Plain English |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 19
Page 2
... interest in his affairs . The soap - boiler in the City and the Govern- ment clerk at the West - end have no mis- giving as to their power of directing his faltering footsteps . Sixty newspapers , more or less , seem to be written ...
... interest in his affairs . The soap - boiler in the City and the Govern- ment clerk at the West - end have no mis- giving as to their power of directing his faltering footsteps . Sixty newspapers , more or less , seem to be written ...
Page 25
... interest -a principle which probably governs the universe . The director of the Comédie Française the director of ... interests of art which are thought to be best served The Pit . 25.
... interest -a principle which probably governs the universe . The director of the Comédie Française the director of ... interests of art which are thought to be best served The Pit . 25.
Page 26
John Hollingshead. interests of art which are thought to be best served by giving as much variety as possible . My friend , Mr. Irving , followed with a policy which some of the journals were good enough to say he had copied from me , of ...
John Hollingshead. interests of art which are thought to be best served by giving as much variety as possible . My friend , Mr. Irving , followed with a policy which some of the journals were good enough to say he had copied from me , of ...
Page 27
... interests . The only shadow of an excuse for this out- break of theatrical protectionism was the comfortable character of the lost pit . In one of the worst - constructed houses ever built , it was the one place where all those who were ...
... interests . The only shadow of an excuse for this out- break of theatrical protectionism was the comfortable character of the lost pit . In one of the worst - constructed houses ever built , it was the one place where all those who were ...
Page 39
... interest in profits . If it were the custom of managers in thriving times to call their company together and distribute bonuses or double salaries on the score of the general prosperity , there might then be some justification , in a ...
... interest in profits . If it were the custom of managers in thriving times to call their company together and distribute bonuses or double salaries on the score of the general prosperity , there might then be some justification , in a ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
absurd Academy Notes actors ALFRED CONCANEN amusing Anecdotes appeared Artists BESANT and JAMES BRET HARTE building called Carnival Charles Mathews Charley chimney City cloth extra cloth gilt cloth limp Coloured Covent Garden Crown 8vo dancing Davenant patents Demy 8vo dress-coat Drury Lane Edendale Edited engagement England English Essay Facsimile fifty French Frontispiece Gaiety Theatre gilt edges History illustrated boards JAMES PAYN JAMES RICE Joblochskoff journal JUSTIN MCCARTHY Killigrew lady license little Truffles London theatre look Lord Chamberlain LYNN LINTON MACQUOID magistrates ment MOYR SMITH music-halls mysterious nearly never night NOVEL numerous Illustrations OUIDA patent theatres person piece play Poems popular Portrait Post 8vo profusely Illustrated proprietors Prose Queen Radical waiter Royal Shakespeare Small 8vo Square 8vo stage Stories Théâtre Français theatrical manager THOMAS tion told town umbrella Vols volume week WILKIE COLLINS WILLIAM WILLIAM HURRELL MALLOCK young Electro-plater
Popular passages
Page 10 - The illustrations of this volume . . . are of quite sterling and admirable art, of a class precisely parallel in elevation to the character of the tales which they illustrate; and the original etchings, as I have before said in the Appendix to my
Page 13 - Hook's (Theodore) Choice Humorous Works, including his Ludicrous Adventures, Bons-mots, Puns, and Hoaxes; With a new Life of the Author, Portraits, Facsimiles, and Illustrations. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, js.
Page 3 - Imperial 4to, cloth extra, gilt and gilt edges, 2is. per volume. Beautiful Pictures by British Artists : A Gathering of Favourites from our Picture Galleries. In Two Series. The FIRST SERIES including Examples by WILKIE, CONSTABLE, TURNER, MULREADY, LANDSEER, MACLISE, EM WARD, FRITH, Sir JOHN GILBERT, LESLIE, ANSDELL, MARCUS STONE, Sir NOEL. PATON, FAED, EYRE CROWE, GAVIN O'NEIL, and MADOX BROWN.
Page 9 - Tobacco : Its History and Associations ; with an Account of the Plant and its Manufacture, and its Modes of Use in all Ages and Countries. By F. W. FAIRHOLT, FSA With Coloured Frontispiece and upwards of 100 Illustrations by the Author. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, js.
Page 19 - Works. Now First Collected. Complete in Three Vols. Vol. I. contains the Plays complete, including the doubtful ones; Vol. II. the Poems and Minor Translations, with an Introductory Essay by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE.
Page 25 - Our Place among Infinities: A Series of Essays contrasting our Little Abode in Space and Time with the Infinities Around us.
Page 5 - More Worlds than One. The Creed of the Philosopher and the Hope of the Christian.
Page 30 - Thackerayana : Notes and Anecdotes. Illustrated by a profusion of Sketches by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY, depicting Humorous Incidents in his School-life, and Favourite Characters in the books of his everyday reading. With Hundreds of Wood Engravings, facsimiled from Mr.
Page 8 - Emanuel.— On Diamonds and Precious Stones ; their History, Value, and Properties ; with Simple Tests for ascertaining their Reality. By HARRY EMANUEL, FRGS With numerous Illustrations, Tinted and Plain. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, with Illustrations, 7s.
Page 29 - Syntax's (Dr.) Three Tours: In Search of the Picturesque, in Search of Consolation, and in Search of a Wife. With the whole of ROWLANDSON'S droll page Illustrations in Colours and a Life of the Author by JC HOTTEN.