The British Essayists: The LoungerJ. Richardson, 1823 |
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... play - Remarks of the colonel on the entertainment and the audience • 7. The regrets of him who has thrown away domestic happiness in frivolous dissi- pation ; in a letter from Lucilius Mackenzie Abercromby Mackenzie Cullen Mackenzie ...
... play - Remarks of the colonel on the entertainment and the audience • 7. The regrets of him who has thrown away domestic happiness in frivolous dissi- pation ; in a letter from Lucilius Mackenzie Abercromby Mackenzie Cullen Mackenzie ...
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... player who frets , and scolds , and is angry : the looker - on sees more errors in the play ; but he applies them only to the theory of the game , and thinks but little of the party who commits them . As a Lounger , I had from my ...
... player who frets , and scolds , and is angry : the looker - on sees more errors in the play ; but he applies them only to the theory of the game , and thinks but little of the party who commits them . As a Lounger , I had from my ...
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... play . It is often so with me at public places : I am more employed in attending to the spectators than to the entertainment ; a practice which , in the present state of some of our entertain- ments , I frequently find very convenient ...
... play . It is often so with me at public places : I am more employed in attending to the spectators than to the entertainment ; a practice which , in the present state of some of our entertain- ments , I frequently find very convenient ...
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... plays and concerts , near half a century ago . He was , ' continued my friend , a professed admirer and votary of the sex ; and when he was a young man fought three duels for the honour of the ladies , in one of which he was run through ...
... plays and concerts , near half a century ago . He was , ' continued my friend , a professed admirer and votary of the sex ; and when he was a young man fought three duels for the honour of the ladies , in one of which he was run through ...
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... play has it . Why , that young man , sir , -now that I have observed him closer , -with that roll of handkerchief about his neck , his square- cut striped vest , his large metal buttons and nankeen breeches , -Why , sir , ' tis a stable ...
... play has it . Why , that young man , sir , -now that I have observed him closer , -with that roll of handkerchief about his neck , his square- cut striped vest , his large metal buttons and nankeen breeches , -Why , sir , ' tis a stable ...
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