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Updated: June 8, 2025
A shirt-collar, three gloves, a boot, a shoe, and half a slipper; a silk stocking, and a pair of worsted muffetees; three old play-bills rolled into a ball; a pencil-case, a paper-knife, a tooth-powder-box without a lid, and a superannuated black-beetle trap turned bottom upwards, assisted in forming part of the heterogeneous collection of rubbish strewed about the studio floor.
A common fellow, a carpenter, who, on the strength of political partisanship, asked B 's assistance in cutting out great letters from play-bills in order to print "Martin Van Buren Forever" on a flag; but B refused.
At the upper end of the room, were a couple of boys, one of them very tall and the other very short, both dressed as sailors or at least as theatrical sailors, with belts, buckles, pigtails, and pistols complete fighting what is called in play-bills a terrific combat, with two of those short broad-swords with basket hilts which are commonly used at our minor theatres.
The play-bills announced the tragedy of "Romeo and Juliet." I was to be the hero, and four days were allowed me to prepare myself. The whole of that time was passed in the company of Eugenia, who, while she gave me unequivocal proofs of attachment, admitted of no freedom. The day of rehearsal arrived, I was found perfect, and loudly applauded by the company.
'The same on all the play-bills. 'The Fifteenth is cancelled. 'We meet the day after. 'At the house of Count M. to-night. He secreted this missive, and wrote Vittoria's name on numbers of slips to divers addresses, heading them, 'From the Pope's Mouth, such being the title of the Revolutionary postoffice, to whatsoever spot it might in prudence shift.
After tea the library became empty suddenly of all the young people. My aunt Mary, my brother Lovell, and I remaining with Quin, who had dined here, talking on, never missed them; and the surprise was as great as heart could wish when my mother put into our hands the play-bills, and invited us to follow her to her dressing-room. A Tragedy, in Two Acts. Caesar Moilliet.
The famous drawing of "Jack carving the name on the beam," which has been transferred to half the play-bills in town, is overloaded with accessories, as the first plate; but they are much better arranged than in the last-named engraving, and do not injure the effect of the principal figure.
We often make life unhappy in wishing things to have turned out otherwise than they did, merely because that is possible to the imagination, which is impossible in fact. Mr. H , thou wert damned! Bright shone the morning on the play-bills that announced thy appearance, and the streets were filled with the buzz of persons asking one another if they would go to see Mr.
It was nearly a month after that, when Ned and Nancy, in presence of Father Deleery, opened the packet, and. discovered, not the half-year's rent of Lord Non-Resident's estate, but a large sheaf of play-bills packed up together their guest having been the identical person to whom Ned affirmed he bore so strong a resemblance.
Meditating awhile, Barto wrote out Vittoria's name and enclosed it in a thick black ring. Beneath it he wrote 'The same on all the play-bills. 'The Fifteenth is cancelled. 'We meet the day after. 'At the house of Count M. to-night.
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