The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings: Or, Biographical Review, 7. köideVernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1811 |
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... performed suc- cessively at those of Ghent and Dunkirk , from whence she was advanced to the Royal Academy of Music ... perform with her colleague Dubois , notwithstanding the re- peated clamour of the pit , caused her to be sent to Fort ...
... performed suc- cessively at those of Ghent and Dunkirk , from whence she was advanced to the Royal Academy of Music ... perform with her colleague Dubois , notwithstanding the re- peated clamour of the pit , caused her to be sent to Fort ...
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... performed was Don Felix in the Wonder , in which he even sur- passed himself . According to custom he was desirous of addressing the audience , but his feelings were too much affected ; -his tears were the only expression of his ...
... performed was Don Felix in the Wonder , in which he even sur- passed himself . According to custom he was desirous of addressing the audience , but his feelings were too much affected ; -his tears were the only expression of his ...
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... perform his part better at Drury Lane than at Westminster . Mr. Garrick was hospitable and generous , but very vain and fond of flattery . He wrote several dramatic pieces , prologues , epilogues , songs , and epigrams ; in the last he ...
... perform his part better at Drury Lane than at Westminster . Mr. Garrick was hospitable and generous , but very vain and fond of flattery . He wrote several dramatic pieces , prologues , epilogues , songs , and epigrams ; in the last he ...
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... perform- ance , as a painter , was a representation of the Wan- stead assembly , the portraits being taken from life . In 1730 he married a daughter of Sir James Thornhill . A few years afterwards , appeared his Harlot's Progress , the ...
... perform- ance , as a painter , was a representation of the Wan- stead assembly , the portraits being taken from life . In 1730 he married a daughter of Sir James Thornhill . A few years afterwards , appeared his Harlot's Progress , the ...
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... performed the duties of that conspi- cuous station , for little more than a year , he renounced all public business ; and , in 1769 , returned to Edin- burgh , where he spent the remainder of his life , in the centre of his family and ...
... performed the duties of that conspi- cuous station , for little more than a year , he renounced all public business ; and , in 1769 , returned to Edin- burgh , where he spent the remainder of his life , in the centre of his family and ...
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