The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners : with Strictures on Their Epitome, the Stage, Том 15proprieters., 1802 |
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... Miss Pope , for whose benefit , in the year 1773 , our young candidate for fame , sent , anonymously , an occasional ... MISS POPE's benefit , and introduced Miss Walpole in REGIMENTALS ; no particular hopes of its lasting success were ...
... Miss Pope , for whose benefit , in the year 1773 , our young candidate for fame , sent , anonymously , an occasional ... MISS POPE's benefit , and introduced Miss Walpole in REGIMENTALS ; no particular hopes of its lasting success were ...
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... missed a single rehearsal ; and on the heroine , MISS TWIST , not answering his expectation , MRS . CARGILL was engaged upon the spur of the occasion , not more than four nights preceding the performance . The quaintness of this French ...
... missed a single rehearsal ; and on the heroine , MISS TWIST , not answering his expectation , MRS . CARGILL was engaged upon the spur of the occasion , not more than four nights preceding the performance . The quaintness of this French ...
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... Miss Romanzini ( now Mrs. Bland ) , it proved little more than a nine- days ' wonder . In the same season Mr. Cobb tried his hand successfully in as- sisting Mr. King ( then the manager ) in à pantomime called HUR- LY BURLY ; and a ...
... Miss Romanzini ( now Mrs. Bland ) , it proved little more than a nine- days ' wonder . In the same season Mr. Cobb tried his hand successfully in as- sisting Mr. King ( then the manager ) in à pantomime called HUR- LY BURLY ; and a ...
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... Miss Cunningham , led him to the solitude and seclusion of his fa- vourite Hawthornden . This distressing event increased his habitual melancholy , and gave birth to some of those sonnets which are rendered so truly delightful to taste ...
... Miss Cunningham , led him to the solitude and seclusion of his fa- vourite Hawthornden . This distressing event increased his habitual melancholy , and gave birth to some of those sonnets which are rendered so truly delightful to taste ...
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... Miss De Camp , Mrs. Moun- tain took her character in A House to be sold , in which she introduced an Italian air with the most charming effect , and played the part , which is somewhat dif- ficult , with great spirit and success . 8 ...
... Miss De Camp , Mrs. Moun- tain took her character in A House to be sold , in which she introduced an Italian air with the most charming effect , and played the part , which is somewhat dif- ficult , with great spirit and success . 8 ...
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