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... with in light comedies. To ask for heaviness in any tragic English actor, appears to us like asking for black- ness in a blackberry, or sweetuess in a sugar-plum. But perhaps this heavy man may be wanted to give weight t0 the characters he personates. ...

Published: Thursday 12 May 1870
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1801 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

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... with in light comedies. To ask for a heaviness in any tragic English actor, appears to us _ like asking for blackness in a blackberry, or sweetness -- in a sugar-plum. But perhaps this heavy man may be wanted to give weight to the characters he personates ...

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... of these children, playing the street, dabbling in the gutter, from those of children that have the fields roam in, and blackberries the hedgerows! The of have great influence oyer the whole life. n1 children the poor farm labourer brought •r really rural ...