"Prompter" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... we may thrill, Or in a pantomimic role be still. We may find fame in field, or grace a court, Whate'er the play, forthwith its lines will start, And every soul, in cloister or in mart, Must act, and do his best from day to day— So says the prompter to the human heart. "The play's the thing," might Shakespear's Hamlet say. "The thing," to us, is playing well ...
— A Backward Glance at Eighty • Charles A. Murdock
... hands Both you of my inclining, and the rest. Were it my Cue to fight, I should haue knowne it Without a Prompter. Whether will you that I goe To answere this your charge? Bra. To Prison, till fit time Of Law, and course of direct Session Call thee ...
— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare
... came around and asked me to go underneath the stage, as they were putting on a ballet of 300 girls, the finest ballet in Europe. It seems there is a little hole on the stage with a hood over it, in which the prompter sits when opera is given. In this instance it was not occupied, and I was given the position in the prompter's seat, and saw the whole ...
— Edison, His Life and Inventions • Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
... journies, or into our walks, or into our chambers, for he can make all the things we see subservient to our moral instruction, and his own glory. But I should be sorry to have him considered as a clock, that is to inform us about the times of our ordinary movements, or to make him a prompter in all our worldly concerns, or to oblige him to take his seat in animal magnetism, or to reside in the midst marvellous delusions. Why should we expect a revelation in the most trivial concerns of our lives, where our reason will ...
— A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume III (of 3) • Thomas Clarkson
... substituted, called El lindo Diego, the part of which we saw was well performed. A disagreeable feature, however, was in the position of the prompter, who was placed in the centre of the footlights, and kept up a continuous recitation of the play in a monotonous tone, which greatly marred ...
— Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas • W. Hastings Macaulay
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