The chronicles of crime; or, The new Newgate calendar, being a series of memoirs and anecdotes of notorious characters who have outraged the laws of Great Britain from the earliest period to 1841 . who were just then busily intent upon the performances of a neigh-bouring juggler, whose comic grimaces and fantastic gambols they greatlyadmired. Under these circumstances, the solemn pomp and tragic splen-dour of Bucks stage, paraded as it was by heroes of herculean proportionsand stentorian voices, and by heroines of matchless grace and disdainfulbeauty, lost its powers of attraction—it did not d
The chronicles of crime; or, The new Newgate calendar, being a series of memoirs and anecdotes of notorious characters who have outraged the laws of Great Britain from the earliest period to 1841 . who were just then busily intent upon the performances of a neigh-bouring juggler, whose comic grimaces and fantastic gambols they greatlyadmired. Under these circumstances, the solemn pomp and tragic splen-dour of Bucks stage, paraded as it was by heroes of herculean proportionsand stentorian voices, and by heroines of matchless grace and disdainfulbeauty, lost its powers of attraction—it did not draw an audience,—andit was necessary, for many reasons, that an audience should be gingerbread baker, who, perhaps, had cause to take an interest in thefinances of the company, and who had frequently before, as was stated,enacted the part of one of the dramatis personcB of a lark, saw that thiswas the moment when a decisive blow ought to be struck to detach theadmiring crowd from the too successful juggler, and bring them to Buckstlieatre by the attractive influence of some novelty. He, therefore, witlilie best intentions towards Buck and his company, went up to a property. ^yf^.J/^S.
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