Autobiographies: A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever Published, Volumen1Whittaker, Treacher, and Arnot, 1830 |
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... actor , whose slight injury had been judged equal to so severe a notice . Accordingly , the next time Smith acted , he was ... actors . Why then may we not in some measure impute the scarcity of them to the wanton inhumanity of those ...
... actor , whose slight injury had been judged equal to so severe a notice . Accordingly , the next time Smith acted , he was ... actors . Why then may we not in some measure impute the scarcity of them to the wanton inhumanity of those ...
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... actors ? Why so ? If people are permitted to buy it without blushing , the theatrical merchant seems to have an ... actor to a more general favour , I doubt , while it is liable to such corruptions , and the actor himself to such ...
... actors ? Why so ? If people are permitted to buy it without blushing , the theatrical merchant seems to have an ... actor to a more general favour , I doubt , while it is liable to such corruptions , and the actor himself to such ...
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... actors yet known . - Their several thea- trical characters . THOUGH I have only promised you an account of all the material occurrences of the theatre during my own time , yet there was one which happened not above seven years before my ...
... actors yet known . - Their several thea- trical characters . THOUGH I have only promised you an account of all the material occurrences of the theatre during my own time , yet there was one which happened not above seven years before my ...
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... actors have the warm scenes of his genius given to posterity , without being himself in his action equal to his writing ! A strong proof that actors , like poets , must be born such . Eloquence and elocution are quite different talents ...
... actors have the warm scenes of his genius given to posterity , without being himself in his action equal to his writing ! A strong proof that actors , like poets , must be born such . Eloquence and elocution are quite different talents ...
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... actors in the world must have grown tedious and tasteless to the spectator . For what pleasure is not languid to satiety ? It was there- fore one of our greatest happinesses ( during my time of being in the management of the stage ) ...
... actors in the world must have grown tedious and tasteless to the spectator . For what pleasure is not languid to satiety ? It was there- fore one of our greatest happinesses ( during my time of being in the management of the stage ) ...
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Autobiographies: A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing ..., Volumen1 Vista completa - 1826 |
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