Autobiographies: A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever Published, Volumen9Whittaker, Treacher, and Arnot, 1827 |
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... stage as a king or general , seemed born to com- mand ! Thy representations of the human character , at those moments , were to me a school of wisdom , while by thy conduct off the stage thou didst instruct me how to separate real merit ...
... stage as a king or general , seemed born to com- mand ! Thy representations of the human character , at those moments , were to me a school of wisdom , while by thy conduct off the stage thou didst instruct me how to separate real merit ...
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... stage were as familiar to me , as to the man that lighted the lamps . When I was hard pressed for admittance , therefore , I used to stand at the entrance allotted to the performers , and slip in dexterously behind the guards Then , to ...
... stage were as familiar to me , as to the man that lighted the lamps . When I was hard pressed for admittance , therefore , I used to stand at the entrance allotted to the performers , and slip in dexterously behind the guards Then , to ...
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... stage so as to hear him speak , I was transported in no slight degree ; but if I could contrive only to speak a single word to him myself , my ecstacy exceeded all bounds , and I thought myself honoured beyond the common lot of mortals ...
... stage so as to hear him speak , I was transported in no slight degree ; but if I could contrive only to speak a single word to him myself , my ecstacy exceeded all bounds , and I thought myself honoured beyond the common lot of mortals ...
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... stage . The taste for this kind of toy soon spread among the children at Weimar , and no long period elapsed before almost every boy had his Lilliputian theatre , while my vanity was not a little flattered by being constantly applied to ...
... stage . The taste for this kind of toy soon spread among the children at Weimar , and no long period elapsed before almost every boy had his Lilliputian theatre , while my vanity was not a little flattered by being constantly applied to ...
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... stage , for the first time , before the mighty public itself . I enquired of everybody I saw , whether or not I had done justice to my character ? —The un- grateful wretches ! they scarcely remembered the appearance of such an ...
... stage , for the first time , before the mighty public itself . I enquired of everybody I saw , whether or not I had done justice to my character ? —The un- grateful wretches ! they scarcely remembered the appearance of such an ...
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Autobiographies: A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing ..., Volumen9 Vista completa - 1830 |
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