An Apology for the Life of George Anne Bellamy: Late of Covent-Garden Theatre. Written by Herself. To which is Annexed, Her Original Letter to John Calcraft, ... The Third Edition. In Five Volumes. ...author, and sold, 1785 |
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... playing upon the harp , the favourite inftrument of the Welch . And the ditties they played feemed to fuit the gloomy temperature of my mind . When I arrived at Conway Ferry , the wind was fo high , that it was impracticable to go over ...
... playing upon the harp , the favourite inftrument of the Welch . And the ditties they played feemed to fuit the gloomy temperature of my mind . When I arrived at Conway Ferry , the wind was fo high , that it was impracticable to go over ...
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... plays , which would enable him to pay the performers . For not one of them was regularly paid but myfelf , though by what means he expended his money I could not imagine . As I went one day as ufual to the rehearsal , I obferved a mean ...
... plays , which would enable him to pay the performers . For not one of them was regularly paid but myfelf , though by what means he expended his money I could not imagine . As I went one day as ufual to the rehearsal , I obferved a mean ...
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... play was over , Mr. Moffop came to me . And I was vaftly ap- prehenfive that he would have caned Coates . This was what the man feemed to wifh , for fuch a vulgar impertinent I never heard be- fore . He had the impudence to tell us ...
... play was over , Mr. Moffop came to me . And I was vaftly ap- prehenfive that he would have caned Coates . This was what the man feemed to wifh , for fuch a vulgar impertinent I never heard be- fore . He had the impudence to tell us ...
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... playing that night . " Every thing , " continued he , " is fair , where interefts clafh . " When Mr. Digges found me in this fitua- tion , he was like a distracted man . His firft bufinefs was to give a moft fevere chaftife- ment to ...
... playing that night . " Every thing , " continued he , " is fair , where interefts clafh . " When Mr. Digges found me in this fitua- tion , he was like a distracted man . His firft bufinefs was to give a moft fevere chaftife- ment to ...
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... plays of Shak- fpere . And in order to prevent the princi pal performers from refufing to appear in the proceffion , he propofed walking in it himself , as Queen's Chamberlain . Unfortu nately , however , he was taken ill at the laft ...
... plays of Shak- fpere . And in order to prevent the princi pal performers from refufing to appear in the proceffion , he propofed walking in it himself , as Queen's Chamberlain . Unfortu nately , however , he was taken ill at the laft ...
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acquainted advertiſement affured againſt Alderman anfwer appear apprehenfion befides beſt bufinefs Calcraft caufe cauſe chaife circumftance Colman confent confequence Cracroft creditor debt defired Digges diſcharge Edinburgh engagement expences faid falutation fame favour feemed fent fervant ferve fettled feven fhall fhew fhort fhould fign fince firft firſt fitors fituation fome foon fooner fore friendſhip ftage ftill fubject fuccefs fuch fuffer fuit fummer fuppofed fupport fure gentleman GEORGE ANNE BELLAMY greateſt herſelf himſelf honour houfe houſe hundred pounds informed intereft JOHN CALCRAFT juft lady laft leaſt letter likewife lofs London Lord Lord Granby Metham Mifs Wordley moft moſt muft muſt myſelf neceffary never notwithſtanding obferved obliged occafion paffed perfon performer pleaſed pleaſure poffeffed poffible prefent promife purpoſe racter reafon received refidence requeſted Scotland ſhe Sir George theatre thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe told ufual uſe vifit whilft whofe Woodward
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Page 148 - ... advertifement, Mr. Calcraft had been at his houfe, vowing vengeance againft the theatre, if I did not promife to give up all 'thoughts of fuch a publication ; which, he faid, was at once putting a dagger into his heart, and a piftol to his head.