An Apology for the Life of George Anne Bellamy: Late of Covent-garden Theatreauthor, and sold, 1786 |
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... myself debarred from it by any ties that fubfifted be- tween myself and Mr. Calcraft ; for these were now perfectly diffolved by his duplicity . Had I encouraged fuch a wifh , I could foon have extri- cated myself from all my ...
... myself debarred from it by any ties that fubfifted be- tween myself and Mr. Calcraft ; for these were now perfectly diffolved by his duplicity . Had I encouraged fuch a wifh , I could foon have extri- cated myself from all my ...
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... myself , I had leisure to indulge my melancholy . I could not even help envying the happiness of my fervants , in whofe bofoms cheerful innocence feemed to reign , whilft I was tortured with the fevereft reflections . Thefe B 3 Thefe ...
... myself , I had leisure to indulge my melancholy . I could not even help envying the happiness of my fervants , in whofe bofoms cheerful innocence feemed to reign , whilft I was tortured with the fevereft reflections . Thefe B 3 Thefe ...
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... myself , to take up their abode at the inn . There being but one room below stairs , and that , like the cobler's , ferving at once for " parlour , for kitchen , and " hall , " we all fat together ; only the parlour was divided from the ...
... myself , to take up their abode at the inn . There being but one room below stairs , and that , like the cobler's , ferving at once for " parlour , for kitchen , and " hall , " we all fat together ; only the parlour was divided from the ...
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... myself to the fight of the gazing crowd . And so great and natural was their furprize and disappointment , that they immediate- ly vanished , and left me to crawl into the house , without admiration or molestation . I spent the evening ...
... myself to the fight of the gazing crowd . And so great and natural was their furprize and disappointment , that they immediate- ly vanished , and left me to crawl into the house , without admiration or molestation . I spent the evening ...
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... myself . And , indeed , I must attribute a great part of the fuccefs we met with to their partiality ; the company in Crow - street being infinitely ftronger than ours . B 6 That That confifted of Barry , Woodward , Abington and ...
... myself . And , indeed , I must attribute a great part of the fuccefs we met with to their partiality ; the company in Crow - street being infinitely ftronger than ours . B 6 That That confifted of Barry , Woodward , Abington and ...
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acquainted advertiſement affiftance affured againſt Alderman anfwer appearance bufinefs buſineſs Calcraft caufe cauſe chaife circumftance Colman conclufion confent confequence confiderable Cracroft creditor debt defired Digges engagement expence faid falutation fame favour feemed fent fervant ferve fettled feven fhall fhew fhort fhould figned fince firft firſt fituation fome foon friendſhip ftill fuccefs fuch fummer fuppofed fure furprized gentleman GEORGE ANNE BELLAMY greateſt herſelf himſelf honour houfe houſe hundred pounds informed JOHN CALCRAFT juft juſt lady laſt letter likewife lofs Lord Lord Granby Lordſhip Metham Mifs Wordley moft moſt muſt myſelf neceffary never notwithſtanding obferving obliged occafion paffed perfon performer play pleaſed pleaſure poffeffed poffible prevented promiſe proprietors purpoſe racter reafon received refidence refuſed requeſted Scotland ſee ſeemed ſhe Sir George ſome ſtage theatre thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe tion told ufual uſe vifit whilft whofe whoſe woman Woodward
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3 ページ - tis slander; Whose edge is sharper than the sword ; whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile; whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world : kings, queens, and states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave This viperous slander enters.
18 ページ - Ah me! for aught that ever I could read. Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth: But, either it was different in blood; Her.
18 ページ - Or, if there were a fympathy in choice, War, death, or ficknefs did lay fiege to it ; 'Making it momentary as a found, Swift as a fhadow, fhort as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, .
152 ページ - Tis thou, thrice sweet and gracious goddess, addressing myself to LIBERTY, whom all in public or in private worship, whose taste is grateful, and ever will be so, till NATURE herself shall change no tint of words can spot thy snowy mantle...
68 ページ - Glasgow, told his auditors that he dreamed the preceding night he was in the infernal regions, at a grand entertainment, where all the devils...
173 ページ - I wondered any gentleman who profefled liberal fentiments could advife a breach of truft. He told me that, if he had got hold of it, he would have burnt it, as he was fure two capital performers had figned it, who would not have done fo, had another paper been preferrted in their favour.
126 ページ - Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key, As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds Had been incorporate. So we grew together Like to a double cherry, seeming parted But yet an union in partition, Two lovely berries moulded on one stem...
9 ページ - Fashion to yourself the idea of a little dirty creature, bent nearly double, enfeebled by fatigue, her countenance tinged with the jaundice, and in every respect the reverse of a person who could make the least pretensions to beauty.
72 ページ - I had prevailed upon a gentleman, who was poffefled of fome talents, to compile a little piece from the celebrated poem of Offian ; and I appeared in the character of Commela, there, with great fuccefs. But at Glafgow the applaufe I received was beyond all bounds. This little piece alone, tacked to any indifferent comedy, would fill the houfe, fo that it was crowded every night ;' which tended greatly to relieve me from the fatigue I daily underwent, not only from the duties of my profeffion, but...