"Their Majesties' Servants": Annals of the English Stage, from Thomas Betterton to Edmund Kean, Volume 2 |
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... latter would be the darling of London society , and the former the bride of a son of one of the proudest of English carls . Margaret Woffington , born in 1720 , was very young when Madame Violante induced ber mother to let her have the ...
... latter would be the darling of London society , and the former the bride of a son of one of the proudest of English carls . Margaret Woffington , born in 1720 , was very young when Madame Violante induced ber mother to let her have the ...
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... latter during a month . In Garrick's term the table is said to have been but moderately furnished ; whereas during the beautiful Margaret's month , there was a banquet and brilliant company daily ; all the fashionable men about town ...
... latter during a month . In Garrick's term the table is said to have been but moderately furnished ; whereas during the beautiful Margaret's month , there was a banquet and brilliant company daily ; all the fashionable men about town ...
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... the alleged fact that the latter never talked but of satins and silks . She herself was endowed with a good understanding , which was much improved by contact with intellectual society , and by MARGARET WOFFINGTON . 7 -Colley Cibber.
... the alleged fact that the latter never talked but of satins and silks . She herself was endowed with a good understanding , which was much improved by contact with intellectual society , and by MARGARET WOFFINGTON . 7 -Colley Cibber.
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... latter is inherited , while the former is owing to his surprising mien and unexampled gallantry . He does not make love to a lady ; his court is paid by indicating to her why she should love him . He judges of a man of sense by the ...
... latter is inherited , while the former is owing to his surprising mien and unexampled gallantry . He does not make love to a lady ; his court is paid by indicating to her why she should love him . He judges of a man of sense by the ...
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... latter were Chesterfield or Devonshire , Cholmondeley or Rockingham , Sir John Cope , Mrs. Oldfield's General Churchill , or , the last man likely to be so audacious - Bubb Doddington himself . Among them all , Colley kept his own to ...
... latter were Chesterfield or Devonshire , Cholmondeley or Rockingham , Sir John Cope , Mrs. Oldfield's General Churchill , or , the last man likely to be so audacious - Bubb Doddington himself . Among them all , Colley kept his own to ...
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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.
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Page 357 - Wide o'er this breathing world, a Garrick came. Though sunk in death the forms the Poet drew, The Actor's genius bade them breathe anew ; Though, like the bard himself, in night they lay, Immortal Garrick call'd them back to day : And till Eternity with power sublime Shall mark the mortal hour of hoary Time, Shakspeare and Garrick like twin stars shall shine, And earth irradiate with a beam divine." It would be an insult to my readers' understandings to attempt any thing like a criticism on this...
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