Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
WE have lately made the acquaintance of an old lady of ninety, who has passed the last twenty-five years of her old life in a great metropolitan establishment, the workhouse, namely, of the parish of Saint Lazarus. Stay—twenty-three or four years ago, she came out once, and th...
WE have lately made the acquaintance of an old lady of ninety, who has passed the last twenty-five years of her old life in a great metropolitan establishment, the workhouse, na...
2. Chapter 2But what is most certain and lamentable is the decay of stage beauty since the days of George IV. Think of Sontag! I remember her in _Otello_ and the _Donna del Lago_ in ’28. I...
3. Chapter 3“Harlequin Conqueror and the Field of Hastings,” at the other house, is very pleasant too. The irascible William is acted with great vigour by Snoxall, and the battle of Hasting...