Autobiographies: A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever Published, Volumen1Whittaker, Treacher, and Arnot, 1830 |
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... Wilks , and Mr Booth , in less time after their deaths than one could suppose it cost to transcribe them . Now , sir , when my time comes , lest they should think it worth while to handle my memory with the same freedom , I am willing ...
... Wilks , and Mr Booth , in less time after their deaths than one could suppose it cost to transcribe them . Now , sir , when my time comes , lest they should think it worth while to handle my memory with the same freedom , I am willing ...
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... Wilks or 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 ...
... Wilks or 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 ...
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... Wilks commencing actor . His success . - Facts relating to his theatrical talent . - Actors more or less esteemed from their private characters . THE Lincoln's - inn - fields company were now , in 1693 , a commonwealth like that of ...
... Wilks commencing actor . His success . - Facts relating to his theatrical talent . - Actors more or less esteemed from their private characters . THE Lincoln's - inn - fields company were now , in 1693 , a commonwealth like that of ...
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... Wilks , who now had been five years in great esteem on the Dublin theatre , returned to that of Drury- lane ; in which last he had first set out , and had con- tinued to act some small parts for one winter only . The considerable figure ...
... Wilks , who now had been five years in great esteem on the Dublin theatre , returned to that of Drury- lane ; in which last he had first set out , and had con- tinued to act some small parts for one winter only . The considerable figure ...
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... Wilks acted the Moor ; and the applause he received in it warmed him to so strong an inclination for the stage , that he immediately preferred it to all his other views in life ; for he quitted his post , and with the first fair ...
... Wilks acted the Moor ; and the applause he received in it warmed him to so strong an inclination for the stage , that he immediately preferred it to all his other views in life ; for he quitted his post , and with the first fair ...
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