Helena Faucit (Lady Martin)W. Blackwood, 1900 - 416 páginas |
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... kind but busy people at Brighton , who , finding her happy with her books on the beach , left her there long hours by herself . She had begged from home an acting edition of Shakespeare by John Kemble . How dear was this book and the ...
... kind but busy people at Brighton , who , finding her happy with her books on the beach , left her there long hours by herself . She had begged from home an acting edition of Shakespeare by John Kemble . How dear was this book and the ...
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... kind hand was withdrawn which had lain in mine so heavily , and yet looked so thin and small . I did not then know how great is the weight of weakness . It was put upon my head , and I was bid God - speed ! I was to be sent for some day ...
... kind hand was withdrawn which had lain in mine so heavily , and yet looked so thin and small . I did not then know how great is the weight of weakness . It was put upon my head , and I was bid God - speed ! I was to be sent for some day ...
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... kind . How these brought to my mind that interview - the frail figure which seemed buried in furs , the large eyes so intense in their lustre , the dark hair straggling over the forehead , the voice coming from so far away , and the kind ...
... kind . How these brought to my mind that interview - the frail figure which seemed buried in furs , the large eyes so intense in their lustre , the dark hair straggling over the forehead , the voice coming from so far away , and the kind ...
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... kind people in my dressing - room , and wondering what this meant . Our good family doctor from London was among the audience , and bound up the wounded hand . This never occurred again , because they ever afterwards gave me a wooden ...
... kind people in my dressing - room , and wondering what this meant . Our good family doctor from London was among the audience , and bound up the wounded hand . This never occurred again , because they ever afterwards gave me a wooden ...
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... kind Miss Taylor was to me ; she was the Helen of that evening , as she had been the original Helen of the play . At the rehearsals she had given me valuable advice as to the stage directions , & c . , and during the actual per ...
... kind Miss Taylor was to me ; she was the Helen of that evening , as she had been the original Helen of the play . At the rehearsals she had given me valuable advice as to the stage directions , & c . , and during the actual per ...
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Página 25 - Lectures (or 1898. By the Rev. THOMAS NICOL, DD, Professor of Divinity and Biblical Criticism in the University of Aberdeen; Author of ' Recent Explorations in Bible Lands.