The Actor's Budget of Wit and Merriment: Consisting of Monologues, Prologues, Epilogues, Tales, Comic Songs, Rare and Genuine Theatrical Anecdotes and Jests |
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... called . The chairmen would seldom carry Handel from the Oratorios , on account of his unwieldy weight . Arne was as a feather , courted by the chairmen of Covent - garden district . One night , the great Handel , great in every sense ...
... called . The chairmen would seldom carry Handel from the Oratorios , on account of his unwieldy weight . Arne was as a feather , courted by the chairmen of Covent - garden district . One night , the great Handel , great in every sense ...
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... called his footman at three o'clock in the morning , and gave him some verses to carry immediately to the Sieur Paulin , who played the part of the tyrant in that play . The servant excusing himself , under a pretence that it was the ...
... called his footman at three o'clock in the morning , and gave him some verses to carry immediately to the Sieur Paulin , who played the part of the tyrant in that play . The servant excusing himself , under a pretence that it was the ...
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... called him Beetle Mossop , or Mossop the Beetle . But independent of the bull and the beetle , David , have you any other ob- jection ? -Now his deportment ! Deportment you know , Da- vid , is the true characteristic of a gentleman ...
... called him Beetle Mossop , or Mossop the Beetle . But independent of the bull and the beetle , David , have you any other ob- jection ? -Now his deportment ! Deportment you know , Da- vid , is the true characteristic of a gentleman ...
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A ComicSatiric Address in the Character | 1 |
The Devil | 8 |
Address on Closing a Theatre | 14 |
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