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. 1841 edition. Excerpt: ...his first appearance upon any stage, would sustain the character of the melancholy prince. The evening arrived, and the Garden was crowded. All the boys of the trade in the town assembled to witness the debut of a brother chip, and many came because others were coming. Winkins, in a blue military frock ...
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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. 1841 edition. Excerpt: ...his first appearance upon any stage, would sustain the character of the melancholy prince. The evening arrived, and the Garden was crowded. All the boys of the trade in the town assembled to witness the debut of a brother chip, and many came because others were coming. Winkins, in a blue military frock buttoned to the chin, white pantaloons strapped under the foot, and gesticulating with a shining black hat with white lining, borrowed expressly for the occasion, had chanted " My love is like the red, red rose" with immense applause, when the curtain rang up, and the third act began. The tedious prattle of those who preceded him being over, Theodosius Spoon appeared. Solemnly, yet with parched lips and a beating heart, did he advance to the footlights, and duck his acknowledgments for the applause which greeted him. His abord, however, did not impress his audience favourably. The black attire but ill became his short squab figure, and the " hintellectual tragicality of his legs," meandering their brief extent like a Malay creese, gave him the aspect of an Ethiopian Bacchus dismounted from his barrel. Hamlet resembled thc briefest kind of sweep, or " an erect black tadpole taking snuff." With' a fidelity to nature never surpassed, Hamlet expressed his dismay by scratching his head, and, with his eyes fixed upon his toes, commenced the soliloquy, --another beautiful conception, -for the prince is supposed to be speaking to himself, and his toes are as well entitled to be addressed as any other portion of his personal identity. This, however, was not appreciated by the spectators, who were unable to hear any part of the confidential communication going on between Hamlet and his extremities. " Louder, ...
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Poor. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. 192pp. Paper overed boards, paper spine label. Cover is worn and stained, spine label half chipped away, contents foxed, waterstaining to last few pages, I pencil scribbling to endpapers, former owner's name on front endpapers, contents are complete and all is readable.
