Oliver Goldsmith: a BiographyG. Routledge, 1850 - 213 pages |
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... Colman ---- - Letter to Garrick - - Croaking of the manager Naming of the play " She Stoops to Conquer " - Foote's primitive puppetshow , " Piety on Pattens " First performance of the comedy - Agitation of the author Success Colman ...
... Colman ---- - Letter to Garrick - - Croaking of the manager Naming of the play " She Stoops to Conquer " - Foote's primitive puppetshow , " Piety on Pattens " First performance of the comedy - Agitation of the author Success Colman ...
Page 162
... Colman and Garrick , and suggested by Hogarth's inimitable pictures of " Marriage - à - la - Mode , " had taken the town by storm , crowded the theatre with fashionable audiences , and formed one of the leading literary topics of the ...
... Colman and Garrick , and suggested by Hogarth's inimitable pictures of " Marriage - à - la - Mode , " had taken the town by storm , crowded the theatre with fashionable audiences , and formed one of the leading literary topics of the ...
Page 180
... Colman and Garrick , in the course of their joint authorship of " The Clandestine Marriage , " the former had become manager and part proprietor of Covent Garden , and was preparing to open a power- ful competition with his former ...
... Colman and Garrick , in the course of their joint authorship of " The Clandestine Marriage , " the former had become manager and part proprietor of Covent Garden , and was preparing to open a power- ful competition with his former ...
Page 186
... Colman , and it is intimated that one condition in the treaty of peace between these potentates of the realms of pasteboard ( equally prone to play into each other's hands with the confederate potentates on the great theatre of life ) ...
... Colman , and it is intimated that one condition in the treaty of peace between these potentates of the realms of pasteboard ( equally prone to play into each other's hands with the confederate potentates on the great theatre of life ) ...
Page 187
... Colman's hopes in the piece declined at each rehearsal ; as to his fellow- proprietors , they declared they had never entertained any . All the actors were discontented with their parts , excepting Ned Shuter , an excellent low comedian ...
... Colman's hopes in the piece declined at each rehearsal ; as to his fellow- proprietors , they declared they had never entertained any . All the actors were discontented with their parts , excepting Ned Shuter , an excellent low comedian ...
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