| Lionel Strachey - 1906 - 318 páginas
...have it. To the nursery where none of us ever were before; where the house is better and the music better than we looked for, and the acting not much...could be ; and I was not much mistaken, for it was so. Shaving UP betimes, and shaved myself after a week's growth: but, Lord ! how ugly I was yesterday,... | |
| JAMES S. OGILVY - 1910 - 550 páginas
...the founder of Dulwich College, made his wealth. Pepys visited it, of course, and " found the musique better than we looked for and the acting not much worse, because I expected as bad as could be." It must have been a new theatre then, as shortly after the ascension of Parliament, they passed an... | |
| Samuel Pepys - 1916 - 410 páginas
...1667-68. To the Nursery, where none of us ever were before ; where the house is better and the musique better than we looked for, and the acting not much...Their play was a bad one, called "Jeronimo is Mad Again,"1 a tragedy. Here was some good company by us, who did make mighty sport at the folly of their... | |
| Eola Willis - 1924 - 532 páginas
...another Chapter. As to the first season, Pepys exactly described it. "The house was better and the music better than we looked for, and the acting not much...could be, and I was not much mistaken, for it was so." PERFORMANCES AT HARMONY HAM.. Season of 1786 July 11 — Concert of Music Stevens's Lecture on Heads... | |
| Gamaliel Bradford - 1924 - 302 páginas
...prettily Pepys provides for this state of mind and discounts it : "the house is better and the musique better than we looked for, and the acting not much...be : and I was not much mistaken, for it was so." 61 But, with all the drawbacks, the delight remains. You laugh till your sides ache, laugh till you... | |
| Samuel Pepys - 1926 - 920 páginas
...them to the Nursery, where none ol us ever were before ; where the house is better and the musique better than we looked for, and the acting not much...well to see it once, it being worth a man's seeing to discovei the different ability and understanding of people, and the different growth of people's abilities... | |
| Samuel Pepys - 1926 - 652 páginas
...took them to the Nursery,4 where none of us ever were before where the house is better and the musique better than we looked for, and the acting not much...could be: and I was not much mistaken, for it was so. Their play was a bad one, called "Jeronimo is Mad Again," a tragedy. I was prettily served this day... | |
| Thomas Shadwell - 1927 - 600 páginas
...the Nursery, " where the house is better and the musique better than we looked for, and the afting not much worse, because I expected as bad as could be : and I was not much mistaken, for it was so." The next day he repaired again to the Nursery, " and there saw them aft a comedy, a paStorall, ' The... | |
| Samuel Pepys - 1928 - 914 páginas
...them to the Nursery, where none of us ever were before ; where the house is better and the musique better than we looked for, and the acting not much...Their play was a bad one, called " Jeronimo is Mad Again," 4 a tragedy. Here was some good company by us, who did make mighty sport at the folly of their... | |
| 1914 - 494 páginas
...alone, and after dinner I took them to the Nursery, where none of us ever were before and the musique better than we looked for, and the acting not much worse, because I expected äs bad äs could be: and I was not much mistaken, for it was so. However I was pleased well to see... | |
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