The Stage: Both Before and Behind the Curtain, from "observations Taken on the Spot", Volumes 1-3Richard Bentley, 1840 - Theater |
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... Feelings of disappoint- ment or personal annoyance shall in no instance take precedence of experience , or matters of fact . Of that little article " disappointment , " I do not feel a sensa- tion , being vain enough to think that I ...
... Feelings of disappoint- ment or personal annoyance shall in no instance take precedence of experience , or matters of fact . Of that little article " disappointment , " I do not feel a sensa- tion , being vain enough to think that I ...
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... feeling , it is not for me to determine ; but I can conscientiously say , that when I vacated the managerial chair of Drury Lane theatre , I forcibly felt the truth of Sir Robert Walpole's remark to his medical adviser , on whom he had ...
... feeling , it is not for me to determine ; but I can conscientiously say , that when I vacated the managerial chair of Drury Lane theatre , I forcibly felt the truth of Sir Robert Walpole's remark to his medical adviser , on whom he had ...
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... feeling is of an essentially dramatic tendency . Take for example France , Italy , and Ger- many , as forming the most enlightened portion of Europe , and in all the principal cities - certainly in the capitals of those dominions , this ...
... feeling is of an essentially dramatic tendency . Take for example France , Italy , and Ger- many , as forming the most enlightened portion of Europe , and in all the principal cities - certainly in the capitals of those dominions , this ...
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... feelings of an author are solely dependent upon their disposition - the welfare of the theatre they are bound to is balanced upon their pleasure . In all this SELF is the mighty ruler - SELF the predominant feature . An actor , who from ...
... feelings of an author are solely dependent upon their disposition - the welfare of the theatre they are bound to is balanced upon their pleasure . In all this SELF is the mighty ruler - SELF the predominant feature . An actor , who from ...
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... it may prove to my feelings to be compelled to return to this sys- tem of the maximum , I am sorry to say , that there appears ( under existing circumstances ) no other 110 66 66 OPINION OF MR . HARRIS . expedient ADDRESS . 109.
... it may prove to my feelings to be compelled to return to this sys- tem of the maximum , I am sorry to say , that there appears ( under existing circumstances ) no other 110 66 66 OPINION OF MR . HARRIS . expedient ADDRESS . 109.
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