The Actor's Budget; Consisting of Monologues, Prologues, Epilogues, and Tales, Serious and Comic ...: Together with ... a Rare and Genuine Collection of Theatrical Anecdotes and Comic Songs ...Hildyard, 1811 - Theater |
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... heart should be . The stage may very well be call'd a school , Where wise men study how to play the fool . The grocer's clerk , with horror in his looks , [ books : Cries , " Racks and torments , " while he posts his The master starts ...
... heart should be . The stage may very well be call'd a school , Where wise men study how to play the fool . The grocer's clerk , with horror in his looks , [ books : Cries , " Racks and torments , " while he posts his The master starts ...
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... heart , You may thro ' it drive a dart , All to keep up the farcical scene O ! Beauty spurns - passion burns , Like a wizzard - cuts his gizzard . Hey down , ho down , & c . Then the Soldier , ripe for plunder , Breathing slaughter ...
... heart , You may thro ' it drive a dart , All to keep up the farcical scene O ! Beauty spurns - passion burns , Like a wizzard - cuts his gizzard . Hey down , ho down , & c . Then the Soldier , ripe for plunder , Breathing slaughter ...
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... heart of every hearer with awe and reverence ; can there be a greater burlesque upon religion , than to hear the clerk conclude each peti- tion , more with his nose than with his mouth , thus— " We beseech thee to hear us , good Lord ...
... heart of every hearer with awe and reverence ; can there be a greater burlesque upon religion , than to hear the clerk conclude each peti- tion , more with his nose than with his mouth , thus— " We beseech thee to hear us , good Lord ...
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... heart and say the same thing : for the service is not only disgraced by young raw recruits , who were sent to drill , but there are even veteran actors , who have beat the march through many a tough campaign , deserve to be brought to ...
... heart and say the same thing : for the service is not only disgraced by young raw recruits , who were sent to drill , but there are even veteran actors , who have beat the march through many a tough campaign , deserve to be brought to ...
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... heart ; at last warmed by the fire of the subject , broke out- " Why was I born with all my sex's softness ? " My gentle nature bears not the beating of a storm " So rude - Castalio - oh Castalio has undone me ! ❝ And my soft soul ...
... heart ; at last warmed by the fire of the subject , broke out- " Why was I born with all my sex's softness ? " My gentle nature bears not the beating of a storm " So rude - Castalio - oh Castalio has undone me ! ❝ And my soft soul ...
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