 | English literature - 1842 - 590 pages
...neighbourhood of the theatre. There, about the private stage-door, he would linger day after day, watching the players (great and happy people they !) as they...would sit, his eyes devouring every motion — his ears every syllable — nay, often getting so absorbed and lost, as, by joining with his own voice... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1842 - 566 pages
...neighbourhood of the theatre. There, about the private stage-door, he would linger day after day, watching the players (great and happy people they!) as they...far aloft, he would sit, his eyes devouring every motion—his ears every syllable—nay, often getting so absorbed and lost, as, by joining with his... | |
 | Robert Douglas - Medical students - 1848 - 350 pages
...neighborhood of the theatre. There, about the private stage-door, he would linger day after day, watching the players (great and happy people they !) as they...far aloft, he would sit, his eyes devouring every motion—his ears every syllable—nay, often getting so absorbed and lost, as, by joining with his... | |
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His chief resort in the town was the neighbourhood of the theatre. There, about the private stage-door, he would linger day after day, watching the players (great and happy people they !) as they went to, or returned from rehearsal, and making conjectures,... 