To do this successfully required great skill and a special talent for both solemn and ribald raillery, a talent not bestowed on many persons, but one with which Milton was marked as being endowed and in which, at least in this performance, he obviously reveled.

but even in that famous passage, Milton was aiming not at the theatricals as such but at their performance by ' persons either enter'd, or presently to enter into the ministry.

Robby's performance last year was tremendous.

In Boston, Edwin Booth was winding up a performance of A New Way To Pay Old Debts.

The play for Saturday night was to be a benefit performance of The Octoroon.

But then, after the little operetta had been given its feeble amateur rendering, everyone insisted that it was too good to be lost forever, and that the Royal Academy of Music must now have the manuscript in order to give it the really first-rate performance it merited.

Rousseau was aware that he must seem like a hypocrite, standing there and arguing that he could not possibly permit a public performance.

And that was why, on the day of the performance, when a carriage from the royal stables called to take him to the palace, he did not bother to shave.

The hen appeared to have no doubts as to her duties and was quick to settle down to the performance of them.

One part of her audience was totally engaged, the connoisseur witnessing a peculiarly fine performance of some ancient classic, the other part, the guest of the connoisseur, attentive as one who must take an intelligent interest in that which he does not fully understand.

This project was started at a time when there was a critical need for a high-energy fuel to provide an extra margin of range for high performance aircraft, particularly our heavy bombers.

Chicago was also a welcome host: there, in 1921, Prokofieff conducted the world premiere of the Love For Three Oranges, and played the first performance of his Third Piano Concerto.

As he leads the Neurenschatz Skolkau Orchestra, Schlek gives a tremendously inspired performance of both the Baslot and Rattzhenfuut concertos, including the controversial Tschilwyk cadenza, which was included at the conductor's insistence.

Leaving the theatre after the performance, I had a flash of intuition that life, after all ( as Rilke said ), is just a search for the nonexistent cup of hot coffee, and that this unpretentious, moving, clever, bitter slice of life was the greatest thing to happen to the American theatre since Brooks Atkinson retired.

Interviewing, checking references, training the salesmen, having them go with more experienced salesmen was expensive -- and the rate of attrition due to resignations or unsatisfactory performance was too high.

Andy's performance was scheduled for eleven o'clock.

It was what they said before every performance but tonight it sounded different, as if he really needed it.

The announcement that the city would sue for recovery on the performance bond was made by City Solicitor David Berger at a press conference following a meeting in the morning with Wagner and other officials of the city and the PTC as well as representatives of an engineering firm that was pulled off the El project before its completion in 1959.

Berger's decision to sue for the full amount of the performance bond was questioned by Wagner in the morning press conference.

Mankowski, the ball-hawking defensive expert, was cited for his performance against Bradley in St. Louis U.'s nationally televised victory.

The board's last money raising event was a performance by Harry Belafonte -- `` quite off-beat for this group '', decided some of the members.

Each high note had the crowd in ecstasy so that it stopped the show midway in the `` Mad Scene '', but the real reason was a realization of the extraordinary performance unfolding at the moment.

On 18 November 2008 the band released The BBC Sessions, which features songs from the period of 1996 – 2001 ( including the last recordings featuring Isobel Campbell before she left the band ), along with a second disc featuring a recording of a live performance in Belfast from Christmas 2001.

Although that performance was canceled due to rioting, a live recording of the group ( After the Riot at Newport ) was released.

" Pull My Strings " was never recorded for a studio release, though the performance at the Bay Area Music Awards, which was the first and only time the song was ever performed, was released on the band's compilation album Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death.

The band has released two live albums of archival performances on Manifesto Records: Mutiny on the Bay, compiled from various live shows including a recording from their last show with Biafra in 1986, and Live at the Deaf Club, a recording of a 1979 performance at the Deaf Club in San Francisco which was greeted with more enthusiasm.

In 2000 Warner Music released Enya: The Video Collection on DVD in Europe, South Africa and Asia, collecting all her videos from " Orinoco Flow " up to and including " Wild Child ", except for the video from " Book of Days ", which was replaced by a live TV performance due to licensing complications relating to the video's use of footage from the film Far and Away.

When first released in 2001, Itanium's performance, compared to better-established RISC and CISC processors, was disappointing.

By the time Itanium was released in June 2001, its performance was not superior to competing RISC and CISC processors.

The finished film, released in 1962, was a huge success and was nominated for four Oscars, including one for Lancaster's performance.

In 1972, the performance was released as a companion disc to Lennon's and Ono's Some Time In New York City LP.

In 2006, U. S. National Academy of Sciences released the report of a study of molecular manufacturing as part of a longer report, A Matter of Size: Triennial Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative The study committee reviewed the technical content of Nanosystems, and in its conclusion states that no current theoretical analysis can be considered definitive regarding several questions of potential system performance, and that optimal paths for implementing high-performance systems cannot be predicted with confidence.

The film released in November 2007 and, despite the critics panning it, Dixit's performance was highly appreciated, with the New York Times commenting about her that " she's still got it ".

The movie, which became the most commercially successful film of all time when it was released — along with his Oscar-nominated performance as Paul in Last Tango in Paris ( 1972 ), another smash hit — revitalized Brando's career and reestablished him in the ranks of top box office stars, placing him at number 6 and number 10 in Top 10 Money Making Stars poll in 1972 and 1973, respectively.

In December 2011, New Order released Live at the London Troxy, a live album from their 10 December 2011 performance at The Troxy in London.

OS / 2 version 3. 0, released in 1994, was labelled as OS / 2 Warp to highlight the new performance benefits, and generally to freshen the product image.

A triple CD live album and dual DVD, Rush in Rio, was released in late October 2003 featuring an entire concert performance recorded on the last night of their Vapor Trails Tour, November 23, 2002, at Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

With America involved in the Gulf War, the positive response to the rousing performance was overwhelming, and it was released as a single and a video.

The concert was telecast on the PBS " Great Performances " show during November 2010, and the DVD of the performance was released on November 16, 2010.

This live performance was later released as an album Live and is also available on video.

After leaving Asylum, the label released the first Tom Waits " Best of " album in 1981, a collection called Bounced Checks, notable for including an alternate, stripped down version of " Jersey Girl " and the otherwise unreleased " Mr. Henry ", as well as an alternate master of " Whistlin ' Past the Graveyard " and a live performance of " The Piano Has Been Drinking ".

In 1994 James Sedares conducted a re-recording of the score performed by The Phoenix Symphony Orchestra ( which also included a suite from Bernstein's score for The Hallelujah Trail, issued by Koch Records ; Bernstein himself conducted the Royal Scottish National Orchestra for a performance released by RCA in 1997, but the original film soundtrack was not released until the following year by Rykodisc ( Varèse Sarabande reissued this album in 2004 ).

A disagreement led to Vangelis withholding permission for his performance of the music from Blade Runner to be released, and the studio instead hired a group of musicians dubbed " The New American Orchestra " to record the official LP released at the time.

On 10 January 2011 the band released their twelfth studio album, Red Barked Tree, which ( according to press release and BBC ) "... rekindles a lyricism sometimes absent from Wire's previous work and reconnects with the live energy of performance, harnessed and channelled from extensive touring over the past few years ".

A DVD and CD of the Roundhouse performance was released in November 2009 on the Year Zero Label by Future Noise Music.