Autobiographies: A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever Published, Tom 1Whittaker, Treacher, and Arnot, 1830 |
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... performance in the general modesty of declining it . A most uncomfortable life I led among them for many a day after ! I was so jeered , laughed at , and hated , as a pragmatical bastard ( schoolboys ' language ) who had betrayed the ...
... performance in the general modesty of declining it . A most uncomfortable life I led among them for many a day after ! I was so jeered , laughed at , and hated , as a pragmatical bastard ( schoolboys ' language ) who had betrayed the ...
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... performance in the part of Lady Townly , my words ran thus , viz . " It is not enough to say , that here she outdid her usual outdoing . " A most vile jingle , I grant it ! You may well ask me , how could I possibly commit such a ...
... performance in the part of Lady Townly , my words ran thus , viz . " It is not enough to say , that here she outdid her usual outdoing . " A most vile jingle , I grant it ! You may well ask me , how could I possibly commit such a ...
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... performance with such loud and various notes of mockery as other young men of honour in the same place have some- times made themselves undauntedly merry with . Thus , deaf to all murmurs or entreaties of those about him , he pursued ...
... performance with such loud and various notes of mockery as other young men of honour in the same place have some- times made themselves undauntedly merry with . Thus , deaf to all murmurs or entreaties of those about him , he pursued ...
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... performances as an actor : nor is it within the reach of rule or precept to complete either of them . Instruction , it is true , may guard them equally against faults or ab- surdities ; but there it stops ; nature must do the rest . To ...
... performances as an actor : nor is it within the reach of rule or precept to complete either of them . Instruction , it is true , may guard them equally against faults or ab- surdities ; but there it stops ; nature must do the rest . To ...
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... performance will come out oddly disguised , or somewhere defectively unsurprising to the hearer . Of this defect too I will give you yet a stranger instance , which you will allow fear could not be the occasion of . If you remember ...
... performance will come out oddly disguised , or somewhere defectively unsurprising to the hearer . Of this defect too I will give you yet a stranger instance , which you will allow fear could not be the occasion of . If you remember ...
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