 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 524 trang
...Like an ill-judging beauty, his colours he spread, And beplaster'd with rouge his own natural red. On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting; 'Twas only that when he was o(T, he was acting. With no reason on earth to go out of his way, 1 The Rev. Dr. William Dodd, afterwards... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1854 - 564 trang
...rud. On the stage he was natural, simple, affeeting ; 'Twas only that when he was off, he was aeting. With no reason on earth to go out of his way, He turn'd and he varied full ten times a day : Though seeure of our hearts, yet eonfoundedly siek, If... | |
 | Charles Churchill, William Tooke - 1854 - 386 trang
...his colonrs he spread, And be-plaster'd with ronge his own natnral red. On the stage he was natnral, simple, affecting ; "Twas only that when he was off he was acting. And panse and start with the same vacant face, I We join the critic langh ; those tricks we scorn 1... | |
 | Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, Andrew Frothingham - 1992 - 552 trang
...they get home. — Elsa Lanchester Lead the audience by the nose to the thought. — Laurence Olivier On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting; 'twas only that when he was off he was acting. — Oliver Goldsmith When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams. — Anton... | |
 | J. Lukasiewicz - 1994 - 312 trang
...says Jaques in Shakespeare's As You Like It, first produced in a theatre pointedly named The Globe. "On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting: 'Twas only that when he was off he was acting" — Oliver Goldsmith, 1774. In our day, the theatre is no longer a metaphor for the globe. The real... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 trang
...all things, for all things unfit, Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit. 4178 Retaliatlon (of 's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my...son! 5741 Rewards and Fairies 'The Thousandth Man' 4179 Retaliatlon (of Reynolds) When they talked of their Raphaels, Corregglos, and stuff, He shifted... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 404 trang
...to all things, for all things unfit, Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a 1692 Retaliation (of Garrick) On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting; 'Twas only that when he was off he was acting. 1693 Retaliation (of Reynolds) When they talked of their Raphaels, Correggios, and stuff, He shifted... | |
 | Cheryl Wanko - 2003 - 286 trang
...others at a distance and had "friends but no friend" — and Goldsmith seems peevishly to have agreed: "On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, /...'Twas only that, when he was off, he was acting."" In his private writings, Sir Joshua Reynolds left a brief character sketch of Garrick in which he emphasized... | |
 | Bharat Tandon - 2003 - 319 trang
...with 'The wordes of King Lemuel, the prophecie that his mother taught him'. 153 3 THROWING THE VOICE On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only that, when he was off, he was acting: Absent Friends Oliver Goldsmith, 'Retaliation' 1 In a letter to Cassandra of January 1801, Austen made... | |
 | Peter Holland - 2006 - 384 trang
...connections that underlie everything. Oliver Goldsmith famously wrote of his friend Garrick in 1774: On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting; 'Twas only that when he was off, he was acting.27 Garrick's success rested on a performance of mimesis that was not restricted to the stage,... | |
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As a wit, if not first, in the very first line: Yet, with talents like these, and an excellent heart, The man had his failings, a dupe to his art. Like an ill-judging beauty, his colours he spread, And beplaster'd with rouge his own natural red. On the... 
