Identifier: portraitsmemoirs03caul (find matches)
Title: Portraits, memoirs, and characters, of remarkable persons, from the revolution in 1688 to the end of the reign of George II. Collected from the most authentic accounts extant
Year: 1820 (1820s)
Authors: Caulfield, James, 1764-1826
Subjects: Great Britain -- Biography
Publisher: London, T. H. Whitely
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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to flie PlayLoiLse in Dublin. J GEORGE ii.) REMARKABLE PERSONS. 215 PORTER TO THE PLAY-HOUSE IN DUBLIN. With look ferocious, and with beer replete,See crazy Crow beneath his minstrel weight,His voice as frightful as great ./Etnas roar,(Which spreads its horrors to the distant shore,)Equally hideous with his well-known faceMurders each ear till whisky makes it cease. CROW was one of those appendages to the theatrethat are constantly in requisition to carry messages,light fires, and render themselves useful to the ma-nager,prompter, and the performers in general; and,notwithstanding his dissonant voice, and ferociousaspect, he contrived to keep his post, and gain acomfortable livelihood; independent of a regularsalary, he, from time to time, picked up considerablesums of money by messages, and carrying to andfrom the theatre the instruments of the musicians. He is represented in the print with a violin inhis right hand, a trumpet in his left, a French-hornround his neck, a bass-viol on

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