The summer passed, Rich opened the Lincoln's Inn Fields playhouseand sent for Lavinia.
He was Master of a Company of his own, for whom he Built the Fortune Playhouse from the Ground, a large, round Brick Building.
But into the older man's mind crept the impression that they were merely passing, in going from crowded theatre to open garden and street, from one playhouse to another.
It screened and shut off the actualities and perpetuities of life as completely as the drop and wings of a playhouse might.
The agitation against the playhouse was still proceeding when Smith resigned his chair in 1764, but shortly afterwards, finding itself without any legal support, it gradually died away.
Highwaymen and housebreakers seldom frequent the playhouse or mingle in any elegant diversion; nor is it possible for anyone to imagine that he may rob as safely because he sees Macheath reprieved upon the stage.
It is acted at the playhouse in Lincoln's Inn Fields with such success that the playhouse has been crowded every night.
The Introduction, indeed, was not shown to the Lord Chamberlain, which, as I had not then settled, was never transcribed in the playhouse copy.
He had managed the comedy (which our poor friend gave to the playhouse a week before his death) to the utmost advantage for his relations; and proposes to do the same with some Fables he left unfinished.
Much of the description in his plays casts a vivid light upon this wild life of the playhouse and tavern which he, with other young poets of the extraordinary decade terminating the sixteenth century must have lived.
Anyhow, the possibility of this derivation is absolutely excluded by the fact that the spot on which the second London playhousewas built, for some unknown reason, bore the name of "Curtayne Close.
Was acted at the theatre in Shoreditch and at the playhouse at Newington Butts; 6.
If The Curtain was preserved as long as that, its life was longer than that of any other playhouse of the Shakespearean period.
It has been briefly mentioned above that not long after the establishment of The Theatre--at the latest in the following year--this playhouse gained a companion in The Curtain, which thus became the second of its kind in London.
So the playhouse was simply named after the spot on which it was built.
Nicholas Ling, obtained by some means a playhouse copy of the tragedy, not a copy in the state in which it left the hands of the author, but representing in the main the genuine words of Shakespeare.
I promised my sable cohort such a spread in the playhouse as it and they had never beheld.
I minded the deprivation less after I converted the playhouse into a family chapel, and held services there on stay-at-home Sundays.
Nay, I protest if you do not take my title I shall go to the playhouse and damn the play," said Reynolds.
If I know anything of him, sir," said Steevens, "the playhouse is just the place which he would most persistently avoid.
I think that the best course we can adopt is for some of us to go to the playhouse without delay.
But I beg of you to hasten to the playhouse and carry me the news of the play--don't fear to tell me the worst; I have been in the world of letters for nearly twenty years; I am not easily dismayed.
This conclusion to which Goldsmith had come was confirmed by the fact that no persons of any distinction who had been present at the Pantheon or the playhouse had shown that they were acquainted with him--no one person save only Mary Horneck.
DEAR SIR--You will recollect that, about twenty years ago, there was a great sound throughout all the West that a playhouse in Glasgow had been converted into a tabernacle of religion.
While thus she suffers the desertion Of a maist rational diversion,' he commenced to erect, in 1736, a playhouse in Carrubber's Close.
The theatre which in 1746 was erected in Playhouse Close in the Canongate, though only by a quibbling evasion of the statute, so Draconic were its provisions, was largely due to his energy and exertions.
The playhouse was a wider sphere for their exertions, and it opened an arduous competition for the purveyors of these incessant novelties.
Playhouse Yard covers the site of the first theatre set up in the Blackfriars neighbourhood.
The Taylor mentioned as sitting on one side of Mrs. Mapp in the playhouse was a notable character.
The eminent lady went to the playhouse in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields to see the Husband's Relief acted.
They have, indeed, built one place of worship, but a playhouse nearly four times as large.
I to the new playhouseand saw part of the "Traitor," a very good Tragedy; Mr. Moon did act the Traitor very well.
She spoke not another word until the playhouse servants had relighted the chandeliers, and Dr.
I must not forget the visit I made to Drury Lane Playhouse with my Lords Carlisle and Grantham and Comyn.
Twas then the best in the New World, the censor having pronounced it far above any provincial playhouse he had seen abroad.
The dramatist is subdued to what he works in; and he can accomplish only that which is possible in the particular playhouse for which his pieces were destined.
And she declared that she liked the puppet playhouse in her own home, because it was a domestic and fireside pleasure, which could be enjoyed without the exertion imposed by a visit to a real theater.
The wooden head of Mr. Punch is unchanging, no doubt; but those who gaze entranced upon his marvelous doings never miss the play of feature which they would expect if they were part of the audience in a playhouse for grown-ups.
Perhaps I ought to explain, furthermore, that these excursions into the purlieus of the playhouse began long, long ago.
It was the only toy Anne Nelson had ever possessed, and it had seemed more her own because she had kept it in the little playhouse under the pines.
I think I will not leave Martha at the playhouse after this," said Anne thoughtfully; "something might happen to her.
April brought warm, sunny days, and Anne no longer wore the knit hood and mittens, and had once more set her playhouseunder the pine trees in order, and now Amanda with her doll often came to play with her.
She has her playhouse under the trees, and amuses herself without making trouble.
Mrs. Merrill, as she came close enough to see the playhouse the children had made.
