New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 5Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth Henry Colburn, 1822 |
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... English Ballad - singers : 211 212 Song Digressions in the two Exhibition Rooms The Miser's Will The Italian Opera Prince Carlos of Spain and his father Philip II . Song The Silent River ; a Dramatic Sketch The Last of the Pigtails ...
... English Ballad - singers : 211 212 Song Digressions in the two Exhibition Rooms The Miser's Will The Italian Opera Prince Carlos of Spain and his father Philip II . Song The Silent River ; a Dramatic Sketch The Last of the Pigtails ...
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... by whom they were expressed . He seemed to me competent to form some judgment of our distin- guished English actors ; for he understood our language , and even spoke it with propriety , although with a French intonation 14 Talma .
... by whom they were expressed . He seemed to me competent to form some judgment of our distin- guished English actors ; for he understood our language , and even spoke it with propriety , although with a French intonation 14 Talma .
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... English with such purity and ease , that she might readily have been mistaken for an English woman . Talma intimated a strong desire to play Hamlet in London . The idea had been originally suggested to him by Helen Maria Williams , into ...
... English with such purity and ease , that she might readily have been mistaken for an English woman . Talma intimated a strong desire to play Hamlet in London . The idea had been originally suggested to him by Helen Maria Williams , into ...
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... English stages , took occasion to observe upon the great advantages which they afforded to the actor , both from the strength and variety of the situations , and the unshackled freedom which they permitted him to enjoy in the indulgence ...
... English stages , took occasion to observe upon the great advantages which they afforded to the actor , both from the strength and variety of the situations , and the unshackled freedom which they permitted him to enjoy in the indulgence ...
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... English complete , And beef and plum - pudding you get if you choose , With young roasted - pig , which the French hate like Jews . Next morning with Pa to the Louvre I flew , The statues , and marbles , and sculptures to view . La ...
... English complete , And beef and plum - pudding you get if you choose , With young roasted - pig , which the French hate like Jews . Next morning with Pa to the Louvre I flew , The statues , and marbles , and sculptures to view . La ...
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