Helen Faucit: Fire and Ice on the Victorian StageSociety for Theatre Research, 2000 - 416 pages |
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... window , and her frantic gaze into the night gloom , as well as the mute inquiry with which she examines Tresham's empty scabbard , were conceived with a finely poetic spirit , and executed with a finely artistic • power . 9958 On 24 ...
... window , and her frantic gaze into the night gloom , as well as the mute inquiry with which she examines Tresham's empty scabbard , were conceived with a finely poetic spirit , and executed with a finely artistic • power . 9958 On 24 ...
Page 264
... windows and saw , with particular interest , the room where Sir Theodore had written the biography of Prince Albert . After tea , everyone except the Queen and her hostess went out through the drawing - room window to the terrace ...
... windows and saw , with particular interest , the room where Sir Theodore had written the biography of Prince Albert . After tea , everyone except the Queen and her hostess went out through the drawing - room window to the terrace ...
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... window to the hills , with their autumn foliage . At night she would lie awake , with nothing to distract her from her pain , and remember how even as a child she had suffered from insomnia . “ What a long sleep is owing to me ! " she ...
... window to the hills , with their autumn foliage . At night she would lie awake , with nothing to distract her from her pain , and remember how even as a child she had suffered from insomnia . “ What a long sleep is owing to me ! " she ...
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