Actors By Daylight PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838 edition. Excerpt: ...discernment, for though but little known, yet it is true, that if two madman, if their tempers are equal, will converse most fluently, though of course their disordered imaginationswill cause them to utter words signifying nothing. Cordelia. now learning of the barbarous treatment practised towards her father, full of filial feeling. resolves to search him out--if possible to save him, before the fell 'hand of death is laid on him; by the aid of Kent, her atfectionate design is completed; Cordelia rescues her father, and bears him in safety to the French 'camp. Afine scene follow_s, where the anxious daughter is breathlessly awaiting her father's recovery, --his first-words demonstrate that he is not yet restored to his right mind: Edward Arthur Sheldon Seguin, born in London on the 7th April, 1809, is son of the gentleman of that fname, many years connected with the fashionable amusements of the metropolis; he was intended for a public oflice, but man proposes and God disposes. Having studied music with that worthy old quiz, rendered notorious by C. Mathews' imitations of him, Mr. John Wynn, once the leader of several provincial theatres, one moming when in the concert-room of the opera he was amusing himself by singing and accompanying himself on a piano-forte, he happened to be overheard by Mr. Bochsa, the director of the Imusic of the King's Theatre and of the Royal Academy of Music. Liking his voice, he spoke to his father, and advised him to place him in the latter institution. Mr. Seguin spoke to Lord Burgesh, the chairman of the committee; 2. day was fixed, and young Edward went with his father to his lordship's residence, and there his voice was tried, Lady Burgesh with her usual condescension...