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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839 Excerpt: ...showed great musical talents, and became a favourite pupil of Purcell. Colley Cibber, having accidentally heard her perform on the harpsichord, fell in love with her, and married her, when he himself was only two-and-twenty, and she still younger. At that time, as Cibber tells us, he had no other income than twenty pounds a year allowed him by his father, and twenty shillings a week from the theatre. The marriage having taken place without tho consent of the lady's father, he refused to do any thing for them: upon this Mrs. Cibber betook herself to the stage; and, after having distinguished herself as a singer, became an actress of the highest celebrity. Miss Cross was an eminent actress, especially in musical parts. She performed the character of Altisidora, in the third part of Don Quixote, in which sho sang the song, "From rosy bowers." Miss Campion was a young woman of low birth, but, unhappily for herself, possessed a beautiful person and a fine voice. William, the first Duke of Devonshire, then an old man, took her off the stage, and.made her his mistress. She died in 17t6, in her nineteenth year; and the duke buried her in the church of Latimers, in Buckinghamshire, the burial-place of his family. In the chancel of that church he erected a monument for ber, on which there is a Latin inscription, importing that she was wise beyond her years, and bountiful to the poor even beyond her abilities; and, at the theatre, where she had some time acted, modest and untainted; that being seized with a hectic fever, she had submitted to her fate with a firm confidence and Christian piety; and that William, Duke of Devonshire, had, upon ber bi loved remains, erected that tomb as sacred to her memory. This ostentatious proof of attachment to an object of ...
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