"Their Majesties' Servants.": Annals of the English Stage, from Betterton to Edmund Kean. Actors-Authors--Audiences, Volume 2 |
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... married the mother when she was as hard - working a laundress . There is another child in this poor household , a sister of the water - bearer , fair , but less fair than she . When Madame Violante first saw Mary and Margaret Woffington ...
... married the mother when she was as hard - working a laundress . There is another child in this poor household , a sister of the water - bearer , fair , but less fair than she . When Madame Violante first saw Mary and Margaret Woffington ...
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... marriage . Walpole was among the last to be pleased . " There is much in vogue , a Mrs. Woffington , " he writes , in 1741 ; " a bad actress , but she has life . " Walpole's friend , Conway , confesses that " all the town was in love ...
... marriage . Walpole was among the last to be pleased . " There is much in vogue , a Mrs. Woffington , " he writes , in 1741 ; " a bad actress , but she has life . " Walpole's friend , Conway , confesses that " all the town was in love ...
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... marriage with Eva Maria Violetta , he lived in such affectionate intimacy with the charming Irish actress , as to address to her the song beginning with " Once more I'll tune the vocal shell , To hills and dales my passion tell , A ...
... marriage with Eva Maria Violetta , he lived in such affectionate intimacy with the charming Irish actress , as to address to her the song beginning with " Once more I'll tune the vocal shell , To hills and dales my passion tell , A ...
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... marriage she connected herself with Walpole's family , and Walpole , whose mother was the daughter of a timber - dealer ... married a player's sister . " This last was Mrs. Woffington's sister , Mary . Captain , subsequently the Reverend ...
... marriage she connected herself with Walpole's family , and Walpole , whose mother was the daughter of a timber - dealer ... married a player's sister . " This last was Mrs. Woffington's sister , Mary . Captain , subsequently the Reverend ...
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... marriage , Mrs. Woffington lived to see five of the nine children born . One of these , married to Sir William Bellingham , Bart . , carried the Woffington blood back to one of the oldest families in Ireland . Another of Margaret ...
... marriage , Mrs. Woffington lived to see five of the nine children born . One of these , married to Sir William Bellingham , Bart . , carried the Woffington blood back to one of the oldest families in Ireland . Another of Margaret ...
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Page 135 - Sincerity ! Thou first of virtues, let no mortal leave Thy onward path! although the earth should gape, And from the gulf of hell destruction cry To take dissimulation's winding way.
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Page 76 - Garrick reckoned a tolerable author, though he has proved how little sense is necessary to form a great actor! His Cymon, his prologues and epilogues, and forty such pieces of trash, are below mediocrity, and yet delight the mob in the boxes, as well as in the footman's gallery. I do not mention the things written in his praise, because he writes most of them himself.
Page 357 - your fame shall last during the empire of vice and misery, in the extension of which you have acted so great a part ! " We make no apology for our sentiments, unfashionable as they are. Feeling the importance of the condition of man as a moral agent, accountable not merely for the direct...