 | Colley Cibber - 1822 - 564 trang
...plays might be fit for his bed. buted, not a little, to make her the cara, the darling of the theatre ; for it will be no extravagant thing to say, scarce...a suspected favourite among them : and though she might be said to have been the universal passion, and under the highest temptations, her constancy... | |
 | 1826 - 362 trang
...character. This discretion contributed not a little to make her the cara, the darling of the theatre : for it will be no extravagant thing to say, scarce...a suspected favourite among them : and though she might be said to have been the universal passion, and under the highest temptations, her constancy... | |
 | Colley Cibber - 1826 - 358 trang
...character. This discretion contributed not a little to make her the cara, the darling of the theatre : for it will be no extravagant thing to say, scarce...a suspected favourite among them : and though she might be said to have been the universal passion, and under the highest temptations, her constancy... | |
 | William Wycherley, Leigh Hunt - 1840 - 782 trang
...character. This discretion contributed not a little to make her the cara, the darling of the theatre : for it will be no extravagant thing to say, scarce...a suspected favourite among them ; and though she might be said to have been the universal passion, and under the highest temptations, her constancy... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1873 - 936 trang
...pretend to" — Cibl>er seems to think her, as Benedick did Hero, "too brown for a failpraise " — " scarce an audience saw her that were less than half of them lovers, without a suspected favorite." Congreveand Howe, it was hinted, made their private court to her through the lovers of their... | |
 | William Wycherley - 1875 - 770 trang
...character. This discretion contributed not a little to make her the cara, the darling of the theatre : n to your foolish love-motions, than to offers of...JKRRY. Free. Nay, widow, but hear me one word only. might be said to have been the universal passion, and under the highest temptations, her constancy... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1885 - 434 trang
...was any woman in such general favour of the spectators. . . . She was the darling of the theatre ; for it will be no extravagant thing to say, scarce...been the universal passion, and under the highest temptations, her constancy in resisting them served but to increase her admirers. It was even the fashion... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1885 - 440 trang
...; and though she may be said to have been the universal passion, and under the highest temptations, her constancy in resisting them served but to increase her admirers. It was even the fashion among the gay and young to have a taste or tendre for Mrs. Bracegirdle." It was the fashion,... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1886 - 418 trang
...was any woman in such general favour of the spectators. . . . She was the darling of the theatre ; for it will be no extravagant thing to say, scarce...been the universal passion, and under the highest temptations, her constancy in resisting them served but to increase her admirers. It was even the fashion... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1888 - 214 trang
...character. This discretion contributed not a little to make her the cara, the darling of the theatre ; for it will be no extravagant thing to say, scarce...a suspected favourite among them ; and though she might be said to have been the universal passion, and under the strongest temptations, her constancy... | |
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... scarce an audience saw her that were less than half of them lovers... 
