The Life of Mr. James Quin, Comedian: With the History of the Stage from His Commencing Actor to His Retreat to Bath ... |
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... fame as little better than an usurper of talents and applause . Besides , the manager considered acting as a mere mechanical acquisition , that nothing but time could procure ; and therefore , every one in his company was to serve his ...
... fame as little better than an usurper of talents and applause . Besides , the manager considered acting as a mere mechanical acquisition , that nothing but time could procure ; and therefore , every one in his company was to serve his ...
Page 27
... fame im- mortal , like another Erostratus , set fire to his stage , by writing up to an act of parliament to demolish it . The most remarkable of these politico - satyrical pieces were Pasquin , The Historical Register , and Eurydice ...
... fame im- mortal , like another Erostratus , set fire to his stage , by writing up to an act of parliament to demolish it . The most remarkable of these politico - satyrical pieces were Pasquin , The Historical Register , and Eurydice ...
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... fame , as not to be better pleased with a genteel repre- sentation of his errors and inability , than to be damned the first night of his piece's representation , to the lowest regions of public infamy . I shall illustrate this ...
... fame , as not to be better pleased with a genteel repre- sentation of his errors and inability , than to be damned the first night of his piece's representation , to the lowest regions of public infamy . I shall illustrate this ...
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... fame for Mr. Garrick though low in his person , is well shaped and neatly proportioned , and having added the qualifications of dancing and fencing to that natural gentility of manner which no art can bestow , but which our great mother ...
... fame for Mr. Garrick though low in his person , is well shaped and neatly proportioned , and having added the qualifications of dancing and fencing to that natural gentility of manner which no art can bestow , but which our great mother ...
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... fame ; and as he now took a firm resolution of never engaging again with so insolent a blockhead , as he styled Rich for this answer , there was no theatrical door open for him , without he had turned opera singer . He never- theless ...
... fame ; and as he now took a firm resolution of never engaging again with so insolent a blockhead , as he styled Rich for this answer , there was no theatrical door open for him , without he had turned opera singer . He never- theless ...
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