The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 131
. unwieldy. In conversation violent, positive, and impa-tient of contradiction. He was a zealous advocate fortruth, and for the Christian religion, as professed in theChurch of England. In politics he was a Tory, and atone period of his life a friend to the house of Stuart.He had a noble… … LE KAIN. After having tried his powers in an indifferent com-pany of comedians that occasionally performed dramaticrepresentations at the Hotel de Tonnerre, Le Kainmadehis debut at the Theatre Francais, in the character ofTitus, in the tragedy of Brutus, on the 14th September,1750. His performance,…
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