The Daughters of Thespis, Or A Peep Behind the CurtainJackson & Company, 1841 - 206 Seiten |
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... hand , seizes the child , which she covers with kisses . 66 Oh , you blessed chick ! how she does grow ; my dear Mrs. D. , how lovely you look to - night : what a duck of a cloak ! " Here the parties retire together , Mrs. H. having ...
... hand , seizes the child , which she covers with kisses . 66 Oh , you blessed chick ! how she does grow ; my dear Mrs. D. , how lovely you look to - night : what a duck of a cloak ! " Here the parties retire together , Mrs. H. having ...
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... hand , though not the heart , of Laura upon the Petrarch Honey , a dapper lawyer's clerk , and who , for a long time , " Had look'd and sigh'd his soul out at her feet . " Soon after this eventful epoch , about the period of her ...
... hand , though not the heart , of Laura upon the Petrarch Honey , a dapper lawyer's clerk , and who , for a long time , " Had look'd and sigh'd his soul out at her feet . " Soon after this eventful epoch , about the period of her ...
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... hands are at work to prevent the house being set on fire . The witch , however , is at last discovered by the Priest ... hand of one of his fellow bumpkins . His head is laid down for this purpose in Gammer Gurton's lap , when at the ...
... hands are at work to prevent the house being set on fire . The witch , however , is at last discovered by the Priest ... hand of one of his fellow bumpkins . His head is laid down for this purpose in Gammer Gurton's lap , when at the ...
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... hand , the lady , although assiduously engaged in the earnest pursuit of her own , it would seem could find leisure to attend at one of the offices of police , and prefer a complaint against sundry instances of coarse gallantry on the ...
... hand , the lady , although assiduously engaged in the earnest pursuit of her own , it would seem could find leisure to attend at one of the offices of police , and prefer a complaint against sundry instances of coarse gallantry on the ...
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... hand ; indeed , up to the present moment these ladies have constantly proved themselves the sincere friends and patronesses of the widow and children of their brother . Towards the end of the French war , Lieutenant Macnamara sold his ...
... hand ; indeed , up to the present moment these ladies have constantly proved themselves the sincere friends and patronesses of the widow and children of their brother . Towards the end of the French war , Lieutenant Macnamara sold his ...
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actor actress afterwards amongst amusement appearance applause Armand Vestris arrived audience Bartolozzi beauty Beggar's Opera called Captain celebrated character Chatterley Christmas cigar circumstances comedy commenced Countess of Harrington Covent-Garden daughter dear delight drama dress Drury Drury-Lane Duke Elliston engagement excellent eyes fair father favourite Feargus O'Connor feelings fire gentleman Green-room habit handsome Haymarket heard heart heroine histrionic honour horse Humby husband Janson Kean Kemble lady late London look Lord Louisa lover Madame Vestris manager marriage ment metropolis Miss Chester Miss Mordaunt Miss Stephens never night Nisbett occasion Opera Orger Othello party performance person play pleasure Portsmouth possession pounds present profession Queen's Theatre readers remember replied scene season seat Shakspere sighed singing singular smiles song stage talent theatre Theatre Royal theatrical Thespis Thomas Welsh Thornton tion town whilst wife woman young
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Seite 204 - Affecting to seem unaffected. With skill her eyes dart every glance, Yet change so soon you'd ne'er suspect them ; For she'd persuade they wound by chance, Though certain aim and art direct them. She likes herself, yet others hates For that which in herself she prizes; And while she laughs at them, forgets She is the
Seite 12 - once a pliant hour, and found good means To draw from her a pray'r of earnest heart That he would all his pilgrimage dilate, Whereof by parcels she had something heard
Seite 168 - it argues an act, and an act has three branches; it is to act, to do, and to perform ; argal, she drowned herself wittingly.'' Second Clown.—" Nay, but hear you, good man deliver.
Seite 168 - to him and drown him, he drowns not himself; argal, he that is not guilty of his own death, shortens not his own life.
Seite 21 - AT CRAWLEY'S BOOTH, Over against the CROWN TAVERN, in Smithfield, During the time of Bartholomew Fair, Will be presented a little Opera, called— The Old Creation of the World, Yet newly revived, with the addition of
Seite 152 - actor demand a combination not easily to be found, is an erroneous assumption, ascribable, perhaps, to the following causes. The market for this kind of talent must always be understocked, because very few of those who are really qualified to gain theatrical fame will condescend to start for it. To succeed, the candidate must
Seite 168 - First Clown.—" It must be se offendendo, it cannot be else, for here lies the point. If I drown myself
Seite 197 - The man who lays his hand upon a woman, save in the way of kindness, is a wretch whom 'twere gross