...ocratic portion of the community. It was like Paris when the audience of a theatre disperses. Certain persons who talk much of poesy and know noth- in... ...this:— Under the secret inspiration of du Bousquier the idea of building a theatre had dawned on Alencon. The henchmen of the purveyor did not know th... ...wn concep- tion. Athanase Granson was one of the warmest partisans for the theatre; and of late he had urged at the mayor’s office 67 Balzac a cause ... ...conduct may exert upon his future? He is working for the construction of a theatre. In this affair he is simply the dupe of that disguised republican ... ...l him not to intrigue with the Bonapartists, as he is now doing about that theatre. When all these petty folks cease to ask for it insurrectionally ,—... ...n fault. He is irreligious and liberal; he is agitating this matter of the theatre; he frequents the Bonapartists; he takes the side of that rector. S... ...enultimate en- tree was reached, had turned naturally on the affair of the theatre and the constitutionally sworn rector. In the first fer- vor of roy... ...Monsieur de Valois of sustaining the priest and being at the bottom of the theatre intrigues, and on whose back the adroit chevalier would in any case...

...ans of bring- ing about an important change in his destiny. One day at the theatre—Motchalov was then at the height of his fame and Lavretsky did not ... ...r appearance; nevertheless, Varvara Pavlovna was assiduous in visiting the theatres. She went into raptures over Italian music, yawned decorously at t... ... hers in the dramatic works of M. Dumas Fils. She diligently frequents the theatres, when consumptive and sentimental “dames aux camelias” are brought...

...ewer in 1789, and a colonel in the time 9 Balzac of the Republic.” “I bet theatre tickets round that he never was a soldier,” said Godeschal. “Done w... ...hich all the onomatopeia of the language would fail to rep- resent. “Which theatre shall we go to?” “T o the opera,” cried the head clerk. “In the fir... ...first place,” said Godeschal, “I never mentioned 10 Colonel Chabert which theatre. I might, if I chose, take you to see Madame Saqui.” “Madame Saqui ... ...d, “that Curtius’ W axworks forms such a show as might be called a play or theatre. It contains a thing to be seen at various prices, according to the...

...d Douglas was a Senator from Illinois, Lincoln’s State. Douglas’s national theatre of action was the Senate, but in his constituency in Illinois were ... ..., and the political campaign languished. Neither were the tidings from the theatre of war of a cheer- ing character. The terrible losses suffered by G... ...egislator in Springfield, the new capital of Illinois, furnished a fitting theatre for the development and display of his great faculties, and, with h...

...bly, was Milton’s state of feeling towards Shakspeare after 1642, when the theatres were suppressed, and the fanatical fervor in its noontide heat. Ye... ...discharging a duty, which once due will be due for ever; the saints of the theatre, on the other hand, must bend to the local genius, and to the very ... ...ortune pursued the vestiges of the mighty poet’s steps. In 1613, the Globe theatre, with which he had been so long connected, was burned to the ground... ..., in the first place, from the chief magistrate, a license for open- ing a theatre, and next, over and above this public sanction, to seek his persona... ...een recently ascertained that he held a share in the property of a leading theatre. We must here stop to notice, and the reader will allow us to notic... ...are as having from the very first been borne upon the establishment of the theatre, and so far contradicts the other fable, but originally in the very... ...akspeare was a shareholder in the important property of a principal London theatre. It seems destined that all the undoubted facts of Shakspeare’s lif... ...e of his own, which the duty of Shakspeare to the general interests of the theatre had obliged him to make. In 1591 it has been supposed that Shakspea... ... often, and latterly once a year. In 1589 he had possessed some share in a theatre; in 1596 he had a considerable share. Through Lord Southampton, 48...

...in’s Isle of Gramarye, Where you and I will fare. THE CHILDREN were at the Theatre, acting to Three Cows as much as they could remember of Midsummer N... ...tom. Una was Titania, with a wreath of columbines and a foxglove wand. The Theatre lay in a meadow called the Long Slip. A little mill-stream, carryin... ...nder it, also as far as the eye can stretch, houses and temples, shops and theatres, barracks and granaries, trickling along like dice behind—always b... ...ing, and they meant to divide the cabbage-leaf with Three Cows down at the Theatre, but they came across a dead hedgehog which they simply had to bury...

... added those who have the care of their gymnastic exercises, [1323a] their theatres, and every other public spectacle which there may happen to be. So... ... harmony and such the music which those who contend with each other in the theatre should exhibit: but as the audience is composed of two sorts of peo... ...e gives pleasure to every one, therefore those who are to contend upon the theatre should be al- lowed to use this species of music. But in education ...

...forces that link life to life in modern commu- nities. It had no shops, no theatres, no lectures, no “business block”; only a church that was opened e... ...l trolley-run to the Lake grew irresistible, and they struggled out of the theatre. As they stood on the pavement, Harney pale with the heat, and even...

... his Personal pleasure and adorn ments, repairs half price to the Adelphi Theatre at least three times a week, dissipates majestically at the cider c... ...oms, and met divisions of the mass. After this, they went home. If it were theatre night, perhaps they met at the theatre; if it were assembly night, ... ...k in spectacles, were like those of a crowd to get in at the pit door of a theatre when Gracious Majesty honours it with its presence. Another functio... ...a solemn countenance, ‘has comic powers that would do honour to Drury Lane Theatre.’ ‘Has he indeed?’ said Mr. Pickwick. ‘ Ah, by Jove he has!’ replie... ...s hand before, ex cept once when he played Richard the Third at a private theatre, upon which occasion it was arranged with Rich mond that he was to...

...ther, I have done something for you that you will like. I have been to the theatre, and secured a box for to- morrow night. A’n’t I a good boy? I know...

...‘A mere nothing. I had a headache—gone now—and was not quite fit for a hot theatre, so I stayed at home. I asked you if you were not well, because you...

...entury. The first chapter, upon the exterior form of North America, as the theatre upon which the great drama is to be enacted, for graphic and pictur... ... schools do not receive the child of the black and of the European. In the theatres, gold cannot procure a seat for the servile race beside their form... ...affect a class of the community, it instantly draws them to the stage. The theatres of aristocratic nations have always been filled with spectators no... ...lways been filled with spectators not belonging to the aristocracy. At the theatre alone the higher ranks mix with the middle and the lower classes; t... ...of the latter, or at least to allow them to give an opinion at all. At the theatre, men of cultivation and of liter- ary attainments have always had m... ...or an aristocracy to prevent the people from getting the upper hand in the theatre, it will readily be understood that the people will be supreme ther... ...ally, and, 558 Democracy in America so to speak, legally modified; at the theatre they will be riot- ously overthrown. The drama brings out most of t... ...clusion that the democratic classes have not yet got the upper hand of the theatres. Racine makes a very humble apology in the preface to the “Britann... ...ut the audience and the readers in that age were the same: on quitting the theatre they called up the author for judgment to their own firesides. In d...

...ong by a babble of impossible forms, as fantastic as any that our Lon- don theatres have traditionally ascribed to English rustics, to English sailors... ...e to modifi- cation from personal qualities, inasmuch as there is no great theatre (as with us) for individual display. Forensic eloquence is unknown ... ...e irresolute Christian in the fascinations of the public amuse- ments. The theatre, the circus, and, far beyond both, the cruel amphitheatre, constitu... ...ncey ing the functions of the circus and the amphitheatre; and there was a theatre. From all such pleasures the Christian was sternly excluded by his ... ...et. Laudabat quippe ferientes, hortabaturque ut auderent.” When one of our theatres let down an iron cur- tain upon the stage as a means of insulating...

...w humour, when there was no laughable play to witness in any of the London theatres, and when the season of the year was unsuitable to those field spo... ...esources. He was in dress, for he had entertained the notion of visiting a theatre. But the great city was new to him; he had gone from a provincial s... ...versation with loiterers in the Champs Elysees, and nightly frequented the theatre. He had his whole toilette fashionably renewed; and was shaved and ... ...h, on the Saturday afternoon, he betook him- self to the box-office of the theatre in the Rue Richelieu. No sooner had he mentioned his name than the ... ...him.” Francis did not wait to be twice told; he ran precipitately from the theatre into the middle of the street and looked in all directions. More th... ...hose shutters.” By an early hour on Sunday Francis was in his place at the theatre. The seat which had been taken for him was only two or three number... ... leave it for a moment out of sight; and whilst he scanned the rest of the theatre, or made a show of attending to the business of the stage, he alway... ...ical footsteps, and suffered the crowd to carry him unresisting out of the theatre. Once in the street, the pressure ceasing, he came to a halt, and t... ...ve by Almavivery alone; and the Great Creature, having failed upon several theatres, was obliged to step down every evening from his heights, and sing...

...was not acted till 1749, when his friend David Garrick was manager of that theatre. The Gentleman’s Magazine, begun and car- ried on by Mr. Edward Cav... ...d, David Garrick, having become joint pat- entee and manager of Drury-lane theatre, Johnson honoured his opening of it with a Pro- logue, which for ju... ...rick being now vested with theatrical power by being manager of Drury-lane theatre, he kindly and generously made use of it to bring out Johnson’s tra... ..., which was spoken by Mr. Garrick before the acting of Comus at Drury-lane theatre, for the 76 Boswell’s Life of Johnson benefit of Milton’s grand-da... ...t Johnson’s desire he had, some years before, given a benefit-night at his theatre to this very person, by which she had got two hundred pounds. Johns... ...nker, sat by us. Gold- smith. ‘I think, Mr. Johnson, you don’t go near the theatres now. You give yourself no more concern about a new play, than if y... ...ted, with too much forwardness, to rally him on his late appearance at the theatre; but had reason to repent of his temerity. ‘Why, Sir, did you go to... ...the evening we went to the Town-hall, which was converted into a temporary theatre, and saw Theodosius, with The Stratford Jubilee. I was happy to see... ... in London, Richard Savage, was brought out with alterations at Drury-lane theatre. The Prologue to it was written by Mr. Richard Brinsley Sheridan; i...

...resorted for support to playing a clarionet as dirty as himself in a small Theatre Orchestra. It was the theatre in which his niece became a dancer; h... ...g herself with the quiet effort that had long been natural to her, ‘to the theatre where my sister is engaged.’ ‘And oh ain’t it a Ev’nly place,’ sudd... ...r Cripples’s, she found that both her sister and her uncle had gone to the theatre where they were engaged. Having taken thought of this probability b... ...ettled that in such case she would follow them, she set off afresh for the theatre, which was on that side of the river, and not very far away. Little... ...and not very far away. Little Dorrit was almost as ignorant of the ways of theatres as of the ways of gold mines, and when she was directed to a furti... ...er with a hard sound. ‘As your sister will tell you, when I found what the theatre was I was much surprised and much distressed. But when I found that... ...—moving in Society—can be susceptible of, I determined to go myself to the theatre, and represent my state of mind to the dancer. I made myself known ...

...resorted for support to playing a clarionet as dirty as himself in a small Theatre Orchestra. It was the theatre in which his niece became a dancer; h... ...g herself with the quiet effort that had long been natural to her, ‘to the theatre where my sister is engaged.’ ‘And oh ain’t it a Ev’nly place,’ sudd... ...r Cripples’s, she found that both her sister and her uncle had gone to the theatre where they were engaged. Having taken thought of this probability b... ...ettled that in such case she would follow them, she set off afresh for the theatre, which was on that side of the river, and not very far away. Little... ...and not very far away. Little Dorrit was almost as ignorant of the ways of theatres as of the ways of gold mines, and when she was directed to a furti... ...er with a hard sound. ‘As your sister will tell you, when I found what the theatre was I was much surprised and much distressed. But when I found that... ...—moving in Society—can be susceptible of, I determined to go myself to the theatre, and represent my state of mind to the dancer. I made myself known ... ...y en- tered their box, and Mr Sparkler entered on an evening of agony. The theatre being dark, and the box light, several visitors lounged in during t... ...h the rugged remains of temples and tombs and palaces and senate halls and theatres and amphitheatres of ancient days, hosts of tongue-tied and blindf...

...o be keenly felt, and Mr. Yates could talk of nothing else. Ecclesford and its theatre, with its arrangements and dresses, rehearsals and jokes, was h... ... and to boast of the past his only consolation. Happily for him, a love of the theatre is so general, an itch for acting so strong among young people,... ...rry to withdraw; and to make you amends, Yates, I think we must raise a little theatre at Mansfield, and ask you to be our manager.” This, though the t... ...velty of acting. The thought returned again and again. “Oh! for the Ecclesford theatre and scenery to try something with.” Each sister could echo the ... ...t these countenances I am sure,” looking towards the Miss Bertrams, “and for a theatre, what signifies a theatre? We shall be only amusing ourselves. A... .... We must rather adopt Mr. Crawford’s views, and make the performance, not the theatre, our object. Many parts of our best plays are independent of sc... ...ten with alarm. “Let us do nothing by halves. If we are to act, let it be in a theatre completely fitted up with pit, box, and gallery, and let us have... ...t again. But one good thing I have just ascertained. It is the very room for a theatre, precisely the shape and length for it, and the doors at the fa... ...g Edmund, “I must hope it will be in a very small and quiet way; and I think a theatre ought not to be attempted. — It would be taking liberties with ...

...arch of diversion, for which they pay as they pay for the pleasures of the theatre, or of gluttony, or they come hither as to some garret where they c... ...t of virtue thus?” cried Cursy. “Virtue, the subject of every drama at the theatre, the denoument of 46 The Magic Skin every play, the foundation of ... ...I would wake at length in tears. “Once, when she had promised to go to the theatre with me, she took it suddenly into her head to refuse to go out, an... ... as we went out. Foedora’s carriage was unable to reach the doorway of the theatre. At the sight of a well-dressed woman about to cross the street, a ... ...eous schemes of vengeance without end. “I often used to go with her to the theatre. Love utterly absorbed me as I sat beside her; as I looked at her I... ...ty. “There was a craze just then for praising a play at a little Boulevard theatre, prompted perhaps by a wish to appear original that besets us all, ... ... stant perplexities were the bane of my life. “We had once come out of the theatre when it was raining heavily, Foedora had called a cab for me before... ... complained of the heavy scent of a Mexican jessamine. The interior of the theatre, the bare bench on which she was to sit, filled her with intoler- a... ...f a coun- terfeit passion displayed at the cost of five francs paid at the theatre door. I had drawn tears from her. “‘If I had known—’ she said. “‘Do...

...on her face. She had reminded him in the morning that they were going to the theatre. Sarah Bernhardt was visiting the town and they had a box, which ...

...in the last extremity of distress. He had had a play accepted at a certain Theatre—which was really open; its representation was de layed by the indi... ...tal posses sions. 44 Reprinted Pieces Then, we have a commodious and gay Theatre—or had, for it is burned down now—where the opera was always preced... ...piers and other such places, you must be able, besides, to give orders for theatres and public exhibitions, or you would be 57 Charles Dickens sure t... ...thirst: which led (His Majesty said) to the presentation of your orders at Theatre doors, by individuals who were ‘too shakery’ to derive intellectual... ... which I no sooner did than I whirled off in spite of myself to Drury Lane Theatre, and there saw a great actor and dear friend of mine (whom I had be... ...d put it away. I went at night to the benefit of Mrs. B. Wedgington at the Theatre, who had placarded the town with the admoni tion, ‘Don’t forget it... ...es are represented in a most agreeable manner; they are seen in an elegant theatre, fitted with appropriate scenery of great beauty, and they are desc... .... In like manner, Paris is a civilised city, and 102 Reprinted Pieces the Theatre Francais a highly civilised theatre; and we shall never hear, and n... ... under the auspices of that brave child, ‘ Meat chell,’ at the St. James’s Theatre the night before last) has a pine apple in her lap. Compact Enchant...

... XVIII.—ON TRAGEDY T HE ENGLISH as well as the Spaniards were possessed of theatres at a time when the French had no more than moving, itinerant stage... ...ontemporary with Lopez de V ega, and he cre- ated, as it were, the English theatre. Shakspeare boasted a strong fruitful genius. He was natural and su...

...enighted foreigners. Those of them who did not think it wrong to go to the theatre liked above every- thing a play in which the hero was called Dick; ... ...en. I should like to have Rejjy for every day, and Sinjon for concerts and theatres and going out in the evenings, and some great austere saint for ab... ...the people who believe in it, and whose chief amusement it is to go to the theatres where it is laughed at. Soames: youre a Communist, arnt you? SOAME...

...t. In the wide field of Western territory, therefore, we perceive an ample theatre for hostile pretensions, without any umpire or common judge to inte... ...ecomes elevated above the civil. The inhabitants of territories, often the theatre of war, are unavoid- ably subjected to frequent infringements on th... ...ch comprehended the less important cities only , made little figure on the theatre of Greece. When the former became a victim to Macedon, the latter w... ...much of the attention and conversation of every class of people. The great theatre of the United States presents a very different scene. The laws are ...

... so ciety be upon such terms, it will be only like Cato’s coming into the theatre, tantum ut exiret. Such a con stitution as this would make the mig...

...ed was now greatly larger, and she felt not unlike some young woman of the theatre who, engaged for a minor part in the play and having mastered her c... ...ncer of a difficult step who had capered, before the footlights of an empty theatre, to a spectator lounging in a box. Her best comprehension of Amerig...

... so truly does it recall the energetic diction of the father of our modern theatre. Yet the poet was forced to sacrifice it to the essentially vaudevi... ...hat at the moment when they entered the avenue a crowd just issuing from a theatre was passing at the upper end of the street. The cries of the dying ... ... two streets which led to the house. A dozen gendarmes, returning from the theatre, had climbed the walls of the garden, and guarded all exit in that ...

...m; faithful for long to the same restaurant, the same church, and the same theatre, chosen simply for propinquity; stead- fastly refusing to dine out.... ...ith words and for a while inhabit a palace of delights, temple at once and theatre, where they fill the round of the world’s dignities, and feast with... ...ny real existence; and come forth again when the talk is over, as out of a theatre or a dream, to find the east wind still blowing and the chimney-pot... ... revivals, for he had successfully pressed on Murray, of the old Edinburgh Theatre, the idea of produc- ing Shakespeare’s fairy pieces with great scen... ...hat. In the Leith Walk window, all the year round, there stood displayed a theatre in working order, with a “forest set,” a “combat,” and a few “robbe... ...oor penny world; but soon it was all coloured with romance. If I go to the theatre to see a good old melodrama, ’tis but Skelt a little faded. If I vi... ...mes; acquired a gallery of scenes and characters with which, in the silent theatre of the brain, I might enact all novels and romances; and took from ... ...th such material as this it is impossible to build a play, for the serious theatre exists solely on moral grounds, and is a standing proof of the diss... ...e peculiarity of our attitude to any art. No art produces illusion; in the theatre we never forget that we are in the theatre; and while we read a sto...

...nd entertainment, at which the celebrated Madame Amenaide, a dancer of the theatre at Paris, was to perform, under the patronage of several English an... ...ll street than a bridge;”—of Bankside, and the “Globe” and the “For- tune” Theatres; of the ferries across the river, and of the pi- rates who infest ...

...s, and tor- tured him intimately by the spectacle of its horrors. It was a theatre, it was a place of education, it was like a season of religious rev... ...ll positive qualities, even those which are disreputable, in the capacious theatre of their dispositions. Such can live many lives; while a Thoreau ca... ...e housetop.” So Kusakabe, from the highlands of Satzuma, passed out of the theatre of this world. His death was like an antique worthy’s. A little aft... ... as we are accustomed to hear only on the stress of actual life, or in the theatre. In history – where we see things as in a glass darkly, and the fas... ...f his wife or skulking from a bailiff, he would equally take refuge in the theatre. There, if the house be full and the company noble, if the songs be... ...uch of penitence stronger than what might lead him to take his wife to the theatre, or for an airing, or to give her a new dress, by way of compensati...