Memoirs of Richard Cumberland, Volume 1Lackington, Allen, & Company, 1807 - 432 pages |
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Page 23
... play at hide - and - seek with the public.- There was a mysterious air of consequence in his private establishment of a domestic printing press , that seemed to augur great things , but performed little . Walpole was already an au- thor ...
... play at hide - and - seek with the public.- There was a mysterious air of consequence in his private establishment of a domestic printing press , that seemed to augur great things , but performed little . Walpole was already an au- thor ...
Page 43
... played his game of back - gammon , af- ter which he came in gaiety of heart to evening- school for one hour only . It was a gala day for all the boys , and for me in particular , as I was sure on all those occasions to be ordered up to ...
... played his game of back - gammon , af- ter which he came in gaiety of heart to evening- school for one hour only . It was a gala day for all the boys , and for me in particular , as I was sure on all those occasions to be ordered up to ...
Page 46
... play of Te- rence before the Christmas holidays , after the example of Westminster , some of us undertook without his leave , though probably not without his knowledge and connivance , to get up the tragedy of Cato at one of the ...
... play of Te- rence before the Christmas holidays , after the example of Westminster , some of us undertook without his leave , though probably not without his knowledge and connivance , to get up the tragedy of Cato at one of the ...
Page 54
... plays of Shakespear , whom she both admired and understood in the true spirit and sense of the author . Under her instruction I became passionately fond of these our evening enter- tainments ; in the mean time she was attentive to model ...
... plays of Shakespear , whom she both admired and understood in the true spirit and sense of the author . Under her instruction I became passionately fond of these our evening enter- tainments ; in the mean time she was attentive to model ...
Page 80
... play , where for the first time in my life I was treated with the sight of Garrick in the character of Lothario ; Quin played Horatio , Ryan Altamont , Mrs. Cibber Calista and Mrs. Pritchard condescended to the hum- ble part of Lavinia ...
... play , where for the first time in my life I was treated with the sight of Garrick in the character of Lothario ; Quin played Horatio , Ryan Altamont , Mrs. Cibber Calista and Mrs. Pritchard condescended to the hum- ble part of Lavinia ...
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