FREE BOOKS

Author's List




PREV.   NEXT  
|<   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   11   12   13   14   15   16   17   18   19   20   21   22   23   24   25   26  
27   28   29   30   31   32   33   34   35   36   37   38   39   40   41   42   43   44   45   46   47   48   49   50   51   >>   >|  
are happy havens.--_Shakespeare_ XII.--There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio.--_Shakespeare_ XIII.--Life is mostly froth and bubble.--_The Hill_ XIV.--Nature hath fram'd strange fellows in her time.--_Shakespeare_ XV.--Come what come may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day.--_Shakespeare_ XVI.--A new way to pay old debts. XVII.--The actors are at hand.--_Shakespeare_ XVIII.--Twinkle, twinkle little star.--_Nursery Rhymes_ XIX.--Experience is a great teacher--the events of life its chapters.--_Sainte Beuve_ XX.--I am not an imposter that proclaim myself against the level of my aim.--_Shakespeare_ XXI.--I'll view the town, peruse the traders, gaze upon the buildings.--_Shakespeare_ XXII.--Is this world and all the life upon it a farce or vaudeville.--_Geo. Elliott_ XXIII.--All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players.--_Shakespeare_ XXIV.--There's nothing to be got nowadays, unless thou can'st fish for it.--_Shakespeare_ XXV.--Joy danced with Mirth, a gay fantastic crowd.--_Collins_ XXVI.--Say not "Good Night," but in some brighter clime bid me "Good Morning."--_Barbauld_ _A Pirate of Parts_ CHAPTER I "Is all our company here?" --MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. Yes, he was a strolling player pure and simple. He was an actor by profession, and jack of all trades through necessity. He could play any part from _Macbeth_ to the hind leg of an elephant, equally well or bad, as the case might be. What he did not know about a theatre was not worth knowing; what he could not do about a playhouse was not worth doing--provided you took his word for it. From this it might be inferred he was a useful man, but he was not. He had a queer way of doing things he ought not to do, and of leaving undone things he should have done. Good nature, however, was his chief quality. He bubbled over with it. Under the most trying circumstances he never lost his temper. He laughed his way through life, apparently without care. Yet he was a man of family, and those who were dependent upon him were not neglected, for his little ones were uppermost in his heart. Acting was his legitimate calling, but he would attempt anything to turn an honest penny. In turn he had been sa
PREV.   NEXT  
|<   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   11   12   13   14   15   16   17   18   19   20   21   22   23   24   25   26  
27   28   29   30   31   32   33   34   35   36   37   38   39   40   41   42   43   44   45   46   47   48   49   50   51   >>   >|  



Top keywords:
Shakespeare
 

things

 

equally

 
elephant
 

MIDSUMMER

 
strolling
 

company

 

Pirate

 

Barbauld

 

CHAPTER


player

 
Macbeth
 

necessity

 

trades

 

simple

 

profession

 

inferred

 

dependent

 

neglected

 
family

laughed

 

temper

 
apparently
 

uppermost

 

honest

 

attempt

 

Acting

 
legitimate
 

calling

 
Morning

leaving

 

playhouse

 

knowing

 

provided

 
undone
 

circumstances

 

bubbled

 
quality
 

nature

 

theatre


actors

 
roughest
 

Twinkle

 

twinkle

 

events

 

chapters

 

Sainte

 

teacher

 

Nursery

 

Rhymes