Memoirs of a Manager: Or, Life's Stage with New Scenery, Volume 1W. Bragg, 1830 |
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... delighted with Dryden , and most wonderfully pleased with Pope ; and so run on in a long line of alliteration till they sunk down at last , -an immeasurable dis- tance ! -to the poetasters and prolific scribblers of the present day ...
... delighted with Dryden , and most wonderfully pleased with Pope ; and so run on in a long line of alliteration till they sunk down at last , -an immeasurable dis- tance ! -to the poetasters and prolific scribblers of the present day ...
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... delighted me - I was lost in astonishment at the various divisions of boxes , pit and gallery ; - when the curtain rose , the scenery called forth an ex- clamation of surprise - the whole drama seemed to me a real spectacle -- I ...
... delighted me - I was lost in astonishment at the various divisions of boxes , pit and gallery ; - when the curtain rose , the scenery called forth an ex- clamation of surprise - the whole drama seemed to me a real spectacle -- I ...
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... music , dance , song , laugh , joy , folly and good humour , were all to be found in abundance ; and that nothing of a contrary aspect was ever known within the - precincts of so delightful a place . Alas ! 36 MEMOIRS OF.
... music , dance , song , laugh , joy , folly and good humour , were all to be found in abundance ; and that nothing of a contrary aspect was ever known within the - precincts of so delightful a place . Alas ! 36 MEMOIRS OF.
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Or, Life's Stage with New Scenery Henry Lee. - precincts of so delightful a place . Alas ! -the truth lies on the very contrary side of the question , and con- stant attention and hard labour are the sure and real concomitants of a play ...
Or, Life's Stage with New Scenery Henry Lee. - precincts of so delightful a place . Alas ! -the truth lies on the very contrary side of the question , and con- stant attention and hard labour are the sure and real concomitants of a play ...
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... delight , the unfrequented groves of green ash or elm , and here and there , cottages that early acquaintance had made palaces to him ; these he re- cognizes and joyously greets , even though time had flung his mantle over them and ...
... delight , the unfrequented groves of green ash or elm , and here and there , cottages that early acquaintance had made palaces to him ; these he re- cognizes and joyously greets , even though time had flung his mantle over them and ...
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acquainted actor afterwards alluded almanacks attention Barnstaple believe better Birmingham Bridport bull-baiting called Captain character Charles Charles Murray clever Commissaire course Covent Garden delight Devizes doctress door Dorchester eyes favorite feel frequently friends gallery give glass Guernsey hand happy heard honor hope horses Island JOHN DRYDEN joke kind knew known ladies laugh least London look Lymington manager matter mean mind never Newport Pagnel night Normanton Nottinghamshire observed old gentleman once opinion party performance perhaps person piece play pleasant present pretty Quarter Day Quotem racter rat-catching replied respect Royalty Theatre Salisbury scenes season seen Shatford shilling singing Sodbury song soon speak spirits spoken stage story supposed sure taste Taunton tell Tenby Theatre thing thought to-morrow told took town truth Weymouth whole wish word young youth
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