Memoirs of Mrs. Lætitia BoothbyWilliam Clark Russell H.S. King, 1872 - 322 стор. |
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... procured the piece to be hissed off before the middle of the fourth act . Mr. Boothby , however , was more fortunate with the booksellers , from whom he received fifty guineas for his play ; yet not before he had struggled hard for the ...
... procured the piece to be hissed off before the middle of the fourth act . Mr. Boothby , however , was more fortunate with the booksellers , from whom he received fifty guineas for his play ; yet not before he had struggled hard for the ...
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... procure a nobler burial than a pauper's shell . One night in the year 1747 , Mr. Boothby attended the play at the Little Theatre in the Haymarket , on the occasion of the appearance there of an actress whose merits he had heard loudly ...
... procure a nobler burial than a pauper's shell . One night in the year 1747 , Mr. Boothby attended the play at the Little Theatre in the Haymarket , on the occasion of the appearance there of an actress whose merits he had heard loudly ...
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... procure their union at the hands of one of the Fleet parsons , a body of disreputable men who , in those days , drove a flourishing trade by consenting to marry persons without the formality of those inquiries which our Church imposes ...
... procure their union at the hands of one of the Fleet parsons , a body of disreputable men who , in those days , drove a flourishing trade by consenting to marry persons without the formality of those inquiries which our Church imposes ...
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... procured me an husband , had I occupied an handsome residence instead of small and squalid lodgings ; but Mr. Boothby rightly judged that should any of the young sparks that took notice of me , get to know the meanness of our condition ...
... procured me an husband , had I occupied an handsome residence instead of small and squalid lodgings ; but Mr. Boothby rightly judged that should any of the young sparks that took notice of me , get to know the meanness of our condition ...
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... insignificant occasion at which we sneer , proves the instrument by which our good is procured . When I was in my twenty - first year , there befell Mr. Boothby an accident of which I am to give a particular account ; for though I was not.
... insignificant occasion at which we sneer , proves the instrument by which our good is procured . When I was in my twenty - first year , there befell Mr. Boothby an accident of which I am to give a particular account ; for though I was not.
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