The Port Folio, Volumes 1-2Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1806 |
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Page 19
... observed even in drun- kenness . Garrick being asked by a French actor , how he liked his perfor- mance in a certain ... observation : -your left foot was per- ble was the conception of this inimitable " fectly sober all the time . " So ...
... observed even in drun- kenness . Garrick being asked by a French actor , how he liked his perfor- mance in a certain ... observation : -your left foot was per- ble was the conception of this inimitable " fectly sober all the time . " So ...
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... observed , is the true language of nature ; and we scarcely ever find a performer who pays a pro- per attention to it . Provided he remem- ber his cue , and stand not in need of the prompter's aid , he conceives he has done his duty to ...
... observed , is the true language of nature ; and we scarcely ever find a performer who pays a pro- per attention to it . Provided he remem- ber his cue , and stand not in need of the prompter's aid , he conceives he has done his duty to ...
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... observed of him , as of John Picus Mirandula , that " he was rather born wise , than made so by stu- dy . " He continued three years at Oxford , but declined taking his first degree , by the advice of his relations , who , being of the ...
... observed of him , as of John Picus Mirandula , that " he was rather born wise , than made so by stu- dy . " He continued three years at Oxford , but declined taking his first degree , by the advice of his relations , who , being of the ...
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... observed of him is a late number we find that , in a recent so true , that his sickness is all counted collection of engravings from antique till for policy , that he will not come up the public distractions force somebody gems , occurs ...
... observed of him is a late number we find that , in a recent so true , that his sickness is all counted collection of engravings from antique till for policy , that he will not come up the public distractions force somebody gems , occurs ...
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... observed , indeed , a nasal twang which he formerly had not ; and which we are inclined to attribute to some temporary obstruction of the olfactory organs . His return to our boards was cheered by the reiterated plaudits of a select ...
... observed , indeed , a nasal twang which he formerly had not ; and which we are inclined to attribute to some temporary obstruction of the olfactory organs . His return to our boards was cheered by the reiterated plaudits of a select ...
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