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... Antigone - Sir Frederic Burton and De Quincy on her Antigone - Enthusiasm in Dublin society - Address and presentation of fibula - Reappearance in Edinburgh and Glasgow - First visit to Manchester 133 145 CHAPTER IX . Reappears in ...
... Antigone - Sir Frederic Burton and De Quincy on her Antigone - Enthusiasm in Dublin society - Address and presentation of fibula - Reappearance in Edinburgh and Glasgow - First visit to Manchester 133 145 CHAPTER IX . Reappears in ...
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... ANTIGONE From a drawing by Sir Frederic Burton . BRYNTYSILIO FROM THE GARDEN LADY MARTIN , 1881 From a drawing by Miss Annette Elias . Frontispiece To face p . 50 !! 152 " 1 306 " 372 LIFE OF HELENA FAUCIT ( LADY MARTIN ) . CHAPTER.
... ANTIGONE From a drawing by Sir Frederic Burton . BRYNTYSILIO FROM THE GARDEN LADY MARTIN , 1881 From a drawing by Miss Annette Elias . Frontispiece To face p . 50 !! 152 " 1 306 " 372 LIFE OF HELENA FAUCIT ( LADY MARTIN ) . CHAPTER.
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... Antigone with me at Covent Garden , and , if I approve the part , he is to get it up in good style for me this will give me hard work . " What she saw of the Covent Garden performance made her decide to undertake Antigone . Her studies ...
... Antigone with me at Covent Garden , and , if I approve the part , he is to get it up in good style for me this will give me hard work . " What she saw of the Covent Garden performance made her decide to undertake Antigone . Her studies ...
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... considered applause , will not be enamoured of the acting of Miss Faucit ; but the judicious few , made kin the world over by " one touch of Nature , " will bow down in 148 APPEARS AS ANTIGONE . [ 1845 . homage before.
... considered applause , will not be enamoured of the acting of Miss Faucit ; but the judicious few , made kin the world over by " one touch of Nature , " will bow down in 148 APPEARS AS ANTIGONE . [ 1845 . homage before.
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... Antigone ( February 23 ) the whole literary ability of Dublin seems to have been called into play , to tell how the grandest of the female characters of Sophocles had been brought visibly before them , and had shown , to use George ...
... Antigone ( February 23 ) the whole literary ability of Dublin seems to have been called into play , to tell how the grandest of the female characters of Sophocles had been brought visibly before them , and had shown , to use George ...
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