Memoirs of a Manager: Or, Life's Stage with New Scenery, Volume 1W. Bragg, 1830 |
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... Thoughts - Sherwood Forest - Bunny Wrestling - Lord Rancliff - Cobbett - Duke of Wellington - Circle of Fame - Note Book - Daily Habits Hunting - Coursing - Dignum ( the Singer ) on Horse - back- London - Theatre - Lewis , Kemble - Mrs ...
... Thoughts - Sherwood Forest - Bunny Wrestling - Lord Rancliff - Cobbett - Duke of Wellington - Circle of Fame - Note Book - Daily Habits Hunting - Coursing - Dignum ( the Singer ) on Horse - back- London - Theatre - Lewis , Kemble - Mrs ...
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... thought that there is a something very pleasing and most conscienciously comfortable in a good christening , that is , in such a hearty old fashioned christening as mine was . Not like your half and half things of the present day , or ...
... thought that there is a something very pleasing and most conscienciously comfortable in a good christening , that is , in such a hearty old fashioned christening as mine was . Not like your half and half things of the present day , or ...
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Or, Life's Stage with New Scenery Henry Lee. be thought of to promote the welfare , comfort and happiness of those present ! There used to be some- thing good in all that was provided , to correspond with the good intent of the purpose ...
Or, Life's Stage with New Scenery Henry Lee. be thought of to promote the welfare , comfort and happiness of those present ! There used to be some- thing good in all that was provided , to correspond with the good intent of the purpose ...
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... thought an " echo to the sense ! " as if strength of faith were best portrayed by the potency of the emblem . Nor were our fathers singular in this idea . It has been diffused throughout the world . So thought the regenerated Indian ...
... thought an " echo to the sense ! " as if strength of faith were best portrayed by the potency of the emblem . Nor were our fathers singular in this idea . It has been diffused throughout the world . So thought the regenerated Indian ...
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... thought of the excellent doctrine that had just been admin- istered to him , " Oh , very good " ( replied the honest , simple native ) very good indeed ! very excel- lent doctrine ! I like it much ! it gives me great com- fort ! I feel ...
... thought of the excellent doctrine that had just been admin- istered to him , " Oh , very good " ( replied the honest , simple native ) very good indeed ! very excel- lent doctrine ! I like it much ! it gives me great com- fort ! I feel ...
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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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Página 51 - ... scribbler, if ever there was one. He begins his recollections by telling the reader that ' he has known no regularity . . . his journey has been, like the comet's — eccentric '. Here is a self-revealing passage : I had imbibed early in life a taste of a romantic kind ; — a passion, perhaps common amongst young men whose minds are somewhat ardent, or in any degree enterprising. I had conceived a desire of notice, of notoriety of some kind or other. If not talented, so as to be capable of obtaining...
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Página 126 - CAT — (notwith^anding its nine lives !) could not have lived long in such an exhausted atmosphere. I say exhausted, because there was no vital air, no oxygen, left unconsumed within it. As to the crowd at the top of the stairs, life was sustained in them only by the occasional whiffs of pure [air that came up from the gallery door- way.
Página 84 - ... upon the lady, and perhaps is the only part of her conduct that is reprehensible ; for, say what we will, if she did not mean to give his passion a suitable return, why did she feed him with hopes even to the last ?— for was not this feeding him with hopes?— false hopes...
Página 84 - ... which she happened just then to be using-, her left hand being thrust into a silk stocking, with a new Whitechapel needle stuck therein This peculiar incident was categorically noticed at the coroner's inquest, and considered of very material consequence : The lady however not relaxing in her cruelly, Mr. Bateman's
Página 83 - This gentleman, a pattern to all true lovers— suspended himself from the bough of a tree, in the garden belonging to the young lady who was the object of his passion. Mr. Bateman's biographers differ in one...
Página 84 - Alas ! alas ! Mr. Bateman (like most lovers) argued wrongly ! Poor dear man ! He remains a memorable example of illfated love, and his mistress a remarkable instance of implacable cruelty !_Mr.