"Nell Gwynn" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... out one of his hasty compilations, a "History of the Stage," repaired, like all the world, to Oldys, whose kindness could not resist the importunity of this busy publisher, he gave him a life of Nell Gwynn; while at the same moment Oldys could not avoid noticing, in one of his usual entries, an intended work on the stage, which we seem never to have had, "Dick Leveridge's History of the Stage and Actors in his own Time, ...
— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 (of 3) • Isaac D'Israeli |
