 | Great Britain - 1834 - 530 pages
...little gestures most anxious to be chosen as the little God of Love. I chose him, and little did I then imagine that my little Cupid would eventually become...urchin was neither more nor less than Edmund Kean." The next mention we find made of his dramatic doings is still more memorable, as connected with, and... | |
 | Great Britain - 1834 - 492 pages
...little gestures most anxious to be chosen as the little God of Love. I chose him, and little did I then imagine that my little Cupid would eventually become...urchin was neither more nor less than Edmund Kean." The next meniion we find made of his dramatic doings is still more memorable, as connected with, and... | |
 | Bryan Waller Procter - 1835 - 564 pages
...little gestures, most anxious to be chosen as the little god of love. I chose him, and little did I then imagine that my little Cupid would eventually become...(! ! !), one of my most pleasurable recollections." The reader has our full authority to laugh at this burlesque. We afterwards (about 1794 or 1795; find... | |
 | Barry Cornwall - Actors - 1835 - 278 pages
...little gestures, most anxious to be chosen as the little god of love. I chose him, and little did I then imagine that my little Cupid would eventually become...(! ! !), one of my most pleasurable recollections." The reader has our full authority to laugh at this burlesque. We afterwards (about 1794 or 1795) find... | |
 | Barry Cornwall - Actors - 1835 - 272 pages
...little gestures, most anxious to be chosen as the little god of love. I chose him, and little did I then imagine that my little Cupid would eventually become...then little urchin was neither more nor less than — 0 Edmund Kean. He has often told me that he ever after this period (!) felt a regard for me, from... | |
 | William Warland Clapp - 1853 - 508 pages
...and gestures most anxious to be chosen as the little god of love. I chose him, and little did I then imagine, that my little Cupid would eventually become...urchin was neither more nor less than Edmund Kean." The little urchin continued to serve in the theatre, and when John Philip Kemble conceived the idea... | |
 | William Warland Clapp - Theater - 1853 - 510 pages
...and gestures most anxious to be chosen as the little god of love. I chose him, and little did I then imagine, that my little Cupid would eventually become...urchin was neither more nor less than Edmund Kean." The little urchin continued to serve in the theatre, and when John Philip Kcmble conceived the idea... | |
 | William Warland Clapp - Theater - 1853 - 496 pages
...and gestures most anxious to be chosen as the little god of love. I chose him, and little did I then imagine, that my little Cupid would eventually become...urchin was neither more nor less than Edmund Kean." The little urchin continued to serve in the theatre, and when John Philip Kemble conceived the idea... | |
 | Frederick William Hawkins - Actors - 1869 - 454 pages
...little gestures most anxious to be chosen as the little God of Love. I chose him, and little did I then imagine that my little Cupid would eventually become a great actor : the then little urchin was nothing more nor less than Edmund Kean." His first appearance on the stage was accordingly made, and... | |
 | Jacob Larwood - Actors - 1882 - 346 pages
...little gestures, most anxious to be chosen as the little god of love. I chose him, and little did I then imagine that my little Cupid would eventually become...after this period, felt a regard for me, from the circumstances of my having preferred him to the other children. I consider my having been the means... | |
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Before the piece was brought out, I had a number of children brought to me, that I might choose a cupid. One struck me, with a fine pair of black eyes, who seemed by his looks and little gestures... 
