Lady Languid, the heroine of the scene, is beset by a croud of flutterers, but her admirers diminish in proportion to her ill success at Play. The scene is taken from high life, and is intended as a laudable exposure of those dames of Fashion, who in departing from the delicacy of their sex, commence Gamesters, involving by such conduct, not only their own characters in ruin, but that of others in this Vortex of fashionable depravity. Robinson, was performed at this Theatre on Saturday night. The effect of the Entertainment is a sort of weariness which the French call Ennui and which was so much felt by the audience, that a great part of it strongly opposed its being given out for a second representation.Ī New Farce, entitled, Nobody, written by Mrs. But non omnia possumus omnes the long and patient attention necessary to the developement of tender sentiment, seems to have unfitted her for the arrangement of farcical incidents. Robinson, in a peculiar style of poetry, has seised the sentimental palm to the attainment of which, the efforts of Della Crusca have been directed. Robinson, the reputed Authour of the present Entertainment, has chosen another species of character, which goes under the denomination of Nobody in High Life. On the first intimation of this production, we thought it referred to our old acquaintance at school the authour of all unfathered mischiefs and who, in our opinion, would have furnished laughable materials for a Frace. Saturday evening, a Farce called Nobody, was performed for the first time. (Saturday, November 29, to Tuesday, December 2, 1794) 4. James’s Chronicle or British Evening-Post Some of the poverty-stricken Men of Fashion actually eke out a miserable existence, in distributing among proper objects, Cards of Invitation from the Lady Gamblers! Goodall, Miss Pope, Miss Collins, Miss Heard, Miss De Camp, Mrs. To which will be added, for the First Time, a New Comedy in Two Acts, called
Her father is alive and she is not, as reported, a Ward in Chancery. Wallis is for three years, at eighteen pounds a week. Caligula made a Consul of his horse and our upstart Nobility will soon have the presumption to take front rows in the boxes for their lap-dogs.-Their puppies are already sufficiently troublesome!. is quite astonished that the swinish multitude should dare object to any thing that she may please to countenance. It is not unusual to see them on duty in the Playhouse Lobbies, with helmet, broad-sword, long spurs, whips, umbrellas, cross-belts, and cartouch-box!! Our Cavalry Associators of the present day, are as much encumbered as the heroes of Antiquity who wore armour. Whatever impropriety there might have been in introducing Miss Wallis into the Stage-Box after her performance of Imogen, certainly that young actress is to be excused, and it would be cruel should she suffer in the public estimation. Lord and Lady Malden are returned to town from Warley Camp.
Sporting Sketches During a Short Stay in Hindustane.British War Poetry in the Age of Romanticism 1793-1815.
New Letters from Charles Brown to Joseph Severn.The Letters of Robert Bloomfield and His Circle.Norse Romanticism: Themes in British Literature, 1760-1830.The Collected Letters of Robert Southey.Fables Ancient and Modern by Edward Baldwin, Esq.An Uninteresting Detail of a Journey to Rome.A Description of the Valley of Chamouni, in Savoy.The Collected Writings of Robert Bloomfield.Anna Letitia Barbauld Letters to Lydia Rickards, 1798–1815.James Boaden’s Assessment of Dorothy Jordan’s Performance as Nelly Primrose in Nobody (1831).Account of the Controversy Surrounding the Production and Staging of Nobody from the Memoirs of the Late Mrs.Mary Robinson’s Views on Gambling from 'Present State of the Manners, Society, &c.
The Link between Fashion and Gambling from Mary Robinson’s Modern Manners (1793) and 'The Gamester' (1800).Newspaper Commentaries, Poems, Puffs, and Reviews of Nobody (October-December 1794).
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