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" With respect to the extravagance of actors, as a traditional character, it is not to be wondered at. They live from hand to mouth ; they plunge from want into luxury ; they have no means of making money breed ; and all professions that do not live by... "
The life of Edmund Kean [by B.W. Procter]. - Página xxxviii
por Bryan Waller Procter - 1835
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Criticisms and Dramatic Essays of the English Stage

William Hazlitt - 1854 - 358 páginas
...cherished by -our virtues." With x\ _ ' respect to the extravagance of actors, as a traditional Jy< , .. character, it is not to be wondered at. They live...luxury ; they have no means of making money breed}.. • .._ . and all professions that do not live by turning money ~" into money, or have not a certainty...
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The Round Table. Northcote's Conversations. Characteristics

William Hazlitt, William Carew Hazlitt - 1871 - 592 páginas
...our faults whipped them not ; and our vices would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues." With respect to the extravagance of actors, as a traditional character, it is not to be wondered at. They relieved from by her engagement to half a score visits, which she swims from him to make, with a promise...
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The Round Table. Northcote's Conversations. Characteristics

William Hazlitt, William Carew Hazlitt - 1871 - 582 páginas
...our faults whipped them not ; and our vices would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues." With respect to the extravagance of actors, as a traditional character, it is not to be wondered at. They relieved from by her engagement to half a seore visits, which she eirirna from him to make, with a...
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The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: The Round table. Characters of ...

William Hazlitt - 1902 - 570 páginas
...our faults whipped them not : and our vices would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.' With respect to the extravagance of actors, as a traditional...live from hand to mouth : they plunge from want into honourable lover. Here now, one would think she might naturally shew a little of the sex's decent reserve,...
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The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: The Round table. Characters of ...

William Hazlitt - 1902 - 510 páginas
...vices would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.' With respect to the extrava\/ gance of actors, as a traditional character, it is not to...live from hand to mouth : they plunge from want into honourable lover. Here now, one would think she might naturally shew a little of the sex's decent reserve,...
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The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Lectures on the English comic ...

William Hazlitt - 1903 - 624 páginas
...our vices whipped them not, and our faults would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.' With respect to the extravagance of actors, as a traditional...want into luxury ; they have no means of making money treed, and all professions that do not live by turning money into money, or have not a certainty of...
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Dickens, Novel Reading, and the Victorian Popular Theatre

Deborah Vlock - 1998 - 248 páginas
...property, although that claim has been disputed by a few contemporary critics.32 In 1817, Hazlitt wrote "they live from hand to mouth; they plunge from want into luxury; they have no means of making money breed."33 Early modern depictions of acting, in art, literary, and social documents, even in drama,...
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New Writings of William Hazlitt, Volumen1

William Hazlitt - 2007 - 1143 páginas
...of income; indeed, Hazlitt's comments on the acting profession would apply equally well to himself: 'They live from hand to mouth: they plunge from want...accumulating it in the end by parsimony, spend it' (Wu ii. 156). The appointment as parliamentary reporter for the Chronicle, made between 4 and 10 October...
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