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Page xii
... play - ground , and flogged as a dunce in the school - room . When he had risen to emi- nence , those who had once derided him , ransacked their memory for the events of his early years , and recited repartees and couplets which had ...
... play - ground , and flogged as a dunce in the school - room . When he had risen to emi- nence , those who had once derided him , ransacked their memory for the events of his early years , and recited repartees and couplets which had ...
Page xiii
... play the flute , to angle in summer , and to tell ghost stories by the fire in winter . He tried five or six professions in turn without success . He applied for ordination ; but , as he applied in scarlet clothes , he was speedily ...
... play the flute , to angle in summer , and to tell ghost stories by the fire in winter . He tried five or six professions in turn without success . He applied for ordination ; but , as he applied in scarlet clothes , he was speedily ...
Page xiv
... playing tunes which everywhere set the peasantry dancing , and which often procured for him a supper and a bed . He wandered as far as Italy . His musical perform- ances , indeed , were not to the taste of the Italians ; but he ...
... playing tunes which everywhere set the peasantry dancing , and which often procured for him a supper and a bed . He wandered as far as Italy . His musical perform- ances , indeed , were not to the taste of the Italians ; but he ...
Page xv
... player ; but his face and figure were ill suited to the boards even of the humblest theatre . He pounded drugs , and ran about London with phials for charitable chemists . He joined a swarm of beggars , which made its nest in Axe Yard ...
... player ; but his face and figure were ill suited to the boards even of the humblest theatre . He pounded drugs , and ran about London with phials for charitable chemists . He joined a swarm of beggars , which made its nest in Axe Yard ...
Page xxii
... play , entitled False Delicacy , had just had an immense run . Sentimentality was all the mode . During some years , more tears were shed at comedies than at tragedies ; and a pleasantry which moved the audience to any thing more than a ...
... play , entitled False Delicacy , had just had an immense run . Sentimentality was all the mode . During some years , more tears were shed at comedies than at tragedies ; and a pleasantry which moved the audience to any thing more than a ...
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