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Belles, Beaux and Brains of the 60's

Thomas Cooper De Leon

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Description:This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ...exception is his daughter, Ellen Swan Dobbin, who was made an especial paragraph of Dobbin was.doubtless proud of that anthem; but she had even better reason to be proud of the praiseful prose she heard of her sons the elder, Dr. George W. Dobbin, being at the head of his surgical branch in Baltimore; and his brother Robert winning golden opinions as secretary of that city's United Sureties. But, at the closing of the last year, pride was replaced by mourning in all these homes; the tender, helpful mother having been called from them; leaving her husband lone and desolate. I am chatting of "The Rivals" with the glibness of senility, but it was one of the greatest social successes of its time, and a dramatic one, in real view. Some of the characters must needs be touched upon more briefly, in view of recent and detailed description by a pen too trained and facile for mine to cross. And when its keenness of Saladin's scimitar is wielded by one of the players herself the mace of any would-be Richard must make dullest thud indeed. Mrs. Malaprop in the mouth of Mrs. Clem Clay, now the brilliant and still young-hearted widow of Judge David Clopton, could have evoked but one comment. I only dare to add that it was as congenial and as true to her conception of it as was her other congenial one, when I saw her as Mrs. Partington, at the Gwin costume ball, at Washington. She has herself written minutite of the great and star-sought role, which were impossible to any other not so intimate with them. Mrs. Clopton has told us, too, of the rollicking and funny part Major R. W. Brown, a gallant North Carolinian on General Winder's staff, made of Sir Lucius 0'Trigger, the role that stands as unmossed epitaph for Sothern, rare John Brougham and "Dolly" D...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Belles, Beaux and Brains of the 60's. To get started finding Belles, Beaux and Brains of the 60's, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 126

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Release: 2012

ISBN: 1150335882

Description: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ...exception is his daughter, Ellen Swan Dobbin, who was made an especial paragraph of Dobbin was.doubtless proud of that anthem; but she had even better reason to be proud of the praiseful prose she heard of her sons the elder, Dr. George W. Dobbin, being at the head of his surgical branch in Baltimore; and his brother Robert winning golden opinions as secretary of that city's United Sureties. But, at the closing of the last year, pride was replaced by mourning in all these homes; the tender, helpful mother having been called from them; leaving her husband lone and desolate. I am chatting of "The Rivals" with the glibness of senility, but it was one of the greatest social successes of its time, and a dramatic one, in real view. Some of the characters must needs be touched upon more briefly, in view of recent and detailed description by a pen too trained and facile for mine to cross. And when its keenness of Saladin's scimitar is wielded by one of the players herself the mace of any would-be Richard must make dullest thud indeed. Mrs. Malaprop in the mouth of Mrs. Clem Clay, now the brilliant and still young-hearted widow of Judge David Clopton, could have evoked but one comment. I only dare to add that it was as congenial and as true to her conception of it as was her other congenial one, when I saw her as Mrs. Partington, at the Gwin costume ball, at Washington. She has herself written minutite of the great and star-sought role, which were impossible to any other not so intimate with them. Mrs. Clopton has told us, too, of the rollicking and funny part Major R. W. Brown, a gallant North Carolinian on General Winder's staff, made of Sir Lucius 0'Trigger, the role that stands as unmossed epitaph for Sothern, rare John Brougham and "Dolly" D...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Belles, Beaux and Brains of the 60's. To get started finding Belles, Beaux and Brains of the 60's, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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