The Stage: Both Before and Behind the Curtain: From "observations Taken on the Spot.", Volume 1R. Bentley, 1840 - Theater |
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Page xix
... see supported so soon again - Dowton , Wallack , Harley , Braham , Gattie , Browne , Miss Stephens , and Madame Vestris , sustaining the principal parts . The concocters of humbug must not suppose that people do not PREFACE . xix.
... see supported so soon again - Dowton , Wallack , Harley , Braham , Gattie , Browne , Miss Stephens , and Madame Vestris , sustaining the principal parts . The concocters of humbug must not suppose that people do not PREFACE . xix.
Page xxi
... principal devotees at the shrine of the dramatic art , popular in all circles , and beloved in his own , General Lincoln Stanhope , has been suddenly torn from the enjoyments of this fragile life ! And the unpretending , anxious ...
... principal devotees at the shrine of the dramatic art , popular in all circles , and beloved in his own , General Lincoln Stanhope , has been suddenly torn from the enjoyments of this fragile life ! And the unpretending , anxious ...
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... principal amongst them . I cannot be supposed to have any particular devotion for a person who committed upon me the outrage that Mr. Macready did ; nor any great degree of admi- ration for a system of management arrayed , personally as ...
... principal amongst them . I cannot be supposed to have any particular devotion for a person who committed upon me the outrage that Mr. Macready did ; nor any great degree of admi- ration for a system of management arrayed , personally as ...
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... principal performer " -to " it is reported " - " we have reason to believe " - " but one opinion seems " to prevail " — " for on our parts we think , " & c . & c . and all such awful twaddle , I purpose applying my- self to deeds and ...
... principal performer " -to " it is reported " - " we have reason to believe " - " but one opinion seems " to prevail " — " for on our parts we think , " & c . & c . and all such awful twaddle , I purpose applying my- self to deeds and ...
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... principal manager , it is impossible to withhold the praise so justly due for repeated and noble efforts made during this period of ten years ; or to say that great talents , considerable property , and much attention were not ...
... principal manager , it is impossible to withhold the praise so justly due for repeated and noble efforts made during this period of ten years ; or to say that great talents , considerable property , and much attention were not ...
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