Scenes from the Life of an ActorGarrett & Company, 1853 - 246 páginas |
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... matter of birth , is sufficiently legitimate . Frederick Hill , Esq . , of Rutland , Vermont , was my grandfather on ... matters . My mother was the daughter of Stephen Hull , of Hartford , Connecticut . Her name , Nancy . She was said ...
... matter of birth , is sufficiently legitimate . Frederick Hill , Esq . , of Rutland , Vermont , was my grandfather on ... matters . My mother was the daughter of Stephen Hull , of Hartford , Connecticut . Her name , Nancy . She was said ...
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... doubtless , I rejoiced at the loose reins by which I was guided . I do not know that I shall further introduce mere family matters into this period of my life . The peculiarities of my progenitors are of some value to 16 PICTORIAL LIFE OF.
... doubtless , I rejoiced at the loose reins by which I was guided . I do not know that I shall further introduce mere family matters into this period of my life . The peculiarities of my progenitors are of some value to 16 PICTORIAL LIFE OF.
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... matter , and to imitate his manner ; if I may believe the testimony of his listeners and admirers , who witnessed my version of his " Noses , " I succeeded admirably . One of the farm boys said — as he , with staring eyes and gaping ...
... matter , and to imitate his manner ; if I may believe the testimony of his listeners and admirers , who witnessed my version of his " Noses , " I succeeded admirably . One of the farm boys said — as he , with staring eyes and gaping ...
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... matters as appertain to such a time . Well , I did go to see Potter . I sung his songs , and imitated his oddities . For this I was called up to be publicly reprimanded , in presence of my companions , all of whom sympathised with me in ...
... matters as appertain to such a time . Well , I did go to see Potter . I sung his songs , and imitated his oddities . For this I was called up to be publicly reprimanded , in presence of my companions , all of whom sympathised with me in ...
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... matters naturally belonging to a life of single blessedness , in which state Gad Brickford lived , on a road much frequented in Taunton . A strange attach- ment he had for horses , sailors not usually rating these animals over high ...
... matters naturally belonging to a life of single blessedness , in which state Gad Brickford lived , on a road much frequented in Taunton . A strange attach- ment he had for horses , sailors not usually rating these animals over high ...
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50 Cents a'ter acquainted actor adventures æronaut afore amusement Amy Lawrence asked audience balloon Bill Bill Brown Blake Boston BUSTLE called Carlisle comedian comic critter diskivered dollars door dramatic engaged England eyes feller folks Forrest Rose gentleman George George Handel ginerally give Go to blazes Green Mountain Boy guess hand Hill's Hitty honor horse illustrated incidents intew Isaac Barrow Jakeman JEDEDIAH Julius Cæsar kind land larn laugh leetle letter live look manager MARKAM mind Miss Spinks mother never night nothin octavo pages Park theatre Parkins performance persons play player racter reader romance s'pose scenes Sergeant Sampson Simpson song squire stage stars story stun Taunton tavern tell there's things thought tion TOMPKINS town trade Uncle WHEELER Yankee character Yankee Hill young
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Página 192 - But these are but their outcasts. View them near At home, where all their worth and pride is placed; And there their hospitable fires burn clear, And there the lowliest farm-house hearth is graced With manly hearts, in piety sincere, Faithful in love, in honor stern and chaste, In friendship warm and true, in danger brave, Beloved in life, and sainted in the grave.
Página 196 - ... accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed, that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Página 164 - Sir, he hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book ; he hath not eat paper, as it were ; he hath not drunk ink : his intellect is not replenished ; he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts...
Página 188 - Oh — never may a son of thine, Where'er his wandering steps incline, Forget the sky which bent above His childhood like a dream of love — The stream beneath the green hill flowing — The broad-armed trees above it growing — The clear breeze through the foliage blowing; Or, hear unmoved the taunt of scorn Breathed o'er the brave New England born...
Página 192 - Or, wandering through the southern countries, teaching The ABC from Webster's spelling-book; Gallant and Godly, making love and preaching, And gaining, by what they call " hook and crook," And what the moralists call overreaching, A decent living. The Virginians look Upon them with as favorable eyes As Gabriel on the devil in paradise.
Página 114 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden -flower grows wild; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year...
Página 188 - Land of the beautiful and brave— The freeman's home— the martyr's grave— The nursery of giant men, Whose deeds have linked with every glen, And every hill and every stream, The romance of some warrior-dream!
Página 187 - LAND of the forest and the rock, Of dark blue lake and mighty river, Of mountains reared aloft to mock The storm's career, the lightning's shock, My own green land forever...
Página 12 - I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood.