 | Liber - 1809 - 372 Seiten
...to it." The living was given to the meritorious applicant. Light Reading at Leisure Hours, p. 345. THE influence which an Irish jig holds over an Irish...borrowed from the Appendix of Mr Walker's interesting Memoirs of the Irish Bards. " The farce of the Half-Pay Officer having been brought out at Drury Lane... | |
 | Lady Lilly Grove Frazer - 1895 - 602 Seiten
...lively jig.1 The following anecdote, illustrative of this, is borrowed from the appendix of Mr. Watkin's interesting ' Memoir of the Irish Bards : ' The farce...the ' Half- Pay Officer ' having been brought out at Urury Lane Theatre, the part of an old grandmother was assigned to Mrs. Fryer, an Irishwoman, of the... | |
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Theatre, the part of an old Grandmother was assigned to Mrs. Fryer, an Irish woman, who had quitted the stage in the reign of Charles the Second, and... 