Autobiographies: A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever Published, Volumen1Whittaker, Treacher, and Arnot, 1830 |
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... labour . But behind all this there is something inwardly inciting , which I cannot express in few words ; I must therefore a little make bold with your patience . A man who has passed above forty years of his life upon a theatre , where ...
... labour . But behind all this there is something inwardly inciting , which I cannot express in few words ; I must therefore a little make bold with your patience . A man who has passed above forty years of his life upon a theatre , where ...
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... labours , that so many hasty writers have been encouraged to publish the lives of the late Mrs Oldfield , Mr Wilks , and Mr Booth , in less time after their deaths than one could suppose it cost to transcribe them . Now , sir , when my ...
... labours , that so many hasty writers have been encouraged to publish the lives of the late Mrs Oldfield , Mr Wilks , and Mr Booth , in less time after their deaths than one could suppose it cost to transcribe them . Now , sir , when my ...
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... labours may outlive those of my mortal contemporaries . At the same time that I am so humble in my pre- tensions to fame , I would not be thought to under- value it ; nature will not suffer us to despise it , but she may sometimes make ...
... labours may outlive those of my mortal contemporaries . At the same time that I am so humble in my pre- tensions to fame , I would not be thought to under- value it ; nature will not suffer us to despise it , but she may sometimes make ...
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... labour of the revolution , the news being then just brought to London , that the prince of Orange at the head of an army was landed in the west . When I came to Nottingham , I found my father in arms there , among those forces which the ...
... labour of the revolution , the news being then just brought to London , that the prince of Orange at the head of an army was landed in the west . When I came to Nottingham , I found my father in arms there , among those forces which the ...
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... labours , 1 am something more than sus- picious that I may myself have made one . But to keep a little closer to Betterton . When this favourite play I am speaking of , from its being too frequently acted , was worn out , and came to be ...
... labours , 1 am something more than sus- picious that I may myself have made one . But to keep a little closer to Betterton . When this favourite play I am speaking of , from its being too frequently acted , was worn out , and came to be ...
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Autobiographies: A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing ..., Volumen1 Vista completa - 1826 |
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