The Actor's Budget of Wit and Merriment: Consisting of Monologues, Prologues, Epilogues, Tales, Comic Songs, Rare and Genuine Theatrical Anecdotes and Jests |
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... MAID OF THE MOOR ; OR , LORD HOPPERGOLLOP'S COOK MAID AND THE GARDENER'S GHOST . A Comic , Burlesque - poetic , Mock - terrific Tale . SELECTED AND ABRIDGED FROM COLMAN'S BROAD GRINS . On a wild moor all brown and bleak , Where broods ...
... MAID OF THE MOOR ; OR , LORD HOPPERGOLLOP'S COOK MAID AND THE GARDENER'S GHOST . A Comic , Burlesque - poetic , Mock - terrific Tale . SELECTED AND ABRIDGED FROM COLMAN'S BROAD GRINS . On a wild moor all brown and bleak , Where broods ...
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... MAID . In the summer of 1806 , as Mrs. Hitchcock's servant - maid , of Crow - street theatre , Dublin , was following her mistress on a car to Cork , where she had gone a few days before to join Mr. Daly's company , she was surrounded ...
... MAID . In the summer of 1806 , as Mrs. Hitchcock's servant - maid , of Crow - street theatre , Dublin , was following her mistress on a car to Cork , where she had gone a few days before to join Mr. Daly's company , she was surrounded ...
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... Maid's Song.-Dr. Last . To celebrate these deeds , Which are from no false shamlet , Every village small , Henceforth was call'd a Hamlet . Toorol , & c . THE OLD MAID'S SONG . Extatic lovely pangs that beat within my breast , Ah cease ...
... Maid's Song.-Dr. Last . To celebrate these deeds , Which are from no false shamlet , Every village small , Henceforth was call'd a Hamlet . Toorol , & c . THE OLD MAID'S SONG . Extatic lovely pangs that beat within my breast , Ah cease ...
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Address on Closing a Theatre | 14 |
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