"Polly Peachum": Being the Story of Lavinia Fenton (duchess of Bolton) and "The Beggar's Opera"S. Paul & Company, 1913 - 382 pages |
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... Woffington as a child - Did she play Polly or Macheath ? -Peggy and Garrick surprised- Rich removes to Covent Garden — Colley Cibber tries to rival The Beggar's Opera with Love in a Riddle - Its failure - Cibber's explanation CHAPTER ...
... Woffington as a child - Did she play Polly or Macheath ? -Peggy and Garrick surprised- Rich removes to Covent Garden — Colley Cibber tries to rival The Beggar's Opera with Love in a Riddle - Its failure - Cibber's explanation CHAPTER ...
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... WOFFINGTON • 144 From an engraving by H. R. Cook , after Peter van Bleek , in Mr. A. M. Broadley's Collection . KITTY CLIVE · · 152 From an engraving by W. Greatbach , after G. P. Harding . THE STAGE AT COVENT GARDEN , cir . 1770 From ...
... WOFFINGTON • 144 From an engraving by H. R. Cook , after Peter van Bleek , in Mr. A. M. Broadley's Collection . KITTY CLIVE · · 152 From an engraving by W. Greatbach , after G. P. Harding . THE STAGE AT COVENT GARDEN , cir . 1770 From ...
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... Woffington , Mrs. Cibber , Ann Catley , Mrs. Oldfield , Mrs. Bellamy and Mrs. Billington , had the privilege of reading more or less fictitious and scurrilous accounts of their lives , and nothing followed . The practice was continued ...
... Woffington , Mrs. Cibber , Ann Catley , Mrs. Oldfield , Mrs. Bellamy and Mrs. Billington , had the privilege of reading more or less fictitious and scurrilous accounts of their lives , and nothing followed . The practice was continued ...
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... Woffington , who accord- ing to Tate Wilkinson " had a most unpleasant speaking pipe , " was an Orange woman to the Play- house , and Ryan was - a razor grinder ! Garrick and Woodward were also caricatured . 66 Ryan must have had not ...
... Woffington , who accord- ing to Tate Wilkinson " had a most unpleasant speaking pipe , " was an Orange woman to the Play- house , and Ryan was - a razor grinder ! Garrick and Woodward were also caricatured . 66 Ryan must have had not ...
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... Street in the City of London the 11th day of the 6th Month 1728. " Other scribbling admirers are neither so sprightly nor so decorous . Of three verses entitled " The PEG WOFFINGTON . Amorous Lover " printed on a single 144 POLLY PEACHUM.
... Street in the City of London the 11th day of the 6th Month 1728. " Other scribbling admirers are neither so sprightly nor so decorous . Of three verses entitled " The PEG WOFFINGTON . Amorous Lover " printed on a single 144 POLLY PEACHUM.
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Page 145 - twould a saint provoke," (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke ;} " No, let a charming chintz and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead — And — Betty — give this cheek a little red.
Page 16 - they are to enter towards the end of the first act, and to fly about the stage.
Page 13 - I told him that it affected me to such a degree, as often to agitate my nerves painfully, producing in my mind alternate sensations of pathetic dejection, so that I was ready to shed tears ; and of daring resolution, so that I was inclined to rush into the thickest part of the battle. " Sir," said he, " I should never hear it, if it made me such a fool.
Page 152 - If the talent of ridicule were employed to laugh men out of vice and folly, it might be of some use to the world ; but instead of this, we find that it is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking every thing that is solemn and serious, decent and praiseworthy in human life.
Page 211 - Prentice making Holiday with his Sweetheart treated her with a sight of Bedlam, the Puppet-shews, the Flying chairs, and all the Elegancies of Moorfields...
Page 21 - I have introduced the similes that are in all your celebrated operas : the Swallow, the Moth, the Bee, the Ship, the Flower, &c. Besides, I have a prison scene, which the ladies always reckon charmingly pathetic. As to the parts, I have observed such a nice impartiality to our two ladies, that it is impossible for either of them to take offence.
Page 161 - The play, like many others, was plainly written only to divert, without any moral purpose, and is therefore not likely to do good ; nor can it be conceived, without more speculation than life requires or admits, to be productive of much evil. Highwaymen and house-breakers seldom frequent the play-house, or mingle in any elegant diversion ; nor is it possible for any one to imagine that he may rob with safety, because he sees MACHEATH reprieved upon the stage.
Page 106 - A lazy dog! When I took him the time before, I told him what he would come to if he did not mend his hand. This is death without reprieve. I may venture to book him. (writes.) For Tom Gagg, forty pounds.
Page 86 - We were all at the first night of it, in great uncertainty of the event; till we were very much encouraged by overhearing the Duke of Argyle, who sat in the next box to us, say, 'it will do — it must do! — I see it in the eyes of them!
Page 5 - There is a passage in Bede, highly commending the piety and learning of the Irish in that age, where after abundance of praises he overthrows them all, by lamenting that, alas ! they kept Easter at a wrong time of the year. So our Doctor has every quality and virtue that can make a man amiable or useful ; but alas ! he hath a sort of slouch in his walk ! I pray God protect him, for he is an excellent Christian, though not a Catholic.