 | Samuel Pepys - 1828 - 486 páginas
...playhouse, and saw " Hamlet," which we have not seen this year before, or more ; and mightily pleased with it, but above all with Betterton, the best part, I believe, that ever man acted. September 1st. To the fair, and there saw several sights ; among others, the mare that tells money... | |
 | 1904 - 668 páginas
...remarks on it : — " Saw ' Hamlet, Prince of Denmark,' done with scenes very well, and mightily pleased with it, but above all with Betterton, the best part, I believe, that ever man acted." Of ' Romeo and Juliet ' he says : — "Saw ' Romeo and Juliet ' but it is a play of itself the worst... | |
 | 1873 - 740 páginas
...ordinary plays." To do Samuel justice, he was "mightily pleased" with "Hamlet" (August 31, 16G8) ; "but, above all, with Betterton, the best part, I believe, that ever man acted." Frank. It is pleasant to part with our friendly Diarist on good terms. How persistently, by the way,... | |
 | 1873 - 808 páginas
...above ordinary plays.' To do Samuel justice, ho was ' mightily pleased' with Hamlet (August 31, 1668); 'but, above all, with Betterton, the best part, I believe, that ever man acted.' Fran!;. It is pleasant to part with ottr friendly Diarist on good terms. How persistently, by the way,... | |
 | 1873 - 822 páginas
...above ordinary plays.' To do Samuel justice, he was 'mightily pleased' with Hamlet (August 31, 1668); 'but, above all, with Betterton, the best part, I believe, that ever man acted.' Fran?,-. It is pleasant to part with our friendly Diarist on good terms. How persistently, by the way,... | |
 | Alfred Henry Paget - 1875 - 56 páginas
...imagination." Seven years later, after seeing the same play, he writes that he was " mightily pleased with it, but, above all, with Betterton, the best part, I believe, that ever man acted." Steele saw him buried in Westminster Cloisters, and, with a full heart, writes of his excellencies,... | |
 | Evan Thomas Davies - 1876 - 232 páginas
...playhouse, and saw 'Hamlet,' which we have not seen this year before, or more ; and mightily pleased with it, but above all with Betterton, the best part, I believe, that ever man acted." December 2ist. " Thence to the Duke's playhouse, and saw ' Macbeth." " 1668-9. February 6. " To the... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1877 - 514 páginas
...playhouse, and saw " Hamlet," which we have not seen this year before, or more ; and mightily pleased with it ; but, above all, with Betterton, the best part, I believe, 1 In Fleet Street. that ever man acted. Thence to the Fayre, and saw " Polichinelle," and so home.... | |
 | Charles Wilkins - 1885 - 786 páginas
...of York's Play-house, and saw Bamlef which we have not seen this year before, and mightily pleased with it, but above all with Betterton, the best part I believe that ever man acted. While speaking of Shakspeare it is interesting to note the number of Elizabethan plays that were put... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1890 - 620 páginas
...which latter occasion he says that he had not seen it "this year before, or more; and mightily pleased with it, but above all with Betterton, the best part, I believe, that ever man acted" (vol. vp 347). So long as Betterton lived no one seems to have cared to dispute his supremacy in this... | |
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Treasury chamber, where did a little business, and thence to the Duke of York's playhouse, and there met my wife and Deb. and Mary Mercer and Batelier, where also W. Hewer was, and saw " Hamlet, " which we have not seen this year before, or more; and... 
