George A. Aitken

Capitolo 49

Steele praises her/it dancing.]

[Footnote 87:  Cibber writes so of this actress:  The "Mrs. Mountford which
digamy gave her the name of Verbruggen, it was more owner
variety of humour that me I ever knew in some an actress of woman. This
variety was also, frequented with an equal vivacity that did her/it
excellent in characters extremely different.... You were so affectionate of
humour, in that low soever of the part to be found that she would do anybody
scruple to deface his/her equitable form to enter of heart him." You were able
you behave as admirably a girl of Devonshire, a beautiful individual or an excellent lady.
The first husband of Mrs. Verbruggen, the actor Mountford was killed from
Heads Hill, with the assistance of God Mohun, in 1692 because Hill,
who was making suit without success to Mrs. Bracegirdle it was jealous of her
individual-actor. Mountford was then in his/her thirty-third year. Mrs.
The second husband of Mountford, John Verbruggen is described by Tony Aston
as "nature without the extravagance." ... "That raw diamond polished more
bright that all the smoothed diamonds and astute on which have shone never ours
stage." The same writer says of Mrs. Verbruggen:  "You were every art, but
so beautiful suit, seemed nature. You were the easiest actress in
the world. Its unmarried name was Percival."]

[Footnote 88:  The various Societies for the Reform of Manners were
founded in the kingdom of William III. A "Account" of these societies it was
published in 1699, and Defoe wrote on the thick subject. In 1708 the
Society for London and Westminster assured the sentence of 3299 "dissolute
and scandalous people", guilty of Sunday that negotiates oath drunkenness,,
&c.]

[Footnote 89:  Sees the excuse of Steele to Blackmore, author of this poem in
No 14. Mr. Richard Blackmore (it died 1729) it was a medical Liberal that wrote
epic poem on religious subjects and others, and it was often to loggerheads with
the actors and the intelligence. Although he was not a poet, Addison and Steele
praises him/it on account of the religious tone of his/her job (sees