Memoirs of Richard Cumberland, Volume 1Lackington, Allen, & Company, 1807 - 432 pages |
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Page 80
... stage from the front row of the gallery , and my attention was rivetted to the scene . I have the spectacle even now as it were before my eyes . Quin presented himself upon the rising of the curtain in a green velvet coat . em ...
... stage from the front row of the gallery , and my attention was rivetted to the scene . I have the spectacle even now as it were before my eyes . Quin presented himself upon the rising of the curtain in a green velvet coat . em ...
Page 81
... stage , and pointing at the wittol Altamont and heavy - paced Horatio -heavens , what a transition ! -it seemed as if a whole century had been stept over in the transition of a single scene ; old things were done away , and a new order ...
... stage , and pointing at the wittol Altamont and heavy - paced Horatio -heavens , what a transition ! -it seemed as if a whole century had been stept over in the transition of a single scene ; old things were done away , and a new order ...
Page 169
... stage . I must however lament that it has lain by unlooked at for so great a length of time , as there have been intermediate periods of leisure when it would have been well worth my pains to have taken it up . It is now too late , and ...
... stage . I must however lament that it has lain by unlooked at for so great a length of time , as there have been intermediate periods of leisure when it would have been well worth my pains to have taken it up . It is now too late , and ...
Page 180
... stage of bodily decay . The ruins of that luminous and pow- erful mind were still venerable , though his speech was almost unintelligible , and his fea- tures cruelly disarranged and distorted by the palsey still his genius was alive ...
... stage of bodily decay . The ruins of that luminous and pow- erful mind were still venerable , though his speech was almost unintelligible , and his fea- tures cruelly disarranged and distorted by the palsey still his genius was alive ...
Page 186
... stage dress ; nevertheless it must be confessed this style , though out of date , was not out of character , but harmo- nized so well with the person of the wearer , that I remember when he made his first speech in the House of Peers as ...
... stage dress ; nevertheless it must be confessed this style , though out of date , was not out of character , but harmo- nized so well with the person of the wearer , that I remember when he made his first speech in the House of Peers as ...
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