 I come, kind gentlemen, strange news to tell ye, I am the ghost of poor departed Nelly. Sweet ladies, be not frighted, I'll...  Thomas Betterton - Stran 53avtor: Robert William Lowe - 1891 - 196 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | John Dryden - 1854 - 324 strani
...make. EPILOGUE. Spoken by NELL GWYN, when she was to be carried off dead by the Bearers. TO THE REARER. HOLD ! are you mad? you damned, confounded dog! I am to rise, and speak the epilogue. TO THE AUDIENCE. I come, kind gentlemen, strange news to tell ye; I am the ghost of poor departed Nelly.... | |
 | 1855 - 560 strani
...stanza in the canto 1 This wondrous bard stops, and we are about to proceed, •when he sings out, Hold ! are you mad ? you damned confounded dog ; I am to rise and speak the epilogue ! and proceeds to say, That the one-day's tailor, snob, or tinker, If ay be to-morrow's greatest thinker... | |
 | John Dryden - 1897 - 764 strani
...EPILOGUE. Spoken />\' MRS. FIIFN when she was IP />f carried off i/fatf fry the Rearers.* TO THE DRARKR. Hold ! are you mad? you damned, confounded dog ! I am to rise, and speak the epilogue. TO THE AUniF.NCF. I come, kind gentlemen, strange news to tell ye ; 1 am the ghost of poor departed... | |
 | David Masson - 1880 - 874 strani
...slowly off the stage as a corpse, when, resuming her natural character, she addressed her bearer, — " Hold ! are you mad ? you damned confounded dog ! I am to rise and speak the epilogue ; " and then, running to the footlights, began — " I come, kind gentlemen, strange news to tell ye... | |
 | Dutton Cook - 1876 - 344 strani
...abrupt beginning of what was a very ludicrous but at the same time thought a very good epilogue — Hold ! are you mad ? you damned confounded dog, I am to rise and speak the epilogue ! " " This diverting manner," " Philomedes" pro-- ceeds, " was always practised by Mr. Dryden, who,... | |
 | David Masson - 1880 - 880 strani
...corpse, when, resuming her natural character, she addressed her bearer, — " Hold ! are you mad t you damned confounded dog ! I am to rise and speak the epilogue ; " and then, running to the footlights, began — " I come, kind gentlemen, strange news to tell ye... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1881 - 216 strani
...Catharine, and being about to be carried out by the scene-shifters, exclaims, — I^oldT are you mad P you damned confounded dog, I am to rise and speak the epilogue, is only a very mild sample of these licences, upon which Macaulay has commented with a severity which... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1884 - 202 strani
...the play, left for dead upon the stage. Her body having to be removed, the actress suddenly started to her feet, exclaiming, " Hold ! are you mad ? you...confounded dog, I am to rise and speak the epilogue !" ' *-/ By way of compensation, however, the writers of the ( period poured forth their real feelings... | |
 | Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy - 1885 - 344 strani
...merry beyond belief. ' Hold !' she cried out to one of them, as she suddenly started to life — ' Hold ! are you mad ? you damned confounded dog ! I am to rise and speak the epilogue.' YOUNG JACK SPENCER. 71 Before the year 1667 ended, she had several times visited his majesty at Whitehall.... | |
 | 1885 - 788 strani
...personage who was supposed to be bearing away her lifeless body, she exclaimed — " Hold ! let me stay, you damned, confounded dog ! I am to rise and speak the epilogue." Roscius Anglicanus, in his " Historical Review of the Stage from the Restoration until 1706," speaks... | |
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