The Stage: Both Before and Behind the Curtain, from "observations Taken on the Spot", Volumes 1-3Richard Bentley, 1840 - Theater |
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... nature , otherwise so frequently necessary , had it not been for the occurrence of a series of events , during its preparation , which would at first appear almost as incredible as they are unprecedented ; and which , from their rapid ...
... nature , otherwise so frequently necessary , had it not been for the occurrence of a series of events , during its preparation , which would at first appear almost as incredible as they are unprecedented ; and which , from their rapid ...
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... nature ; with the invariable conclusion , " so you are writing your life , I find . " Thousands in this world profess to " find " what yet was never " lost ; " and to that class of people I have invariably and truly replied , " I am ...
... nature ; with the invariable conclusion , " so you are writing your life , I find . " Thousands in this world profess to " find " what yet was never " lost ; " and to that class of people I have invariably and truly replied , " I am ...
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... nature , and as both of us are public characters as both have been managers of the two first theatres in the empire - as he has personally , as well as professionally , attacked me , and as I do not happen to think him as great an ...
... nature , and as both of us are public characters as both have been managers of the two first theatres in the empire - as he has personally , as well as professionally , attacked me , and as I do not happen to think him as great an ...
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... than mortal eloquence , " to those who lent their best assistance to render them such a desert ? The nature of that assistance , and what I conceive to have been my own long struggles to avert so lamentable a consummation , will herein be.
... than mortal eloquence , " to those who lent their best assistance to render them such a desert ? The nature of that assistance , and what I conceive to have been my own long struggles to avert so lamentable a consummation , will herein be.
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... 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 detract from my doings , for the stranger to be told that I was short of a leg , or ...
... 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 detract from my doings , for the stranger to be told that I was short of a leg , or ...
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