The Stage: Both Before and Behind the Curtain, from "observations Taken on the Spot", Volumes 1-3Richard Bentley, 1840 - Theater |
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... hope , will be found to be useful information . There will be plenty of time , should they afford me plenty of opportunity , to resort to acerbities and personalities ; at present they could not further my object . At the memorable ...
... hope , will be found to be useful information . There will be plenty of time , should they afford me plenty of opportunity , to resort to acerbities and personalities ; at present they could not further my object . At the memorable ...
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... hope , be a sufficient apology for my troubling your Lordship upon the present occasion . 6 " It is stated to me , that although it was universally understood , and agreed to last year , That no greater restrictions ought to be placed ...
... hope , be a sufficient apology for my troubling your Lordship upon the present occasion . 6 " It is stated to me , that although it was universally understood , and agreed to last year , That no greater restrictions ought to be placed ...
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... hope it is unnecessary to say that I have made no references whatever to private life ; my comments are entirely of a professional nature , and as both of us are public characters as both have been managers of the two first theatres in ...
... hope it is unnecessary to say that I have made no references whatever to private life ; my comments are entirely of a professional nature , and as both of us are public characters as both have been managers of the two first theatres in ...
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... hope of his arriving at the same conclusion with the writer , it will be advisable to divide them , under separate headings . The preceding chapter has been devoted principally to a recital of the mere fact of failure - we now come to ...
... hope of his arriving at the same conclusion with the writer , it will be advisable to divide them , under separate headings . The preceding chapter has been devoted principally to a recital of the mere fact of failure - we now come to ...
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... hope that ere long such " restrictions will be removed . The distinguished patronage bestowed upon our exertions to please you , even to the highest in the realm , " and of which I feel justly proud , has enabled me , at the close of ...
... hope that ere long such " restrictions will be removed . The distinguished patronage bestowed upon our exertions to please you , even to the highest in the realm , " and of which I feel justly proud , has enabled me , at the close of ...
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