"Their Majesties' Servants.": Annals of the English Stage, from Betterton to Edmund Kean. Actors-Authors--Audiences, Volume 2 |
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... less fair than she . When Madame Violante first saw Mary and Margaret Woffington , she little dreamed that the latter would be the darling of London society , and the former the bride of a son of one of the proudest of English earls ...
... less fair than she . When Madame Violante first saw Mary and Margaret Woffington , she little dreamed that the latter would be the darling of London society , and the former the bride of a son of one of the proudest of English earls ...
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... less than marvellous . In the " Careless Husband " he produced a piece at which the most fastidious ladies of those times might sit , and listen to , unmasked . I say " listen , " for the comedy is a merely conversational piece ...
... less than marvellous . In the " Careless Husband " he produced a piece at which the most fastidious ladies of those times might sit , and listen to , unmasked . I say " listen , " for the comedy is a merely conversational piece ...
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... less willing to be accounted the author of the tragedy than of the opera , the writer of which , he says , with some humor : " I knew to be an honest , good - natured man , and who , when he had descended to write more like one in the ...
... less willing to be accounted the author of the tragedy than of the opera , the writer of which , he says , with some humor : " I knew to be an honest , good - natured man , and who , when he had descended to write more like one in the ...
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... less for the satire of the " Craftsman , " who ordered the players to go into mourning for the defunct manager ; the actresses to wear black capuchins , and the men of the company " dirty shirts ! " CHAPTER III . ENGLAND AND IRELAND ...
... less for the satire of the " Craftsman , " who ordered the players to go into mourning for the defunct manager ; the actresses to wear black capuchins , and the men of the company " dirty shirts ! " CHAPTER III . ENGLAND AND IRELAND ...
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... less bigoted benchers of Lincoln's Inn , feeling his way towards comedy illustrative of character , by farces descriptive of foibles , very humorously satirized the quidnunes who then abounded , in his " Upholsterer , or What Next ...
... less bigoted benchers of Lincoln's Inn , feeling his way towards comedy illustrative of character , by farces descriptive of foibles , very humorously satirized the quidnunes who then abounded , in his " Upholsterer , or What Next ...
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Page 15 - Resolved, &c., nemine contradicente, that in all aids given to the king by the Commons the rate or tax ought not to be altered by the Lords.
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Page 20 - I had rather not suppress, viz. that it was the best first play that any author in his memory had produced ; and that for a young fellow to show himself such an actor and such a writer in one day, was something extraordinary.
Page 80 - ... after long and eager expectation, I first beheld little Garrick, then young and light and alive in every muscle and in every feature, come bounding on the stage, and pointing at the wittol Altamont and heavypaced Horatio — heavens, what a transition! — it seemed as if a whole century had been swept over in the transition of a single scene...
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Page 251 - All Mrs. Siddons did, good sense or good instruction might give. I dare to say, that were I one-and-twenty, I should have thought her marvellous ; but alas ! I remember Mrs. Porter and the Dumesnil — and remember every accent of the former in the very same part.
Page 326 - ... possess it, and in it he had an empire. The young prince you have given him, by his blooming virtues, early declares the mighty stock he came from; and as you have taken all the pious care of a dear mother and a prudent guardian to give him a noble and generous education; may it succeed according to his merits and your wishes: may he grow up to be a bulwark to his illustrious father, and a patron to his...