 | SEVERAL HANDS - 1762 - 538 pages
...produced this deftruclive change in this Gentleman: No. I am well informed, that he came a ruin-? ed man into the management of the Theatre; and that he...once amiable young Gentleman happened at a period of univcrfaj havock ; when a noble perfonage of the firft rank and fortune in England, and his companion,... | |
 | Percy Fitzgerald - 1882 - 484 pages
...with the rest if he had not found it of constant use to him in his business with the world. The sudden ruin of this once amiable young gentleman happened at a period of universal havock ; when a noble personage of the first rank and fortune in England, and his companion,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1882 - 544 pages
...£5,000 a year in gaming. Victor says of him, in his History of the Theatre (vol. i, 36): "The sudden ruin of this once amiable young gentleman happened at a period of universal havoc, when a noble personage of the first mile and fortune, and his companion, a baronet... | |
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England, and his companion, a baronet of 12,O00Z. a year, were surrounded and destroyed by a set of honourable sharpers. Mr. Fleetwood unfortunately fell into this set, and received great injury in his fortune before he had time... 