 | Eaton Stannard Barrett - 1807 - 602 sayfa
...followers stigmatized as incorrigible rogues and vagabonds. Possessed of a considerable share of ribaldry, obscenity, and dissoluteness of manners, this harlequin...mountebank father was indulged by some few of the depraved gentry of the age with an admission into their society as a hired jester, in which capacity he moved... | |
 | James Morwood, David Crane - 1995 - 226 sayfa
...election combined many of these symbols in attacking Sheridan as the 'Son of an obscure Irish Player . . . this Harlequin Son of a Mountebank Father was indulged...calculated to stimulate their already too luxuriant debauchery'33 (cf. Plate 12). Such statements reveal the tension between love of theatre and resentment... | |
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The Son of an obscure Irish Player, a profession formerly proscribed by our laws; and its followers by various statutes stigmatized as incorrigible rogues and vagabonds. — Possessed of a considerable portion of ribaldry, disgusting obscenity, and dissoluteness... 