Will in that station, was the faint, general, and almost lost ideas, he had of having once seen him act a part in one of his own comedies, wherein being to personate a decrepit old man, he wore a long beard, and appeared so weak and drooping and unable... Shakespeare's Plays: With His Life - Page 45by William Shakespeare - 1847Full view - About this book
| William Shakespeare - 1897 - 200 pages
...was the faint, general, and almost lost ideas he had of having once seen him act a part in one of his own comedies, wherein, being to personate a decrepit...eating, and one of them sung a song." This description applies accurately to the entrance of Orlando with Adam at the end of the second act. After the Restoration... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - England - 1897 - 228 pages
...could recall nothing except the faint impression that he had once seen " Will" act a part in one of his own comedies, wherein, being to personate a decrepit...among some company who were eating, and one of them sang a song. And that was Shakespeare! The whole Bankside, with its taverns, 96 THE SWAN THEATRE, 1596... | |
| Walter Pater - 1901 - 172 pages
...lost ideas he had of having once seen him act a part in one of his own comedies, wherein being present to personate a decrepit old man, he wore a long beard,...among some company who were eating, and one of them sang a song." This description applies to old Adam in As You Like It. Many are the evidences that Shakespeare's... | |
| William James Rolfe - Dramatists, English - 1904 - 606 pages
...was the faint, general, and almost lost ideas he had of having once seen him act a part in one of his own comedies, wherein, being to personate a decrepit...some company who were eating, and one of them sung them a song." According to Rowe, the dramatist played "the Ghost in his own Hamlet." John Davies, of... | |
| Charles Isaac Elton, Andrew Lang - 1904 - 552 pages
...was the faint, general, and almost lost ideas he had of having once seen him act a part in one of his own comedies, wherein, being to personate a decrepit...among some company who were eating, and one of them sang a song." It seems that neither Davenant nor Betterton knew of this tradition, or of the more trustworthy... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - American essays - 1904 - 434 pages
...recall nothing except the faint impression that he had once seen " Will " act a part in one of his own comedies, wherein, being to personate a decrepit...among some company who were eating, and one of them sang a song. And that was Shakespeare! The whole Bankside, with its taverns, play-houses, and worse,... | |
| William Davenport Adams - Actors - 1904 - 652 pages
...was the faint, general, and almost lost ideas he had of having once seen him act a part in one of his own comedies, wherein, being to personate a decrepit...table, at which he was seated among some company who wore eating, and one of them sung a song." This would certainly appear to refer to act ii. sc. 0 and... | |
| Walter Pater - English literature - 1906 - 174 pages
...lost ideas he had of having once seen him act a part in one of his own comedies, wherein being present to personate a decrepit old man, he wore a long beard,...among some company who were eating, and one of them sang a song." This description applies to old Adam in As You Like It. Many are the evidences that Shakespeare's... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1895 - 930 pages
...remembered to have seen Will act a part in one of his own comedies, " wherein being to personate a decrepid old man, he wore a long beard, and appeared so weak...among some company, who were eating, and one of them sang a song." This seems clearly to point to Act 2, Scene VII., of " As you Like It," in which Orlando... | |
| James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - Dramatists, English - 1909 - 236 pages
...was the faint, general, and almost lost ideas he had of having once seen him act a part in one of his own comedies, wherein, being to personate a decrepit...who were eating, and one of them sung a song." This account contains several discrepancies, but there is reason for believing that it includes a glimmering... | |
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