Autobiographies: A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever Published, Volumen1Whittaker, Treacher, and Arnot, 1830 |
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... theatre , where he has never appeared to be himself , may have naturally excited the curiosity of his spectators to know what he really was when in no- body's shape but his own ; and whether he , who by his profession had so long been ...
... theatre , where he has never appeared to be himself , may have naturally excited the curiosity of his spectators to know what he really was when in no- body's shape but his own ; and whether he , who by his profession had so long been ...
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... theatre , from having the superfluous capacity of writing myself the characters I have acted . Here perhaps I may again seem to be vain ; but if all these facts are true ( as true they are ) how can I help it ? Why am I obliged to ...
... theatre , from having the superfluous capacity of writing myself the characters I have acted . Here perhaps I may again seem to be vain ; but if all these facts are true ( as true they are ) how can I help it ? Why am I obliged to ...
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... theatre ; nay , that this very confession is no more a sign of my modesty , than it is a proof of my judgment , that , in short , you may roundly tell me , that ( or Cibber ) vult videri pauper , et est pauper . When humble Cinna cries ...
... theatre ; nay , that this very confession is no more a sign of my modesty , than it is a proof of my judgment , that , in short , you may roundly tell me , that ( or Cibber ) vult videri pauper , et est pauper . When humble Cinna cries ...
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... how unequally his profession and mine were provided for ; when I , who had been the outcast of fortune , could find means , from my income of the theatre , before I was my own master there , to supply in his MR COLLEY CIBBER . 39.
... how unequally his profession and mine were provided for ; when I , who had been the outcast of fortune , could find means , from my income of the theatre , before I was my own master there , to supply in his MR COLLEY CIBBER . 39.
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... theatre are still so strong in my memory , that perhaps few except those who have felt thein can conceive : and I am yet so far willing to excuse my folly , that I am convinced , were it possible to take off that disgrace and prejudice ...
... theatre are still so strong in my memory , that perhaps few except those who have felt thein can conceive : and I am yet so far willing to excuse my folly , that I am convinced , were it possible to take off that disgrace and prejudice ...
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