Autobiographies: A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever Published, Volumen1Whittaker, Treacher, and Arnot, 1830 |
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... Dogget yet come to the stage ; nor was Booth initiated till about six years after them ; or Mrs Oldfield known till the year 1700. I must therefore reserve the four last for their proper period , and proceed to the actresses that were ...
... Dogget yet come to the stage ; nor was Booth initiated till about six years after them ; or Mrs Oldfield known till the year 1700. I must therefore reserve the four last for their proper period , and proceed to the actresses that were ...
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... Dogget , that though it is only seen in the fourth act , it may be no dispraise to the play to say it probably owed the greatest part of its success to his performance . But as the case was now desperate , any resource was better than ...
... Dogget , that though it is only seen in the fourth act , it may be no dispraise to the play to say it probably owed the greatest part of its success to his performance . But as the case was now desperate , any resource was better than ...
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... Dogget's performance , I wanted but little trouble to make me perfect in the words ; so that when it came to my turn to rehearse , while others read their parts from their books , I had put mine in my pocket , and went through the first ...
... Dogget's performance , I wanted but little trouble to make me perfect in the words ; so that when it came to my turn to rehearse , while others read their parts from their books , I had put mine in my pocket , and went through the first ...
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... Dogget himself was in the pit at the same time , it would be too rank affectation if I should not confess , that to see him there a witness of my recep- tion , was to me as consummate a triumph as the heart of vanity could be indulged ...
... Dogget himself was in the pit at the same time , it would be too rank affectation if I should not confess , that to see him there a witness of my recep- tion , was to me as consummate a triumph as the heart of vanity could be indulged ...
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... Dogget had acquired , from acting his Ben in " Love for Love , " made him a more declared male- content on such occasions ; he overvalued comedy for its being nearer to nature than tragedy , which is al- lowed to say many fine things ...
... Dogget had acquired , from acting his Ben in " Love for Love , " made him a more declared male- content on such occasions ; he overvalued comedy for its being nearer to nature than tragedy , which is al- lowed to say many fine things ...
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