An Apology for the Life of George Anne Bellamy: Late of Covent-garden Theatreauthor, and sold, 1786 |
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... playing upon the harp , the fa- vourite inftrument of the Welch . And the dit- ties they played seemed to fuit the gloomy tem- perature of my mind . When I arrived at Conway- Ferry , the wind was so high , that it was impracti- cable to ...
... playing upon the harp , the fa- vourite inftrument of the Welch . And the dit- ties they played seemed to fuit the gloomy tem- perature of my mind . When I arrived at Conway- Ferry , the wind was so high , that it was impracti- cable to ...
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... plays , which would enable him to pay the per- formers . For not one of them was regularly paid but myself , though by what means he expended his money I could not imagine . As I went one day as ufual to the rehearsal , I observed a ...
... plays , which would enable him to pay the per- formers . For not one of them was regularly paid but myself , though by what means he expended his money I could not imagine . As I went one day as ufual to the rehearsal , I observed a ...
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... never fo graced before . Mrs. Ufher had been obliged to read my part . As foon as the play was over , Mr. Moffop came to me . And I was vaftly apprehensive that he would would have caned Coates . This was what the man 16 THE LIFE OF.
... never fo graced before . Mrs. Ufher had been obliged to read my part . As foon as the play was over , Mr. Moffop came to me . And I was vaftly apprehensive that he would would have caned Coates . This was what the man 16 THE LIFE OF.
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... playing that night . " Every thing , " continued he , " is fair , " " where interefts clash . " When Mr. Digges found me in this fituation , he was like a distracted man . His firft business was to give a most severe chastisement to ...
... playing that night . " Every thing , " continued he , " is fair , " " where interefts clash . " When Mr. Digges found me in this fituation , he was like a distracted man . His firft business was to give a most severe chastisement to ...
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... plays of Shakfpere . And in order to prevent the principal 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 re ...
... plays of Shakfpere . And in order to prevent the principal 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 re ...
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acquainted advertiſement affiftance affured againſt Alderman anfwer appearance bufinefs buſineſs Calcraft caufe cauſe chaife circumftance Colman conclufion confent confequence confiderable Cracroft creditor debt defired Digges engagement expence faid falutation fame favour feemed fent fervant ferve fettled feven fhall fhew fhort fhould figned fince firft firſt fituation fome foon friendſhip ftill fuccefs fuch fummer fuppofed fure furprized gentleman GEORGE ANNE BELLAMY greateſt herſelf himſelf honour houfe houſe hundred pounds informed JOHN CALCRAFT juft juſt lady laſt letter likewife lofs Lord Lord Granby Lordſhip Metham Mifs Wordley moft moſt muſt myſelf neceffary never notwithſtanding obferving obliged occafion paffed perfon performer play pleaſed pleaſure poffeffed poffible prevented promiſe proprietors purpoſe racter reafon received refidence refuſed requeſted Scotland ſee ſeemed ſhe Sir George ſome ſtage theatre thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe tion told ufual uſe vifit whilft whofe whoſe woman Woodward
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Strana 3 - tis slander; Whose edge is sharper than the sword ; whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile; whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world : kings, queens, and states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave This viperous slander enters.
Strana 18 - Ah me! for aught that ever I could read. Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth: But, either it was different in blood; Her.
Strana 18 - Or, if there were a fympathy in choice, War, death, or ficknefs did lay fiege to it ; 'Making it momentary as a found, Swift as a fhadow, fhort as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, .
Strana 152 - Tis thou, thrice sweet and gracious goddess, addressing myself to LIBERTY, whom all in public or in private worship, whose taste is grateful, and ever will be so, till NATURE herself shall change no tint of words can spot thy snowy mantle...
Strana 68 - Glasgow, told his auditors that he dreamed the preceding night he was in the infernal regions, at a grand entertainment, where all the devils...
Strana 173 - I wondered any gentleman who profefled liberal fentiments could advife a breach of truft. He told me that, if he had got hold of it, he would have burnt it, as he was fure two capital performers had figned it, who would not have done fo, had another paper been preferrted in their favour.
Strana 126 - Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key, As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds Had been incorporate. So we grew together Like to a double cherry, seeming parted But yet an union in partition, Two lovely berries moulded on one stem...
Strana 9 - Fashion to yourself the idea of a little dirty creature, bent nearly double, enfeebled by fatigue, her countenance tinged with the jaundice, and in every respect the reverse of a person who could make the least pretensions to beauty.
Strana 72 - I had prevailed upon a gentleman, who was poffefled of fome talents, to compile a little piece from the celebrated poem of Offian ; and I appeared in the character of Commela, there, with great fuccefs. But at Glafgow the applaufe I received was beyond all bounds. This little piece alone, tacked to any indifferent comedy, would fill the houfe, fo that it was crowded every night ;' which tended greatly to relieve me from the fatigue I daily underwent, not only from the duties of my profeffion, but...