The Daughters of Thespis, Or A Peep Behind the CurtainJackson & Company, 1841 - 206 Seiten |
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... Look at that bustling , pursy old dame , who follows her with a bouquet and a white pocket - handkerchief - ' tis her mamma , and woe betide her charge if she finds her flirting with any of the male performers , unless he comes under ...
... Look at that bustling , pursy old dame , who follows her with a bouquet and a white pocket - handkerchief - ' tis her mamma , and woe betide her charge if she finds her flirting with any of the male performers , unless he comes under ...
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... time on the morrow . " Oh , let me look at yours ! " says Miss B. to her fair neighbour , " is it long ? " 66 " Nothing ; like every thing they give me A 5 THE DAUGHTERS OF THESPIS . with a bespeak from a lady of considerable fashion in ...
... time on the morrow . " Oh , let me look at yours ! " says Miss B. to her fair neighbour , " is it long ? " 66 " Nothing ; like every thing they give me A 5 THE DAUGHTERS OF THESPIS . with a bespeak from a lady of considerable fashion in ...
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... look to - night : what a duck of a cloak ! " Here the parties retire together , Mrs. H. having , in a prolonged whisper , during which her glance had been more than once directed to her sweet friend , Miss B. , inti- mated that she had ...
... look to - night : what a duck of a cloak ! " Here the parties retire together , Mrs. H. having , in a prolonged whisper , during which her glance had been more than once directed to her sweet friend , Miss B. , inti- mated that she had ...
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... look and voice so common to the drivers of the busses , were irresistible to the sensibility of one predestined by her planet to revel amid the flowers of uncontrolled amativeness , and to rejoice in the sweetest name in the world . The ...
... look and voice so common to the drivers of the busses , were irresistible to the sensibility of one predestined by her planet to revel amid the flowers of uncontrolled amativeness , and to rejoice in the sweetest name in the world . The ...
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... look'd and sigh'd his soul out at her feet . " Soon after this eventful epoch , about the period of her arriving at eighteen , Mrs. Waylett , the proprietor of the New Strand , made overtures to the lady for her ser- vices in the light ...
... look'd and sigh'd his soul out at her feet . " Soon after this eventful epoch , about the period of her arriving at eighteen , Mrs. Waylett , the proprietor of the New Strand , made overtures to the lady for her ser- vices in the light ...
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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