Alexander's Modern Acting Drama: Consisting of the Most Popular Plays Produced at the Philadelphia Theatres and Elsewhere, Volume 8Carey & Hart, 1835 |
Common terms and phrases
Allsop Apocides Arbaces BAREBONES Barl BARLEYCORN beautiful Calenus Capt CAROLINE Charles charming child Clodius dare daughter dear devil Dian Diomed dress Egyptian Exeunt Exit eyes fair fellow Flin Flinch gardens Garman GAYTON gentleman girl give gods Grum hand hear heard heart heiress hermit honour Ione Jahn Julia Kate KILLINGLY Kitty Knitbrow lady laugh lion look ma'am Maggs marry mean miss morning nephew never Nydia OLD PRANKS Olynthus pardon Pere Peregrine Pikey Pompeii POODLE pounds Prætor pray rascal Salisbury Plain Sally SCENE servant sha'n't sing Sir L Sir Lawrence slave Soph Sosia soul speak Stil Stilton sure Susan Tactic tell thee there's thing thou art thou hast thought Toby Tully Victim Walnut Street Theatre Whim WHIMMY Whimmy's wilt wish Witch woman word YOUNG PRANKS Zounds
Popular passages
Page 121 - Oh, have you e'er heard of Kate Kearney? She lives on the banks of Killarney; From the glance of her eye, Shun danger and fly, For fatal's the glance of Kate Kearney.
Page 122 - Oh ! should you e'er meet this Kate Kearney, Who lives on the banks of Killarney, Beware of her smile, for many a wile Lies hid in the smile of Kate Kearney. Though she looks so bewitchingly simple, Yet there's mischief in every dimple; And who dares inhale her sigh's spicy gale, Must die by the breath of Kate Kearney.
Page 68 - Vic. Head ! (Tactic pretends to try to catch the coin, but purposely lets it fall to the ground — he then picks it up hastily.) Tac. Egad , it's woman. The fair sex was always propitious to me. Vic. Was it not head though? I never saw what it was. Tac. No , but I did ; and two eyes are enough to see one half-a-sovereign.
Page 62 - George Victim, clerk to Mr. Hooker, a respectable solicitor, was, on Thursday last, brought up before Mr. Knitbrow, sitting magistrate, ornamented with a furious black eye, and charged with creating a disturbance in the streets. Defendant, it appears, being in a state of intoxication, had amused himself by upsetting three saloop stalls; and he was found by policeman, G division, in a pugilistic encounter with three chimney sweepers, respectively, friends of the proprietors.
Page 76 - ... and gloves, but cannot take off his helmet.) — The devil ! I have tied the helmet in a knot — a knot as tight as the hangman will tie it if I don't mend. My grandeur sits too close upon me — Hooker will be down in a moment — where's my penknife ? Enter HOOKER, with MRS.
Page 73 - In this short conversation about half-a-dozen hard points arose, and I smoothed them all down. Smoothing is certainly my fort. Had I been a carpenter, I should have shone in planing — had I been a painter, in varnishing — had I turned my attention to roads, I should have started macadamising — laeing a lawyer's clerk, I excel in humbugging.
Page 63 - Tac. I nearly told the truth. Fag. How melancholy ? Tac. I was just going to tell my real name, when the devil turned me from my purpose, in the shape of a newspaper reporter. There he was, with his...
Page 114 - Wings he hath, which though ye clip, He will leap from lip to lip, Over liver, lights, and heart, But not stay in any part; And if chance his arrow misses, He will shoot himself in kisses.
Page 66 - You see, my dear Victim, there are two sorts of excuses. One merely helps you out of a scrape ; the other puts you in a better situation than if said scrape had never happened. I showed you a specimen of the last just now ; the first I practise every hour. Any one can tell a lie ; but it requires a superior genius to lie upon principle — scientifically. It requires quick and brilliant imagination, a ready flow of eloquence, a prepossessing ease of address. A great liar must be a great man, to which...
Page 76 - Tac. (Aside.) I must brazen it out. I thought you would not mind a little harmless pastime, sir; and so — Enter Juliet Snooks in a »iolent rage.