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... ACTOR THE TRUE STORY OF EUGENE ARAM PAGE 1 65 91 123 139 THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF GOODERE . 161 THE FUALDÈS CASE 185 THE EARLY LIFE OF CHIEF JUSTICE SCROGGS 227 The English Stage in the Eighteenth Century 1 THE ENGLISH 252999.
... ACTOR THE TRUE STORY OF EUGENE ARAM PAGE 1 65 91 123 139 THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF GOODERE . 161 THE FUALDÈS CASE 185 THE EARLY LIFE OF CHIEF JUSTICE SCROGGS 227 The English Stage in the Eighteenth Century 1 THE ENGLISH 252999.
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... chief of the " fribble " tribe of inane and insignificant dandies . Churchill , in The Rosciad , took up the parable , and drew an awful picture of the effeminate creature : Nor male , nor female ; neither and yet both ; Of neuter ...
... chief of the " fribble " tribe of inane and insignificant dandies . Churchill , in The Rosciad , took up the parable , and drew an awful picture of the effeminate creature : Nor male , nor female ; neither and yet both ; Of neuter ...
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... chief provincial centres . The theatre was becoming more and more a part of the life of the people , and , unprotected , unassisted by the State , more and more at the mercy of popular taste . No art that is left to the mercy of popular ...
... chief provincial centres . The theatre was becoming more and more a part of the life of the people , and , unprotected , unassisted by the State , more and more at the mercy of popular taste . No art that is left to the mercy of popular ...
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... chief director . Cibber's sketch of this seventeenth - century manager is one of his happiest . The great art of Mr. Rich as a manager seems to have been to do his actors out of as much of their salary as he con- veniently could . He ...
... chief director . Cibber's sketch of this seventeenth - century manager is one of his happiest . The great art of Mr. Rich as a manager seems to have been to do his actors out of as much of their salary as he con- veniently could . He ...
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... Houseman's wig , for Aram asked his wife for a handker- chief to tie about " Dicky's " head . They did not stop long ; Clarke was impatient to be gone ; " It will soon be morning ; we must get off , " he said 149 OF EUGENE ARAM.
... Houseman's wig , for Aram asked his wife for a handker- chief to tie about " Dicky's " head . They did not stop long ; Clarke was impatient to be gone ; " It will soon be morning ; we must get off , " he said 149 OF EUGENE ARAM.
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