The Daughters of Thespis, Or A Peep Behind the CurtainJackson & Company, 1841 - 206 Seiten |
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... readers may be gratified by A PEEP BEHIND THE CURTAIN ! The curtain rises slowly to the accustomed ring of the prompter's bell , which tells the musician that his first task is over . The leader resigns his bow , and makes his bow in ...
... readers may be gratified by A PEEP BEHIND THE CURTAIN ! The curtain rises slowly to the accustomed ring of the prompter's bell , which tells the musician that his first task is over . The leader resigns his bow , and makes his bow in ...
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... readers in the mysteries of the Green - room , we shall now proceed , ad libitum , to detail the numerous anecdotes and adventures connected with its visitors , professionally and otherwise . Guided by truth , we will endeavour to point ...
... readers in the mysteries of the Green - room , we shall now proceed , ad libitum , to detail the numerous anecdotes and adventures connected with its visitors , professionally and otherwise . Guided by truth , we will endeavour to point ...
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... readers will allow we have no ladies on the stage , in the first place , who come under the coarse denomination of the starched Puritan ; and although the late Mrs. Humphries has been seen swimming in the sea off Brighton , we can take ...
... readers will allow we have no ladies on the stage , in the first place , who come under the coarse denomination of the starched Puritan ; and although the late Mrs. Humphries has been seen swimming in the sea off Brighton , we can take ...
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... reader by following the northern peregrinations of this singular pair through all their united wanderings and speculations . We hear , however , that great success , although in a divided consideration , attended their adventures ; and ...
... reader by following the northern peregrinations of this singular pair through all their united wanderings and speculations . We hear , however , that great success , although in a divided consideration , attended their adventures ; and ...
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... readers would naturally inquire why this unfeminine duty had not devolved upon her husband , and , in a legal point of view , the most proper representa- tive of the party aggrieved . We answer , this might have arisen from a ...
... readers would naturally inquire why this unfeminine duty had not devolved upon her husband , and , in a legal point of view , the most proper representa- tive of the party aggrieved . We answer , this might have arisen from a ...
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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