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...they utter them. All I mean is, that I would like to know any one of these performers thoroughly, and out of his uniform: that preacher, and why in hi... ...ith great vigour by Snoxall, and the battle of Hastings is a good piece of burlesque. Some trifling liberties are taken with his- tory, but what liber...

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...rge Meredith mencement of a Tragedy, were the curtain to rise again on the performers. In those old days female modesty was pro- tected by a fan, behi... ...g- ure he preserves while stalking through the frantically gro- tesque and burlesque assailing him, are in the loftiest moods of humour, fusing the T ...

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... dis- credit speech with uncouth manners or become uncon- sciously our own burlesques. But of all unfortunates there is one creature (for I will not c... ...ts that are to be played upon the Theatre of Life are filled by gratuitous performers, and pass, among the world at large, as phases of idleness. For ...

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...t, his delicate vein of humour, his happy turn for dialogue, were rendered burlesque and ludicrous by this unmeaning and bizarre dis- guise, and that ... ...ted. These were duties enjoined by our religion itself. (Loud cheers.) The performers are in a particular manner entitled to the support or regard, wh... ...nd he did not hesitate to confess that a want of energy on the part of the performers was the probable cause. A new set of Rules and Regulations were ... ... determined than by the moral character and personal respectability of the performers. He was not one of those stern moralists who objected to the the...

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...of this is, that Boileau’s name was first published to London, by Prior’ s burlesque of what the French- man had called an ode. This gasconading ode c... ...rray, had a sec- ond report proved true, viz. that not the Antigone, but a burlesque on the Antigone, was what he meditated to intro- duce. This turne... ...ily) as a proper ground for relieving the sumptuous dresses of the leading performers. The doors of entrance and exit were most unhappily managed. As ... ...sh name that we are concerned with. 10 ‘False:’ or rather inaccurate. The burlesque was not on the Antigone, but on the Medea of Euripides; and very ...

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...esirable service the deeper they will fall in debt – a 50 Across the Plains burlesque injustice in a new country, where labour should be precious, an... ...now he sees why I speak of the little people as of substantive inventors and performers. To the end they had kept their secret. I will go bail for the...

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...ard any person who invented a new amusement for the occasion. Various public performers contended for the prize. Among them came a Buffoon well known ... ...ac (though published after his death), for the purpose of show ing that the burlesque style of writing adopted by Scarron and D’Assouci, and at that ...

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... we started off to a singing-house where Jack was expected to muster strong. The vocalisation was taking place in a long low room up- stairs; at one e... ...mber of degrees of latitude. All the nine rolled their eyes exceedingly, and had very red lips. At the extremities of the curve they formed, seated in... ...upside down. There were likewise a little flute and a violin. All went well for Charles Dickens 328 awhile, and we had had several sparkling repartee... ...e the toils of this hunter, that on the very next night after that, I was again entrapped, where no vestige of a spring could have been apprehended by...

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...heard of a book of chivalry, who could not possibly feel the humour of the burlesque or sympathise with the author’s purpose. Another curious fact is ... ...d of a mere string of farci- cal misadventures, he were to make his tale a burlesque of one of these books, caricaturing their style, incidents, and s... ...her than the incidents of the chivalry romances that is the subject of the burlesque. Enchant- ments of the sort travestied in those of Dulcinea and t... ... Quixote’s passion for Dulcinea, and in no instance has he carried out the burlesque more happily. By keeping Dulcinea in the background, and making h... ...d to and seen played out the tragedy of the death of his honour, which the performers acted with such wonderfully effective truth that it seemed as if... ... the masses as well as the higher orders, and brought in more money to the performers, these three alone, than thirty of the best that have been since...

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...heard of a book of chivalry, who could not possibly feel the humour of the burlesque or sympathise with the author’s purpose. Another curious fact is ... ...d of a mere string of farci- cal misadventures, he were to make his tale a burlesque of one of these books, caricaturing their style, incidents, and s... ...her than the incidents of the chivalry romances that is the subject of the burlesque. Enchant- ments of the sort travestied in those of Dulcinea and t... ... Quixote’s passion for Dulcinea, and in no instance has he carried out the burlesque more happily. By keeping Dulcinea in the background, and making h... ...d to and seen played out the tragedy of the death of his honour, which the performers acted with such wonderfully effective truth that it seemed as if... ... the masses as well as the higher orders, and brought in more money to the performers, these three alone, than thirty of the best that have been since... ...xecuted its figures, and delivered its verses, some of them graceful, some burlesque, but Don Quixote’s memory (though he had an excellent one) only c...

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...mpt anything where I am now, with my little half acre. It would be quite a burlesque. But if I had more room, I should take a prodigious delight in im... ...earest connexions of the family had destroyed the scheme and dispersed the performers. To be so near hap- piness, so near fame, so near the long parag... ...afraid of the result. We bespeak your indulgence, you understand, as young performers; we bespeak your indulgence.” “My indulgence shall be given, sir...

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...ercise, and the mazy confusion of a country-dance, where the inexperienced performers were every now and then running against each other, and com- pel... ... airs of which are generally known, there is a kind of freemasonry amongst performers, by which they can, by the mere choice of a tune, express a grea... ...ER, a Greek soothsayer. ALDEBORONTIPHOSCOPHORNIO, a courtier in H. Carey’s burlesque, Chronhotonthologos. ALIMENTARY, nourishing. ALQUIFE, an enchante... ...r. REMEDIUM JURIS, legal remedy. RIGDUM-FUNNIDOS, a courtier in H. Carey’s burlesque, Chrononhotonthologos. RIPE, search. RUDAS, a scold, a virago. RU...

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...crimi- nis in a sin against nature if I don’t!’ Mr. Romfrey interjected in burlesque of his ridiculous nephew, with collapsing laugh- ter. But he expr... ...urgeois. Match them with the trained orchestral band of skilled individual performers, indoors or out, where each grasps his instrument, and each reli... ...rnative of breaking her pledged word to her father, or of letting Nevil be burlesqued in the sight of the town, could no longer be dallied with. Cecil... ...ew candidate to Bevisham with the battle-axe Romfreys to back him, in high burlesque of Timothy Turbot upon Beauchamp: and Cecil hoped his cousin woul... ...s well as women are to sacrifice their passions on that altar. If he could burlesque himself it would be in coming out as a cleric—the old Pagan!’ ‘Di... ... ‘These people are caricatures,’ Tuckham said, in apology for poor England burlesqued abroad. ‘You must not general- ize on them. Footmen are footmen ...

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...ents. The book-keeping of The Orb and all the rest of them was certainly a burlesque revelation but the public did not care for revelations of that ki... ...esting young pianist (a girl) who, since, had become one of the recognized performers. Mrs. Fyne did not dare leave her house. As to the feelings of l...

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...ost popular steps of a hornpipe, with a The Pickwick Papers 172 slang and burlesque caricature of grace and lightness, which, combined with the very ... ...ession; while a third, seated on one of the bedsteads, was applauding both performers with the air of a profound connoisseur, and encouraging them by ...

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...ng himself of Dickie’s hints, began to state that he belonged to a band of performers to which his presence was indispensable, that he had been accide... ...s. The whole exhibition was to be considered as a sort of anti- masque, or burlesque of the more stately pageants in which the nobility and gentry bor... ...ayed, it is certain the Queen laughed heartily at the imitation, or rather burlesque, of chivalry which was presented in the Coventry play. She called...

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... tacle for the people, and asked him to lend him some purple robes for the performers in a chorus, he told him he would go home and see, and if he had... ...of the Parthians, to them, and to Jason, the actor, a talent. Such was the burlesque that was played, they tell us, as the afterpiece to the tragedy o...

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...e contrary, realism is carried to the point at which nobody except the two performers can perceive that the caress is not genuine. And here the Englis... ...well. I have seen performances of my own plays which were to me far wilder burlesques than Sheridan’s Critic 13 Shaw or Buckingham’s Rehearsal; yet t...

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... preserving the ludicrous instead of the sublime. In the diction, I think, burlesque itself may be sometimes admitted; of which many instances will oc... ...ted out to the classical reader, for whose entertainment those parodies or burlesque imita- tions are chiefly calculated. But though we have sometimes... ...ters; for there it is never properly introduced, unless in writings of the burlesque kind, which this is not intended to be. Indeed, no two species of... ...d, no two species of writing can differ more widely than the comic and the burlesque; for as the latter is ever the exhibition of what is monstrous an... ...ccurate observer with the ridiculous. I have hinted this little concerning burlesque, because I have often heard that name given to performances which... ... among the polite readers; for you can’t say it had justice done it by the performers.”— “I think,” answered the player, “the performers did the dis- ...

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...wn’s jokes were the same, the riding-masters were equally grand, the comic performers equally witty, the tragedians equally hoarse, and the ‘highly-tr... ...nce of some shabby street, on the Surrey side of Waterloo-bridge. The lady performers pay nothing for their characters, and it is needless to add, are... ...f society; the audiences are necessarily of much the same character as the performers, who receive, in return for their contributions to the managemen... ...t at all anxious to have it up again, and speak familiarly of the inferior performers as Bill Such-a-one, and Ned So-and-so, or tell each other how a ... ...theatrical coffee-shop! They are the kings of the place, supposing no real performers to be present; and roll about, hats on one side, and arms a-kimb... ...sing person in the House. Can anything be more exquisitely absurd than the burlesque grandeur of his air, as he strides up to the lobby, his eyes roll...

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...wn’s jokes were the same, the riding-masters were equally grand, the comic performers equally witty, the tragedians equally hoarse, and the ‘highly-tr... ...nce of some shabby street, on the Surrey side of Waterloo-bridge. The lady performers pay nothing for their characters, and it is needless to add, are... ...f society; the audiences are necessarily of much the same character as the performers, who receive, in return for their contributions to the managemen... ...t at all anxious to have it up again, and speak familiarly of the inferior performers as Bill Such-a-one, and Ned So-and-so, or tell each other how a ... ...theatrical coffee-shop! They are the kings of the place, supposing no real performers to be present; and roll about, hats on one side, and arms a-kimb... ...sing person in the House. Can anything be more exquisitely absurd than the burlesque grandeur of his air, as he strides up to the lobby, his eyes roll...

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...?’ ‘Is Con at all likely, do you think, Philip?’ ‘He might: and become the burlesque Irishman of the House. There must be one, and the lot would be sa... ...ion. The tremen- dous import of that wag of his tail among the nations was burlesqued by them, and it came into collision with Mr. Rumford’s legendary... ...is a love resembling the affection of the stage-box for a set of favourite performers, and Patrick, a Celt who had schooled his wits to observe and me...

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...ttempt any thing where I am now, with my little half acre. It would be quite a burlesque. But if I had more room, I should take a prodigious delight i... ...e nearest connections of the family had destroyed the scheme and dispersed the performers. To be so near happiness, so near fame, so near the long par... ... be afraid of the result. We bespeak your indulgence, you understand, as young performers; we bespeak your indulgence.” “My indulgence shall be given,...

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...ini, as that he is an eminent Grecian.’ Gold- smith. ‘The greatest musical performers have but small emoluments. Giardini, I am told, does not get abo... ...nger subject himself to be hissed by a mob, or to be insolently treated by performers, whom he used to rule with a high hand, and who would gladly ret... ...vening he thus gave his opinion upon the merits of some of the princi- pal performers whom he remembered to have seen upon the stage. “Mrs. Porter in ... ...agined they were turning into ridicule. There is not similarity enough for burlesque, or even for caricature. 650 Boswell’s Life of Johnson ‘TO MR. G...