| Thomas Holcroft - 1816 - 324 pages
...flourishing a condition as to place the manager beyond the reach of the immediate smiles or frowns of fortune. Of this the following anecdote may be cited...seems, so accommodating as in the present day, and the extremeyouth of the performer disposed the gallery to noise and uproar instead of admiration. Their... | |
| 1825 - 338 pages
...flourishing a condition as to place the manager beyond the reach of the immediate smiles or frowns of fortune. Of this, the following anecdote may be cited...the audience was not, it seems, so accommodating as ia the present day ; and the extreme youth of the performer disposed the gallery to noise and uproar,... | |
| John Galt - 1831 - 324 pages
...premature glimpse which Mrs. Siddons, then a child, afforded of her powers that yet lurked in the germ. A benefit had been fixed for some of the family, in which she was to perform some juvenile part. The taste of the audience rebelled at her extreme youth, the... | |
| Thomas Holcroft - 1852 - 336 pages
...flourishing a condition as to place the manager beyond the reach of the immediate smiles or frowns of fortune. Of this the following anecdote may be cited...had been fixed for some of the family, in which Miss KemLle, then a little girl, was to come forward in some part, as a juvenile prodigy. The taste of the... | |
| George Morley (of Leamington, Eng.) - 1895 - 202 pages
...flourishing a condition as to place the manager beyond the immediate reach of the smiles or frowns of fortune. Of this the following anecdote may be cited...of the performer disposed the gallery to noise and disorder, instead of approbation. Their turbulent dissatisfaction quite disconcerted the child, and... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1902 - 464 pages
...flourishing a condition as to place the manager beyond the reach of the immediate smiles or frowns of fortune. Of this the following anecdote may be cited...disposed the gallery to noise and uproar instead of admiration. Their turbulent dissatisfaction quite disconcerted the child, and she was retiring bashfully... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1902 - 468 pages
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| Thomas Holcroft, William Hazlitt - 1816 - 424 pages
...flourishing a condition as to place the manager beyond the reach of the immediate smiles or frowns of fortune. Of this the following anecdote may be cited...disposed the gallery to noise and uproar instead of admiration. Their turbulent dissatisfaction quite disconcerted the child, and she was retiring bashfully... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1932 - 330 pages
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| Roger Manvell - 1970 - 442 pages
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