trang
...play, was printed during this struggle for theatrical pre-eminence. On the run of Romeo and Juliet. -.Well, what's to-night, says angry Ned, As up from...bed he rouses ? Romeo again ! and shakes his head; Ah ! pox on both your houses ! Mr. Garrick foresaw that the great actors of Covent-garden would not... | |
| Richard Ryan - 1825 - 326 trang
...end to a contest which was become absurd, wrote the following epigram : — " Well, what's to night?" says angry Ned, As up from bed he rouses : " Romeo again !'' and shakes his head : " A plague o" both your houses !" On the rival Lears, by the same performers, the two following were written :... | |
| Richard Ryan - 1825 - 332 trang
...end to a contest which was become absurd, wrote the following epigram : — " Well, what's to night?" says angry Ned, As up from bed he rouses : " Romeo again !'' and shakes his head : " A plague o' both your houses !" On the rival Lears, by the same performers, the two following were written :... | |
| John Taylor - 1832 - 520 trang
...and I understood run through the others, for the struggle took place long before my time. Well ! what to-night ? says angry Ned, As up from bed he rouses, Romeo again ! and shakes his head, Ah ! plague on both your houses I Garrick was himself naturally tired of the contest, as the audiences... | |
| John Genest - 1832 - 680 trang
...Mr. H—Its' Epigram appeared at the same time in the Daily Advertiser— " Well, what's to night ?" says angry Ned, As up from bed he rouses ; " Romeo again !" and shakes his head ; " Ah! Pox on both your houses" It was affirmed that both theatres acted for some nights to thin and... | |
| John Taylor - 1832 - 450 trang
...and I understood run through the others, for the struggle took place long before my time. Well ! what to-night ? says angry Ned, As up from bed he rouses, Romeo again I and shakes his head, Ah ! plague on both your houses I Garrick was himself naturally tired of the... | |
| Charles Churchill, William Tooke - 1844 - 400 trang
...listlessness, if not displeasure, as conveyed in a then very popular epigram . — *' Well, what's to night? says angry Ned, As up from bed he rouses ; Romeo again,...and shakes his head, A plague on both your houses." In the spring of 1777, a compliment of the highest nature was paid to Garrick, who happened to be in... | |
| Thomas Wright - 1848 - 524 trang
...epigram of the day spoke distinctly the public feeling — " On the Run of ' Romeo and Juliet.'1 " ' Well, what's to-night?' says angry Ned, As up from...bed he rouses; ' Romeo again !' and shakes his head, ' Ah I plague on both your houses I' " Personal jealousies, not only among the actors themselves, but... | |
| Thomas Wright - 1848 - 488 trang
...epigram of the day spoke distinctly the public feeling — " On the Run of ' Romeo and Juliet: " ' Well, what's to-night?' says angry Ned, As up from...he rouses ; ' Romeo again !' and shakes his head, ' Ah I plague on both your houses I' " Personal jealousies, not only among the actors themselves, but... | |
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