Oliver Goldsmith: A BiographyGeorge Routledge & Company, 1850 - 208 pages This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. |
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Page xiii
... Colman - Croaking of the manager - - - Naming of the play -- Letter to Garrick " She Stoops to Conquer " . - Foote's primitive puppetshow , " Piety on Pattens " First performance of the comedy - Agitation of the author- Success Colman ...
... Colman - Croaking of the manager - - - Naming of the play -- Letter to Garrick " 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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