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"I am thinking if some little, filching, inquisitive poet should get my story, and represent it to the stage, what those ladies who are never precise but at a play would say of me now, that I were a confident, coming piece, I warrant, and they would damn the poor poet for libelling the sex." VANRINGHAM, a play-actor and a Jacobite emissary. MR. LANGTON, secretary to Ormskirk.
They don't seem to have ever seen a gentleman and a professional before." "Then you're a play-actor now?" said the farmer, in a tone which did not, however, exhibit the exact degree of admiration which shone in Phoebe's eyes. "For the present," said Jim, with lofty indifference.
'When people are poor, they are poor, the Countess said, with her usual outspokenness, 'and must get on the best they can. What we shall do for that poor Maria, goodness only knows! we can't ask her to see us as we can you, though you are so poor: but an earl's daughter to marry a play-actor! La, my dear, it's dreadful: his Majesty and the Princess have both spoken of it!
Tacit enough, unconscious almost, not given to articulate itself at all; and if there be less of piety than we could wish in the silence of it, there is at least no play-actor mendacity, or cant of devoutness, to poison the high worth of it. No braver little figure stands on the Earth at that epoch.
He had always the South Shields chapel at the back of his mind, with its austere code and creed, and he felt keenly the degradation of lowering himself to the level of the play-actor; even though he was earning his bare existence and had been doing all through the heart of barbarous Africa by mumming and carolling to tribes whose trade was murder and cannibalism.
First the voice of the crier, "So shall it be done to every man who is an enemy of the Kaid, and to every woman who is a play-actor and a cheat." Then the voice of the soldier, "Balak! Balak!" After that a multitudinous din that seemed to break off sharply and then to come muffled and dense as from the other side of the closed gate.
My experience, sir, is that a wise man holds his tongue until he's called upon to use it. Now, in my opinion, it was a very unwise thing of yon there sea-going man, Ewbank, to say that this unfortunate play-actor told him that he'd met our Squire in America very unfortunate!" Copplestone pricked his ears. Had the estate agent come there to tell him that? And if so, why? "Oh!" he said.
You may marshal your arguments and concoct your pretty devices of words, and work yourself into a great heat in the speaking of them; but if you do not believe what you say you are only a play-actor after all a poor mummer reciting your own lines. You had far better be a professional actor; that will, at least, insure you excellent lines to declaim.
Simple honest Orson of a Prussian Majesty, what a bepainted, beribboned insulting Play-actor Majesty has he fallen in with! "Hm, so? Hm, na!" and I see the face of him, all colors of the prism, and eyes in a fine frenzy; betokening thundery weather to some people!
You was born to be a play-actor, sir! I declare that Jem Mace have given me a turn that But why disguise yourself in this way, Mr Brooke?" "Because I am going to haunt the low lodging-houses, Mrs Butt and I could not well do that, you know, in the character of a gentleman; and as you have taken it so amiably I'm glad I tried my hand here first, for it will make me feel much more at ease."
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