A treatise on the passions so far as they regard the stage; with a critical enquiry into the theatrical merit of mr. G-k, mr. Q-n, and mr. B-y, Volume 41747 |
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Action Actor Affiftance againſt almoſt Anguiſh applaud Audi Audience becauſe Befides beft Behaviour beſtow Cæfar Caufe Cauſe Character Circumftance Circumſtance Commiffion Compaffion Compaſs Confequence confiftent conftitutes Cordelia Criticks Def demona Defign Defire of Happineſs demona Deportment Deſcription Deſpair Difpofition diſcover Diſcovery Diſtreſs Excellence Execution Expreffion exprefs fame fecond feem feen fent feveral fhall leave fhort fhould firft firſt fome foon fuch fufficient fuitable fure Fury Grief guments Iago impoffible Increaſe Inftances Inftruction itſelf Judgment Juſtice laft lago laſt leaft Lear Lear's lefs lence Lord Love Macklin Macklin's Madneſs maſterly Mind Miſtake miſtaken moft moſt Muſcles MUSEUM Transferred 1889 muſt myſelf natural nefs Number Obfervation Occafions Othello Paffage Paffions Perfon pleafed Pleafure Poet prefent Profe Progreſs publick Purpoſe Rage raifing Reaſon Recourſe refolve regard Rife Scene ſeen Senfe Shakespear Speech Tenderneſs thefe theſe thofe thoſe Tincture Trifling Villain whofe
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Page 13 - Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; Let it pry through the portage of the head Like the brass cannon: let the brow o'erwhelm it As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Page 31 - ... Expressions of Grief and Tenderness are very becoming, and they told you Truth; but let not this Persuasion draw you into a Prostitution of the Excellence; for, not to mention that your Judgment will suffer in the Eyes of the Discerning; your hackneying the Passion, and applying it indiscriminately, will take from its Weight, and lower its Force, even with the Injudicious: If you cry one Minute for Joy, and another for Sorrow. . . a Man would be puzzled to know whether you were angry or pleased;...
Page 23 - turns', the norms against which they were measured are reflected in Samuel Foote's grudging admiration for Garrick's depiction of Lear's recovery from madness and recollection of Cordelia: 'the Passions of Joy, Tenderness, Grief, and Shame are blended together in so masterly a Manner, that the Imitation would do Honour to the Pencil of a Rubens, or a [Michel] Angelo'.38 His most recent biographers nevertheless conclude that 'the manner of communicating the passions depended, with Garrick, upon the...
Page 15 - Of this great empire's hatching: there I'll lead thee! But be a man, for thou'rt to mix with men Fit to difturb the peace of all the world, And rule it when it's wildeft — JAFFEIR. I give thee thanks For this kind warning : yes...
Page 11 - Judgment, is into painful and pleafureable, and in this Senfe, all the Paffions may be reduced to Love and Hatred, nay perhaps to one, Love ; and even that may be altogether refolved in-.
Page 14 - G's Figure, and here I am afraid frail Nature has been a little unkind, and tho' I must own I have very distinct Ideas of big and great, yet such is the Folly of the Million, that they expect a more than ordinary Appearance from a Man, who is to perform extraordinary Actions; it is in vain, to tell them, that Charles of Sweden, was but five, feet five, or Alexander the Great, a very little Man, the...
Page 39 - Inspirations you have villainously abused, 111 attack you in the Face of the Audience, and with the Pipe of Gracchus, force you to Moderation, ye Termagants. Although we have only fragments of his Diversions, in which he applied his lash to Quin, Macklin, Barry, and others, we may safely believe that he exerted by his mimicry and writing an influence secondary to none, except, perhaps, Garrick's, in forcing the actors and their public to distinguish...
Page 39 - Macklin understood his subordinate position as a 'dependent . . . nay perhaps a domestic' and gave lago a 'distant obsequious behaviour', never attempting to obtain 'more consequence, or a higher regard than the author has thought fit to allow him; from his modest and decent deportment, you are always taught that he has a superior, both in quality and character, on the stage'.151 The agreement in Foote's mind between the social class of lago and the regard owing to the actor, is curious to a modern...
Page 31 - Mr. B. may be. properly introduced. You have, Sir, I doubt not, been often told; that your...
Page 10 - Passion is applied to the different Motions and Agitations of the Soul, according to the different Objects, that present themselves to the Senses...