The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners: With Strictures on Their Epitome, the Stage ..., 10. köideproprietors, 1800 |
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... seasons , as that unrivalled tragic actress has done , even with better assistance than those who have acted with her . She , alone , acted for several winters , against the opera , and what is still more , against the fasionable hours ...
... seasons , as that unrivalled tragic actress has done , even with better assistance than those who have acted with her . She , alone , acted for several winters , against the opera , and what is still more , against the fasionable hours ...
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... season . In the entire line from Portmouth to Brigh- ton the crops are good beyond all precedent . A man of the name of Shirt , last week , at Sheffield , în attempting to swallow a piece of gristle , so lacerated his throat , that he ...
... season . In the entire line from Portmouth to Brigh- ton the crops are good beyond all precedent . A man of the name of Shirt , last week , at Sheffield , în attempting to swallow a piece of gristle , so lacerated his throat , that he ...
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... season . Four years afterwards Mrs. Gibbs was engaged by the late Mr. John Palmer , her godfather , to perform at the Royalty theatre : her first appearance was in Miss in her Teens , she played the part of Biddy . Her reception was so ...
... season . Four years afterwards Mrs. Gibbs was engaged by the late Mr. John Palmer , her godfather , to perform at the Royalty theatre : her first appearance was in Miss in her Teens , she played the part of Biddy . Her reception was so ...
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... seasons past , played the part of Polly , & c . at Covent - Garden theatre . Not- withstanding some disparity in point of age , Mr. Cramer , and his now justly disconsolate widow , lived in the mutual participation of domestic felicity ...
... seasons past , played the part of Polly , & c . at Covent - Garden theatre . Not- withstanding some disparity in point of age , Mr. Cramer , and his now justly disconsolate widow , lived in the mutual participation of domestic felicity ...
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... season . 14. - WHAT A BLUNDER ! -A new comic opera , from the ready and elegant pen of Mr. Holman , was produced on this evening , and received with the most unbounded and unanimous applause , FABLE . The scene lies in Valencia , Count ...
... season . 14. - WHAT A BLUNDER ! -A new comic opera , from the ready and elegant pen of Mr. Holman , was produced on this evening , and received with the most unbounded and unanimous applause , FABLE . The scene lies in Valencia , Count ...
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