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... manager who was willing to take the risk . The great night came , the whole town was present , the tradespeople among her friends and all in her quarter of the city thronged the gallery and the pit , the bourgeoisie sat in the better ...
... manager who was willing to take the risk . The great night came , the whole town was present , the tradespeople among her friends and all in her quarter of the city thronged the gallery and the pit , the bourgeoisie sat in the better ...
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... manager who in his contract expressly stipulated that Mrs. Reeves should not travel with him , knowing full well that the aged lady would exercise her old - time wiles and , if she could do so , would prevent him from singing . As it ...
... manager who in his contract expressly stipulated that Mrs. Reeves should not travel with him , knowing full well that the aged lady would exercise her old - time wiles and , if she could do so , would prevent him from singing . As it ...
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... manager , D'Oyley Carte , where I was offered the part of Cedric the Saxon , in place of one of the members of the cast who was unreliable because of his erratic disposition and intemperate habits . Consulting my master Shakespeare the ...
... manager , D'Oyley Carte , where I was offered the part of Cedric the Saxon , in place of one of the members of the cast who was unreliable because of his erratic disposition and intemperate habits . Consulting my master Shakespeare the ...
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... manager did me the com- pliment to urge me to do so , and when I demurred , say- ing I was too short , he replied , " Oh , that is nothing ; I have known plenty of little devils ! " I have since been told that I have a way of creating ...
... manager did me the com- pliment to urge me to do so , and when I demurred , say- ing I was too short , he replied , " Oh , that is nothing ; I have known plenty of little devils ! " I have since been told that I have a way of creating ...
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... manager once summed it up to me : " Confound these women , the older they get , and the worse they sing , the more ... managers to go into light opera , for which it seems they thought me well fitted , as I had made an undoubted ...
... manager once summed it up to me : " Confound these women , the older they get , and the worse they sing , the more ... managers to go into light opera , for which it seems they thought me well fitted , as I had made an undoubted ...
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Page 345 - What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also : I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.
Page 364 - There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat; And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.
Page 126 - The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, With spectacles on nose and pouch on side, His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank ; and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
Page 131 - Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.
Page 230 - I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Chr — 's sentiment, that he believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
Page 345 - So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air.
Page 353 - Eftsoones they heard a most melodious sound, Of all that mote delight a dainty ear, Such as at once might not on living ground, Save in this paradise, be heard elsewhere...
Page 47 - I do embrace it; for even that vulgar and tavern music, which makes one man merry, another mad, strikes in me a deep fit of devotion, and a profound contemplation of the first composer.
Page 301 - twill pass for wit; Care not for feeling — pass your proper jest, And stand a critic, hated yet caress'd. And shall we own such judgment? no— as soon Seek roses in December— ice in June; Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff; Believe a woman or an epitaph, Or any other thing that's false, before You trust in critics, who themselves are sore Or yield one single thought to be misled By Jeffrey's heart, or Lambe's Boeotian head.