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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Page 51
... never go to market again , if I don't think we are all a parcel of calves , or else we shou'd petition the minister to knock down all forestalling before we are all cut up and laid out as dead as mutton . " Neddy Lather'em , the barber ...
... never go to market again , if I don't think we are all a parcel of calves , or else we shou'd petition the minister to knock down all forestalling before we are all cut up and laid out as dead as mutton . " Neddy Lather'em , the barber ...
Page 142
... never had any weighty reason yet for thinking otherwise . Now , sir , as we say , please to “ leave your d - nable faces , and begin . " Fust . My d - nable faces ! Dag . Come " We'll to't like French falconers . " Fust . ( Reading ...
... never had any weighty reason yet for thinking otherwise . Now , sir , as we say , please to “ leave your d - nable faces , and begin . " Fust . My d - nable faces ! Dag . Come " We'll to't like French falconers . " Fust . ( Reading ...
Page 161
... never seen Garrick , has never seen a drama performed . It is easy to disfigure a face ; this may be conceived ; but Garrick neither grimaces nor overcharges his parts ; all the changes which affect his features , arise from his ...
... never seen Garrick , has never seen a drama performed . It is easy to disfigure a face ; this may be conceived ; but Garrick neither grimaces nor overcharges his parts ; all the changes which affect his features , arise from his ...
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A ComicSatiric Address in the Character | 1 |
The Devil | 8 |
Address on Closing a Theatre | 14 |
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