The Stage: Both Before and Behind the Curtain, from "observations Taken on the Spot", Volumes 1-3Richard Bentley, 1840 - Theater |
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... facts , rather than trusting to fiction , and supporting argument by document . There is no possibility of refuting the various autho- rities cited which are interspersed throughout these pages , the records and letters inserted , the ...
... facts , rather than trusting to fiction , and supporting argument by document . There is no possibility of refuting the various autho- rities cited which are interspersed throughout these pages , the records and letters inserted , the ...
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... fact , and that our gracious Queen would never have sanctioned a continuance of regulations , equally unwholesome and As a proof how rooted has been the determination to carry out the position which I laboured so long , but in vain , to ...
... fact , and that our gracious Queen would never have sanctioned a continuance of regulations , equally unwholesome and As a proof how rooted has been the determination to carry out the position which I laboured so long , but in vain , to ...
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... fact , viz . that on the very first night of Lent , when the prohibition was taken off , Her Majesty was pleased to visit Covent Garden Theatre , and to sit out the evening's entertainments . It can hardly be believed , were it not a ...
... fact , viz . that on the very first night of Lent , when the prohibition was taken off , Her Majesty was pleased to visit Covent Garden Theatre , and to sit out the evening's entertainments . It can hardly be believed , were it not a ...
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... fact , when or where the writer was born , what was his parentage , or what the nature of his education . Though the prejudice may run in favour of the usual number of limbs , and a limited quantity of back * , yet it would no more ...
... fact , when or where the writer was born , what was his parentage , or what the nature of his education . Though the prejudice may run in favour of the usual number of limbs , and a limited quantity of back * , yet it would no more ...
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... fact that , like the rest of my fellow creatures , I have had the average number of relations -that my father wore a sword instead of swallowing one - that I was considered , as the Rev. Mr. Plum- tree * has it , " respectable till I ...
... fact that , like the rest of my fellow creatures , I have had the average number of relations -that my father wore a sword instead of swallowing one - that I was considered , as the Rev. Mr. Plum- tree * has it , " respectable till I ...
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